The percentage of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their house is worth will nearly double to 48 percent in 2011 from 26 percent at the end of March, portending another blow to the housing market, Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday. Home price declines will have their biggest impact on prime "conforming"...
The housing bubble was a fully rational response to a set of distortions in the free market—distortions created primarily by the public sector.
U.S. home foreclosures climbed 27% from the previous month's year-over-year results, according to RealtyTrac's August 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. There were 303,879 foreclosure filings in the month of August, a 12% increase from the prior month. According to RealtyTrac, one in every...
Federal Reserve Vice-Chairman Donald Kohn (voter) said it's not yet clear if house prices in the U.S. are close to finding a bottom . Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Kohn did say it's encouraging that the pace of declines is starting to abate in some markets. He noted...
A report on housing prices by Global Insight says that although prices for single-family homes are still heading downwards across the country, the rate of decline has gone down and " extreme overvaluation of house prices is essentially non-existent ." The only states that had extreme overvaluation...
The National Association of Realtors� (NAR) presently claims 1.2 million members. We figure those are figures from 2007, pre-dating the worst of the housing free fall and that there have been many dropouts since then. These NAR membership numbers include more than just agents who sell property for a...
The S&P Case-Shiller home price index for Q1 continued to deteriorate with the 20-city composite index posting a record annual decline of 14.1%. In March, the index also declined by an annualized 14.4%. The Case-Shiller index has fallen every month since peaking in July 2006. "The steep downturn in residential...
We can all breathe a sign of relief. The housing crisis is over . At least that was the headline on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal earlier this month when Cyril Moulle-Berteaux, a managing partner of Traxis Partners LP, a hedge fund firm based in New York made his case that the housing...
Fed Governor Randall Kroszner said rising mortgage foreclosures are an " urgent problem " and called on Congress to pass a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulatory bill. Speaking at the NeighborWorks America Symposium in Cincinnati on Wednesday, Kroszner said foreclosures lead to a loss of one-fifth to...
The S&P Case-Shiller home price index continued its sharp decline in February as both the 10-city and 20-city composite indexes posted record annual declines in excess of 12.5%. The 20-city composite index, which tracks the price path of typical single-family homes in 20 metropolitan areas, fell by 12...