House Prices Are Still Too High And They're Going To Tank -- Ritholtz
• Businessinsider.com/Normally, after a bubble, prices not only return to the mean but crash right through it, and Ritholtz thinks that that may be possible again this time.
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First-Time Homebuyer Traffic Nose-Dive
• Ritholtz.comThe results of the first survey are out, and not surprisingly, it indicates that first-time “homebuyer traffic dropped sharply in May. This drop implies fewer signed contracts in June and fewer closed transactions in July and August.”
Ugly Reality: Whitney, Ritholtz Issue Bearish Calls on Housing Market
• NakedCapitalism.com/What usually happens when markets get wildly overvalued – and a ~3 standard deviation price move sure qualifies — is they get resolved not by reverting to the mean, but by careening far beyond it.
Fannie-Freddie Bailout Could Cost Taxpayers $1 Trillion
• CNBC.comAccording to the Congressional Budget Office, the losses could balloon to $400 billion. And if housing prices fall further, the cost to the taxpayer could hit as much as $1 trillion.
Oil Spill Will Bring More Pain To Troubled Florida Homeowners
• Businessinsider.com/On an aggregate basis, 81% of all loans in the state are ‘underwater’, and the average mark-to-market loan-to-value ratio of Florida loans is 138%. ‘Nearly 40% of all Florida borrowers owe more than 150% of the value of their homes,’ said Slump.
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A Record Year: 2010 on path to having 4 million foreclosure filings
• MyBudget360.comSince the collapse of the mortgage market 95+ percent of all loans are now “safe” government backed loans. Yet problems are still here. So doesn’t it seem unwise and downright illogical to try to get more people to buy if clearly wages...
Inane Thoughts: CNNMoney Article says "Housing Shortage is Coming"
• GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.com"It is ironic, but there is a growing consensus that there may be a new housing shortage coming," said James Gaines, a real estate economist with Texas A&M.
A Closer Look at the Second Leg Down in Housing
• Ritholtz.comOne of the things that Markets are best at is price discovery — the determination of a price for a specific item through basic supply and demand factors. Without the heavy hand of the government intervening, the real estate market is about to ex...
The Coming U.S. Real Estate Crash
• theeconomiccollapseblog.com/The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history, and it is threatening to become one of the greatest economic disasters in U.S. history. Agents along the Gulf coast are reporting that the spill has completely kill
Perfect Timing: South Florida condo purchasers are buying in bulk
• miamiherald.com/Backed by a multibillion-dollar private equity firm in New York, a team of Miami investors and strategists launched Lionheart Capital this year looking to scoop up choice South Florida condos at rock-bottom prices.
The Housing Charts From Hell
• NakedCapitalism.com/Notice how the late 1980s-early 1990s housing downturn, which was considered to be serious at the time, pales in comparison in contrast to our current slump. And in that downturn, it took fifteen quarters for prices to bottom.
New Home Sales Plunge By Record 33%, Market Plunges Into Double Dip
• ZeroHedge.comNew home join the existing home sales double dip brigade, and plunge by an unprecedented 32.7%, nearly double the expected -18.7, compared to a previous reading of 14.7%. The government succeeded in making a mockery of this data...
12 Charts That Show The Total Carnage In The Housing Industry
• Businessinsider.com/On Tuesday, new home sales data from the NAR punched housing bulls in the gut. The post-homebuyer tax-credit hangover is going to be very ugly.
New Mortgage Applications Collapse Again
• Businessinsider.com/Calculated Risk points to the latest from the Mortgage Bankers Association, who point out that new mortgage applications fell 1.2%. Refinance activity fell by over 7%..
Mortgage "FRAUD" Seminar In Temecula CA.
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Existing home sales slip 2% in May
• CNN MoneyExisting home sales slipped in May and missed estimates but sustained a strong pace as homebuyers who qualified for the expired tax credit moved to close deals ahead of the June 30 deadline.
Purchases of U.S. Existing Homes Unexpectedly Dropped in May
• BloombergSales of U.S. previously owned homes unexpectedly fell in May as demand began to slip even before a government tax credit expires.
Freaking Ugly: Check Out The Huge Miss For Existing Home Sales
• Businessinsider.com/Approximately 180,000 home buyers who signed a contract in good faith to receive the tax credit may not be able to finalize by the end of June due to delays in the mortgage process, particularly for short sales.
Phoenix Real Estate: Anthem Foreclosures Increase at Frightening Rate
• AZcentral.comThe number of foreclosures in Anthem quadrupled during the first five months of this year, according to numbers provided by a national firm that tracks the data. Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Services...
Bad Sign For Housing, As Lumber Prices Continue Their Total Free Fall
• Businessinsider.com/Here is one ugly proxy for the housing economy. We wrote about lumber last week, but it's only gotten worse since then, and in fact it's fallen very hard in just the last couple of days.
Mortgage Fraud Seminar (50 Miles N. of San Diego)
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Obama's "HAMP" Program Fails: Tsunami of Foreclosures Coming
• GlobalEconomicAnalysis.blogspot.comOnly 30% of the 5.7 million borrowers who are 60 days delinquent are eligible for the program. 4 million delinquent borrowers are stuck. Of those eligible for the program, only 346,000 have completed the trial and received a permanent modification.
Housing Market Hell: 14 Reasons To Fear The Ongoing Bubble
• Businessinsider.com/Fourteen percent of borrowers are 30-days late or worse. The cure rate at 60-days late is almost zero. What's French for Armageddon?
Meredith Whitney: "No Doubt We Have Entered A Double-Dip For Housing" (VIDEO)
• ZeroHedge.comState economies are plunging, and are $200 billion underwater, will lead to 2 million in state-level layoffs leading to a low-end impact; raising taxes at state level will impact the top-end Retail sales have been stronger due to consumers not payin
Cost of Seizing Fannie and Freddie Surges for Taxpayers
• NYtimes.com/“We’re all working for the government now,” said Mr. Bridwell on a recent sun-baked morning, steering a Hummer through subdivisions laid out like circuit boards on the desert floor.
Demographic Hell: Housing will remain stagnate from 2010 to 2020
• MyBudget360.comMiddle class young family is also delaying on having children so the necessity for a bigger home is also being pushed out. This demographic shift is happening at the same time that baby boomers start entering retirement age and will want to downsize
China Could Dump Its Massive Fannie And Freddie Holdings
• Businessinsider.com/Who is the largest foreign holder of mortgage bonds from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? China. The nation owns $300 - $400 billion worth, which comes to nearly 20% of China's official currency reserves according to unofficial estimates via China Daily
Oil May Be the Nail in Florida Housing's Coffin
• CNBC.comWhat strikes me, though, in driving around here for the last few days is not the growing fear among the locals, but the sheer number of "For Sale" signs down the beach. They're literally almost every third house.
12 Cities Where Home Sellers Are Being Forced To Cut Prices Like Mad
• Businessinsider.com/Phoenix, Arizona: June 1st, 2009: 26% of homes had a price reduction. June 1st, 2010: 33% of homes had a price reduction
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