Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Case-Shiller: Cities with Price Increases

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The Case-Shiller data (previous post) shows three cities with year-over-year price increases: Charlotte (4.3% increase), Seattle (3.3%), and...

S&P/Case-Shiller: House Prices Fall 6.1%

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Update: added table of price changes. S&P/Case-Shiller data . Note that this is the year over year decline (October '06 to October ...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Credit Crunch Hitting CRE

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From the WSJ: Credit Downturn Hits the Malls (hat tip Houston) The credit crunch ... is creating problems in commercial real estate, drivin...

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Pig

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From Tanta. A Mortgage Pig™ exclusive. (Warning: this is a 2 MB Excel File) Raindrops Keep Falling on My Pig Happy Holidays to All!

A Very Nerdy Christmas

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UPDATED BELOW From Mortgage Pig™. I suppose this requires some explanation. Many years and versions of Excel ago, I was in some interminable...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Happy Holidays!

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Update: Since it is getting dark in Yosemite, here is the Mount Wilson Tower Cam in Los Angeles. Click on photos for larger image. A live c...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

Mud-Luscious: Balloons for UberNerds

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A question arose the other day about balloon mortgages. Balloons are one of those things that have been around, in one incarnation or anoth...

Barclays: Losses May Reach $700 Billion

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For a very bearish take on the credit crisis, see: Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park' . The article includes a $700 bill...
Saturday, December 22, 2007

Housing Futures: 11% Price Decline in 2008 for 25 Largest Cities

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Radar Logic provides a daily estimate of house prices for 25 MSAs in the United States. If you click on Historical Data, you can see price ...

Fastest Downgrade Contest

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Our friend P.J. at Housing Wire did the world a big favor last night by sorting out the details of Fitch's giant $5.3 billion heap o...