All Posts Tagged With: "prices"
Why Retail Real Estate Is In Trouble
Mortgages, foreclosures and lagging home sales dominate much of our real estate discussions these days, but have you noticed the large number of empty stores near your home? Have you seen the vacancies and noticed more parking at shopping malls? Randyl Drummer with CoStar writes that commercial rents have fallen 10 percent since 2008. Given [...]
1Aug2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
How Jobs at 75 Cents an Hour are Killing US Real Estate
I’m not sure what pills are used to treat depression, but they ought to be available to real estate buyers and sellers by the bucket. Real estate folks need such pharmaceutical assistance because for the past five years the news has been dominated by the worst financial conditions since the Great Depression, a time which [...]
29Jun2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Is the government holding down mortgage interest rates?
One way to re-start the housing sector and thus a big part of the American economy would be to assure that mortgage quotes were as low as possible. And given that banks today can borrow money at pretty close to zero, is the government now forcing down mortgage rates to 5 percent or less? The [...]
23May2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Less FHA Mortgage Loan Demand Undermines American Home Prices
A small change in FHA guidelines has now hit the market and the result has been both immediate and devastating. “Purchase applications fell last week, driven primarily by a sharp decrease in government purchase applications as new, higher FHA premiums went into effect,” said Michael Fratantoni, the Mortgage Bankers Association Vice President of Research and [...]
2May2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Real Estate Seer: Renting In, Mortgages & Foreclosures Out
In the decades since World War II real estate prices rose with enormous consistency but now the oomph is gone. Most people are better off renting than owning, says Patrick Killelea. For him, and for millions of others, the path to financial security no longer includes real estate ownership, mortgages or the possibility of foreclosure. [...]
15Feb2011 | Peter G. Miller | 10 comments | Continued
Will home prices stabilize in 2011?
Are better times ahead in real estate? And are declining home prices likely in the coming year? Can both happen at the same time? That might be the case, according to a new analysis from Fiserv, Inc., an information management provider for the financial services industry. It says both that prices will stabilize — but [...]
2Feb2011 | Peter G. Miller | 3 comments | Continued
HUD Scorecard: Home Prices Stabilizing
HUD has introduced a new public information report, a Monthly Housing Scorecard. This is an idea which makes a lot of sense, not only because of what it says but also because HUD includes data from both governmental agencies and the private sector in one place. The News To start, and given the events of [...]
22Jun2010 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
2009 Home Sales Up, But Values Down
Real estate sales reached nearly 5.2 million in 2009, up 4.9 percent from 2008 according to the National Association of Realtors. The increase was the first annual rise since 2005. In terms of prices, NAR says for all of 2009, the median price for a single-family existing home was $173,200, down 11.9 percent from 2008. [...]
26Jan2010 | 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
Real Estate: Second Quarter Sales Rise, Prices Fall
Existing-home sales in the second quarter showed healthy gains from the first quarter in the vast majority of states, according to the latest survey by the National Association of Realtors. However, prices continued to fall in most markets. Total state existing-home sales, including single-family and condo, rose 3.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate [...]
12Aug2009 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
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