All Posts Tagged With: "moratoriums"
Holiday Eviction Bans Versus Foreclosure Moratoriums
In the past few days there have been a flurry of lender announcements promising that this holiday season there will be an eviction ban for 2009. Nobody says so, but the eviction suspension differs greatly from the foreclosure moratorium offered in 2008. Let’s see: Fannie Mae has announced that it will suspend all foreclosure evictions [...]
22Dec2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Real Estate: What Really Happened To Home Prices
We’re not going to restore the housing market without solid factual evidence to suggest that home prices have started to turn around. A good source for such evidence is the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the government body that now oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In figures release yesterday, FHFA tells us that in [...]
26Aug2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Should We Cheer An 18-Percent Drop in Home Prices?
According to Business Week there’s good news on the home front. “Case-Shiller Home Prices Decline Only 18%” reads the headline. And then we discover that “the latest Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller housing index numbers out today show the market falling less dramatically than it had been earlier in the year. The 10 and 20 city indices [...]
1Jul2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
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