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    • Mon May 26th 10:54 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Home Prices Continue to Decline
      OFHEO Director James B. Lockhart seems levelheaded and not so political. Fortunately OFHEO kept fannie and freddie from going even farther overboard during 2005-2007.

      It's good to see public comment from a higher official, etc of the seriously important *positive* side of the price normalization.
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    • Thu May 1st 16:49 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Housing Bubble Goes Pop
      Tom B -- don't search for a reason to buy a house in a declining market. If you don't absolutely need to buy for some unusual reason (you have 7 dogs, etc), then rent for a year, and give yourself plenty of time to search for that next home.

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    • Wed Apr 30th 16:01 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      From Housing to Employment: We're in Big Trouble
      Price to Income of "4"

      is a lot more than 3.5 (said to be a maximum sustainable level often),

      or <b> 2.7 </b>, said to be the historical average.

      www.usatoday.com/money...




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    • Fri Apr 25th 11:27 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      As Home Sales Plunge, Some Say the Crisis Is Almost Over
      If you live in Texas, expect house price declines this year.
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    • Thu Apr 24th 16:30 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Robert Shiller on America's 'Speculative Culture'
      Wakeup---Yes, we are going to have a lower amount of consuming in the US, forced. The obvious mechanism is the decline in the Dollar and related change in basic necessity consumable prices, not to mention losing the bubble jobs, etc. In an even bigger picture, since we had a pronounced over-consumption, perhaps the lesser consumption level is kinda a needed adjustment, although it will feel awful for many.
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    • Wed Apr 23rd 21:19 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Impending Mortgage Crisis
      ArnoldCountry -- that premium to own ratio or difference is far less than a big $2500 vs $1500. It's a lot closer to $1700 vs $1500, especially when no more rapidly rising prices are expecting for more than a decade by most experts.
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    • Wed Apr 23rd 10:39 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Existing Home Sales Charts
      Tim -- they could stabilize in a range near there eventually I'd guess. But if as you can see from the graph, most would-be buyers jumped in prematurely (in the bubble, afraid of waiting and building up a down payment, etc), then the buyers would be used up temporarily, so that first time buyers are below long term average for a while.
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    • Thu Apr 17th 12:04 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      What's Ahead for Real Estate: Doing the Math
      Good article. Interesting. I'll watch to see how well the predictions do.
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    • Thu Apr 17th 11:59 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      How To Solve the Housing Crisis Tomorrow
      When I say 500 hours, I'm not exaggerating or using hyperbole. When you propose a plan this momentous and gigantic, you need a proportional amount of work to it's significance and risk.
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    • Thu Apr 17th 11:53 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      How To Solve the Housing Crisis Tomorrow
      User 179274: Yes, he only needs to read and think and work out consequences in detail for another, say, 500 hours, like a professional that works hard, until he finally has a handle on the effects of his proposal.
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    • Wed Apr 16th 11:56 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      How To Solve the Housing Crisis Tomorrow
      "moderation in all things" is wiser than many people realize.

      When we go to rescue families that speculated on rising house prices with their own home, we need to rescue some and not all.

      Because....home *owners* are not *all* Americans.

      There are Americans, families with kids included, that are working to be able to buy their first home.

      They will rely on house prices normalizing back to typical levels vs incomes.
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    • Wed Apr 16th 09:56 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Housing Crisis: Personal Responsibility and Wishful Thinking
      Good article.
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    • Wed Apr 16th 09:06 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Mortgage Lenders Can't Escape Morgenson's Wrath
      "Its amazing how barely literate people at the NYT become stars "overnight". Who crowned these bozos"

      ...

      uh....the Pulitzer Prize folks did.....

      ...
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    • Mon Apr 14th 10:06 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Housing, Credit, Economy: At an Inflection Point
      ArtS, thanks for helping try to preserve the English language.

      It's going to need a lot of help over the next year, as every analyst and their dog tries to bend reality.
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    • Mon Apr 14th 10:04 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Housing, Credit, Economy: At an Inflection Point
      uh.....

      enter....recession....

      recalculate....

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