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October 1009
Housing News Archive
| Monday, October 26, 2009 | |||
South Florida homeowners walking away from underwater mortgages
Palm Beach Post
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Optimism about housing market worries some analysts
HeraldNet
“These results are surprising since the economy continues to shed jobs on a monthly basis and foreclosures continue to dominate the housing landscape,” ...
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Really? Housing crash painful for celebrities, too
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Author who predicted current crisis shows why it's 'only the beginning'
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| Fear of Further Driving Down Home Prices: Banks Slow to Foreclose Features.csmonitor.com |
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Housing prices decline nationally
Kansas City Business Journal
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Peter Schiff Warns About Dollar Collapse in November 2008; Down 14% Since
Subprime Blogger
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Housing Chief Rebuts Warning of FHA Bailout
Washington Post
... a multibillion-dollar taxpayer bailout in 24 to 36 months, an analysis that the agency's top official immediately dismissed as "completely unfounded. ...
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Chase Mortgage Memo Pushed 'Cheats & Tricks' To Get Liar Loans
The Business Insider
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| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | |||
| Don't subsidize the people who caused this mess!
The housing problem in America isn't that home prices are falling; it's that there are so many vacancies that prices must fall. Incomes did not rise as fast
Kill the wasteful home-buyer tax credit
MarketWatch
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| South Florida home prices to continue freefall
Bizjournals.com
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| Housing prices forecast to fall in 2010 -- and could keep falling for years
Daily Finance
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| Home values will plunge even more
MiamiHerald.com
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| No decision yet on homebuyer credit - Obama official
CNNMoney.com
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![]() Report: Real Estate Market Pulls Back from Recent Price Gains PR Web |
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| Where home prices aren't falling
Baltimore Sun
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| Brooklyn, New York, Home Prices Drop as Luxury Falls
Bloomberg
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| Obama Administration Moves to Ease Foreclosure Woes
News Channel 8
The Obama administration has unveiled a new plan to help low-income and first-time housing buyers. State housing agencies will be able to provide new ...
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| Houses: About to get much cheaper Finance.yahoo.com |
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| The Story Of 21 Year Old With The Underwater FHA Loan Is Even Worse Than You Think
The Business Insider
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| Waterboarding Ron Paul's Audit The Fed Bill
Liberty Maven
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| Shiller: Stocks are Overvalued; Worried about the Stock and Housing Markets
Subprime Blogger
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| Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 | |||
| Real Estate Bust Continues: Foreclosures Hit Worst 3 Months of all Time! Despite concerted government-led and lender-supported efforts to prevent foreclosures, the number of filings hit a record high in the third quarter, according to a report issued Thursday… “They were the worst three months of all time,” said Rick Sharga, spokesman for RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosed homes. “The worst three months of all time”
Hot Air
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| Sometimes, renting makes more sense
Asbury Park Press
With more foreclosures and huge inventories of unsold homes looming and mortgage rates held down by the government, the housing market may not stabilize for ...
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| More Trouble for Housing: Mounting Foreclosures
Kiplinger.com
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| California job losses keep climbing
Los Angeles Times
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| Stock & Housing Crash to Resume! Stocks may resume the free-fall they started in September 2008 and housing prices may crumble even more as job losses mount and credit markets seize. ... We're repeating the mistakes of 1930
InvestmentNews
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Feds help feed new market for easy mortgages
Loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) have become "the new subprime," and these loans are exposing taxpayers to the same kinds of ...
Washington Times |
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| The FHA Is A Looming Disaster Businessinsider.com |
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Housing Bust Crash's Nicolas Cages' Bank Account
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Real Estate Speculation Is Getting Scary Popular Again
The Business Insider
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California Bank Marks 99th Failure in 2009
DSNews.
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| Friday, October 16, 2009 | |||
Vegas Housing Bust Continues: Worst Foreclosures in Nation!
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| Foreclosures: 'Worst three months of all time' CNN.Money |
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Motor-City Madness: Homes for Less Than $10k
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Interactive map: foreclosure, unemployment rates and median household income by county
Gather.com
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United States Real Estate Confidence Index Dips 0.85% in September
RisMedia.com
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Homebuyers Overly Optimistic about Future Home ValuesThese results are surprising since the economy continues to shed jobs on a monthly basis and foreclosures continue to dominate the housing landscape. ...
United Press International
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Sinking home prices, lost jobs fuel rising bankruptcy rate in Florida
MiamiHerald.com
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America's Recession-Proof Cities To Retire In
Forbes
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Is commercial real estate next to fall?
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Feds should let housing market heal itself
They say that the $8000 tax credit helped them survive the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. While we understand their exuberance with the ...
Oshkosh Northwestern |
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More Home Price Declines Ahead: Prediction
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Fitch: Disaster Looms as 60 Percent of RMBS Mortgages are Underwater
... residential mortgage-backed securities are underwater, leaving the door open for a new round of securities write-downs for banks and other investors.
DSNews.com |
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Go Ahead, Walk Away From That Underwater Mortgage
CNBC
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| Housing Crash Delayed: Only To Resume in 2010! "I'm a firm prophet of the 'W' shaped recovery. Housing is going to go down again in the first quarter of 2010... Housing could take double dip down in 2010 Marketwatch.com |
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| Bank of America Announces Third-Quarter Net Loss of $1.0 Billion
Reuters
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| Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | |||
Home prices Begin Falling Again: Worse to Come
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Gloomy outlook from top mortgage pros
Los Angeles Times
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2/3 of Phoenix-area Housing Market Activity = Foreclosures or Foreclosure Resales
Arizona State
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New investors swoop on battered U.S. housing market
Reuters
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The Obama housing plan? Fail — at least so far
Reuters Blogs
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| Southern California Home Prices Fall on Foreclosures The median price dropped to $275,000 from $308,500 a year earlier... Bloomberg.com |
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Are Banks Trying to Re-inflate the Housing Bubble? Interest Only Loans Are Back!
