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Record Low Mortgage Rates, Rising Pessimism on Housing
The numbers don’t add up. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac reports the rate on the 30-year fixed hit a new record low of 4.12 percent, at the exact moment that cohort Fannie Mae released its August housing survey showing ever more … Continue reading
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Tagged Chief Economist, Cohort, Credit Score, Debt Issues, Doug Duncan, Exact Moment, Fannie Mae, Financial Situations, Freddie Mac, Fundamental Reality, Housing Market, Lack Of Confidence, Low Mortgage, Mortgage Rates, Numbers Don, Obama, Personal Finances, Pessimism, Political Struggle, Sovereign Debt
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Seen and Heard On Nantucket: A Lack of Confidence
Please forgive my absence last week, but I was on vacation with the family. We visited the island of Nantucket, where intrepid whalers once hunted surrounding waters in search of the mighty beasts’ precious oil, and where I spent a … Continue reading
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Tagged 600 Thread Count Sheets, Beasts, Business Owner, Chanel, Clutches, Cobb Salad, Debt Crisis, Fixed Rate Mortgage, Friend Business, Hedge Fund, Interesting Story, Lack Of Confidence, Mansions, Nantucket, Oversupply, Precious Oil, Real Estate Agents, Thread Count Sheets, Wallets, Year Fixed Rate Mortgage
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Struggling to Make a House Call on Confidence
Today’s report on consumer confidence, or the striking lack of it, is yet another sign that housing is going to be in a very sticky state for a while. It’s hard to say whether housing is weighing on confidence or … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc, Bad News, Consumer Confidence, Distressed Properties, Drawing Board, Flood, Historical Perspective, Home Builder, House Call, Lack Of Confidence, Market Regulators, Material Costs, Mortgage Market, National Numbers, Pending Home Sales Index, Prognosticators, Risk Retention, Sales Numbers, Sentiment, Uncertainty
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Home Rentership Society
I spent this morning at a conference by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. They released a survey showing one in four renters, low and middle income, are spending more than half their income on rent and utilities. That’s about … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordability, Breadth, Conundrum, Donovan, Double Dip, Fannie Mae, Fha, Food Health, Freddie Mac, Home Ownership, Homelessness, Household Necessities, Housing And Urban Development, Housing Studies, Investment Value, Lack Of Confidence, Rents, Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development, Surges, Tight Credit
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Even Short-Term FHA Shutdown Will Hit Housing
I was hoping not to have to write this particular piece, but it seems I may have no choice, so here we go with housing. What happens to today’s housing market without FHA loans? Right now FHA loans are about … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Walters, Case Numbers, Chief Economist, Credit Suisse, Fha Loans, Fha Mortgage, First Time Buyers, Government Shutdown, Housing Market, Hovnanian, Kb Home, Lack Of Confidence, Mf Global, Mortgage Insurance, Mortgage Insurers, Mortgage Market, Oppenheim, Psychological Perspective, Purchase Applications, Refis
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