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Beyond the Numbers, Confidence Returns to Housing

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Loren Bimler

While first-timers are getting more interested, current homeowners are getting less interested, according to the Campbell survey. Meanwhile investor interest in housing rose to a four-month high, accompanied by a rise in sales of distressed properties. Investors, who largely buy … Continue reading →

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How Investors Are Skewing Home Price Recovery

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Loren Bimler

Home prices finally appear to be catching up with the increase in overall sales pace. That is usually the case, as prices lag sales on the way up and on the way down.  The latest reading from SP/Case-Shiller, which employs … Continue reading →

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Why Home Prices Are Better and Worse

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Loren Bimler

A home is worth exactly what someone is willing to pay for it. We could end it right there, but for the fact that in the middle of the most closely-watched housing recovery in history, the sheer number of monthly … Continue reading →

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Denver home sales up in January

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Loren Bimler

Dennis Huspeni Reporter – Denver Business Journal Email  | Facebook  | Twitter  | Real Deals blog The number of homes sold in metro Denver in January climbed from the same month in 2011, according to a report on Metrolist Inc.    Metrolist Inc. … Continue reading →

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Excluding Distressed Sales, Are Home Prices Just Fine?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Loren Bimler

Home prices in May were down 7.4 percent year-over-year, according to a new report from CoreLogic. This is the first of the May numbers, as SP Case Shiller, which was released earlier this week, looks back two months. CoreLogic’s [CLGX  … Continue reading →

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Spring Housing Season

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Loren Bimler

I don’t know what the official end of the Spring housing market is, but it seems as if the experts have called the close, and it ain’t great. Last week, after the folks at the vaunted SP/Case Shiller Indices put … Continue reading →

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Spring Housing Ends on a Sour, Sinking Note

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Loren Bimler

I don’t know what the official end of the Spring housing market is, but it seems as if the experts have called the close, and it ain’t great. Last week, after the folks at the vaunted SP Case Shiller Indices … Continue reading →

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Falling Home Prices Hit Big Banks, Fannie, Freddie

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Loren Bimler

Home prices began double-dipping months ago, but now that SP/Case Shiller has chimed in, it really must be so. This report is the most widely-followed home price index, equally quoted in bank boardrooms, Treasury Department back rooms, and Congressional Committees. … Continue reading →

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How Low Will Home Prices Go?

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Loren Bimler

Did I say double dip? Well I’m not the only one. Today’s home price report from SP Case Shiller proves the point. Remember, this report is based on the sale prices of transactions that closed in January, but it is … Continue reading →

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