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Housing Bubble Watch: Housing Permits, Starts, Builder Confidence Fall

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by Glenn Setzer on August 22 2006, 7:00 AM

It's that time again. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the Census Department have released their monthly reports on the state of the new home industry in consumer terms and the attitude of those who make their living by building the...
NAR Takes A Lickin From Competitors At Oxley Hearings

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by Glenn Setzer on August 17 2006, 7:00 AM

In addition to the three witnesses from government agencies, Department of Justice, Government Accountability Office, and Federal Trade Commission who testified in general that real estate lacks real competitiveness , there were four other witnesses who...
Mortgage Rates Move In Opposite Directions

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by Glenn Setzer on August 16 2006, 7:00 AM

It is hard to imagine how two organizations could deviate more on the direction of mortgage rates than Freddie Mac and The Mortgage Bankers Association did in their respective reports for the week ending August 10 and August 11. In the wake of the Federal...
Fannie Mae Slips Another Deadline, Freddie Mac Reform and OFHEO Wants Greater Power

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by Glenn Setzer on August 15 2006, 7:00 AM

Several things have occurred over the last week or so in the ongoing saga of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and their financial improprieties which date back almost to the turn of the century. First, Freddie Mac recently announced that it had voluntarily adopted...
Housing Bubble Watch: Housing Sector No Longer Fueling The Economy

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by Glenn Setzer on August 11 2006, 7:00 AM

Slower economic growth and rising inflationary pressures are cited as competing trends in the U.S. economy by Freddie Mac in its monthly Economic Outlook for August which was released on Wednesday. ...The report estimates that $500 billion in first mortgages...
Oxley Hearings Investigate Real Estate Competitiveness

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by Glenn Setzer on August 10 2006, 7:00 AM

As promised, we are continuing an account of a hearing conducted recently by the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity of the House Banking Committee. The hearing, entitled The Changing Real Estate Market purportedly sought to investigate...
Mortgage Rates Down Even Before The Fed Halts Rate Increases

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by Glenn Setzer on August 09 2006, 7:00 AM

Mortgage rates dropped again during the week ended August 3 and August 4, and with the announcement on August 8 that the Federal Reserve has, for the moment at least, stopped its regular lock step quarter-point increases in the federal funds rate, there...
The Changing Real Estate Market - Oxley Holds Hearings

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by Glenn Setzer on August 08 2006, 7:00 AM

Remember our old friend Michael G. Oxley? Recently the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held hearings entitled " The Changing Real Estate Market ." We will try our best to report on this hearing in a fair and balanced way. Well...
Mortgage Rates Continue Up and Down Pattern

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by Glenn Setzer on August 03 2006, 7:00 AM

And this week, they are down. Mortgage rates , that is. The one week up, two weeks down, two weeks up pattern continues as the markets try to outguess where the Federal Reserve is going with rates, fewer people apply for mortgages, and housing sales in...
Peer-To-Peer Lending: A Prototype For The Future Of Mortgage Lending

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by Jann Swanson on August 02 2006, 7:00 AM

Newsweek Magazine's Tip Sheet section last week featured two Web sites that have nothing to do with real estate or mortgage financing but may illustrate the future of the mortgage lending game. It is not such a stretch to see a prospective homebuyer logging...
Housing Bubble Watch: NAR Announces the Return of the Buyers Market

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by Glenn Setzer on July 31 2006, 7:00 AM

Home buyers have waited for years but perhaps the agony is over. It is official; the National Association of Realtors has confirmed that we are now in a buyers' market . According to the NAR June report on existing home sales issued last week there is...
Mortgage Rates Rise Taking Back Last Weeks Gains

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by Glenn Setzer on July 27 2006, 7:00 AM

It was nice while it lasted - one full week to be exact - but, according to Freddie Mac the mortgage market last week took back most of the rate decreases that were so welcome the week before. The Mortgage Bankers Association, however, recorded rate drops...
Texas Murder Raises Concerns For Real Estate Agent Safety

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by Glenn Setzer on July 26 2006, 7:00 AM

The brutal murder of Sarah Ann Walker in McKinney, Texas early this month has again spotlighted a perennial topic - violence against real estate agents and real estate safety tips . Law enforcement officials, real estate boards, real estate trainers,...
Single Women Employ Different Strategies In Buying and Financing A Home

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by Glenn Setzer on July 25 2006, 7:00 AM

As the recent report, Buying For Themselves: An Analysis of Unmarried Female Home Buyers by Rachel Bogardus Drew for the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University points out, single female homebuyers as a group have several characteristics...
Housing Bubble Watch: Building Stats Slip As Does Builder Confidence

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by Glenn Setzer on July 21 2006, 7:00 AM

The two monthly reports that measure the health of the home construction industry were released this week. The U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued its report on housing starts in June and the National Association...

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