The changes aren't similar to the “stated-income” lending popular during the housing boom that later created high defaults, she said; pay and employment ... jpmorgan Pitches Interest-Only Mortgages to Boost Obama Plan
Bloomberg
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| Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | |||
Housing Crash Has Not Been Stopped...Only Delayed |
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| Rising U.S. Vacancies: Real Estate Is Headed Down Seekingalpha.com |
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Bernie Madoff, housing bubble: Costume suggestions for a recession Halloween
WalletPop
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Americans Are Still Delusional About House Prices
Huffington Post
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Contemplating yet more aid for housing
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
How badly did the US housing market crash? Well, just look at how much federal aid it has taken to stabilize it, at least for now.
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Baltimore-area home prices fall even as sales go up
Daily Record
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FHA may be setting up repeat of housing bubble, lawmakers worry
Los Angeles Times
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Will Taxpayers Have to Bail Out the FHA?
Money Morning
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| Monday, October 12, 2009 | |||
Haunted House for Sale on Ebay
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Foreclosures Grow in Housing Market's Top Tiers
Wall Street Journal
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Housing recovery isn't as close to reality as some statistics suggest
Las Vegas Review - Journal
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Flood of foreclosure resales overshadows housing market
Arizona Republic
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U.S. housing risks still lurk even as buyers return
Reuters
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Leaving home loans behind
Washington Times
That trickle could become a flood as the likelihood recedes that home prices will soon return to their peak values, said Rick Sharga, senior vice president ...
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Delaying The Housing Bottom By Saving Mortgages
24/7 Wall St
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"Dr. Doom" predicts further drop in housing market
Examiner.com
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Failed Economic Policies and Rising Unemployment in the United States of America
Center for Research on Globalization
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| The FHA, VA, USDA Foreclosure Time Bomb Homedebtors.blogspot.com |
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| Thursday, October 8, 2009 | |||
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What Housing Rebound? Foreclosures Continue Climbing
Even as the US economy seems to be recovering from its worst recession since the Great Depression, mortgage delinquencies continue to rise. ...
Foreclosures mark pace of enduring US housing crisis Reuters |
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Forecast: CA home sales to be slow in 2010
abc7news.com
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Hear why this guy saw home-price crash coming
OCRegister
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U.S., Lenders Seek Ways to Head Off New Mortgage-Default Wave
Wall Street Journal
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Mortgage Crisis Shuffles Toward Fancier Neighborhoods
Forbes
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Banks urged to offer forbearance of mortgage loan payments for those who are unemployed
Examiner.com
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Ron Paul Calls for Delay to Bernanke Confirmation Hearing
Wall Street Journal
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Three Reasons Why The Stock Market is Doomed...
The Market Oracle
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Fannie and Freddie Delinquencies Move Into Uncharted Territory
Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Financial Bust Connected to Illegal Alien Mortgages
Human Events
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California hotels facing foreclosure as tourism declines
Contra Costa Times
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The Recession has Technically Ended, Is Bernanke Joking?
The Market Oracle
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| Monday, October 5, 2009 | |||
| 2nd Half of Housing Crash On the Way in USA! Millions of adjustable-rate mortgages are going to reset in the coming years, possibly to higher interest rates, creating the prospect of a new round of foreclosures. A Look Ahead To the Great Mortgage Resetting washingtonpost.com |
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| 'Shadow' looms large over shaky US housing market
The Free Lance-Star
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| Alan Greenspan Is the Definition of "Epic Fail"
Huffington Post (blog)
In evaluating the possible prevalence of housing price bubbles, it is important to keep in mind that home prices tend to consistently rise relative to the ...
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| Days of using homes as wealth generators is over, experts say
Austin American-Statesman
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| Property Websites Could Replace Realtors News.sky.com |
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| No One Buying Mansions Latimes.com |
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300 Members of The House Support Audit the Fed
Prison Planet.com
Including Congressman Ron Paul, the bill's author, 300 members of the House of Representatives now support an audit of the Federal Reserve. ...
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Firms are getting billions, yet aren't averting foreclosures
San Luis Obispo Tribune
"We didn't treat the people very well, but the money was pretty good," the former account officer, Ron Davis, testified during one of the trials. ...
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The Coming Bigger Bank Bust
Daily Beast
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Analyst: End of tax credit may drop home prices
The Huntsville Times - al.com
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| Friday, October 2, 2009 | |||
| Short Sales: A Fraying Lifeline for Homeowners
BusinessWeek
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| Return of the 90% mortgage
This is Money
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| US Financial System Systemic Failure Approaches
The Market Oracle
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| Leaving Affordable Mortgage May Become Winning Gambit
Bloomberg
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| Why They Call It Fall
Prison Planet.com
We've got a financial system that has been propped up artificially, its balance sheets soggy with underwater mortgages and worthless derivatives, ...
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DSNews.com
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| Falling Apartment Prices Jolt Manhattan Market Into Action
Wall Street Journal
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| 'End the Fed' Author Ron Paul's NY Victory Lap
Seeking Alpha
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| End The Fed, Save America
Liberty Papers
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