Posts Tagged ‘bank’Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market – September 2009In this month’s issue, check out: The State of the Markets – 9/1/2009 Housing inventory set to rise. The culprit? Seasonality. Ciriosly Green: Why Energy Efficiency Matters Your home has hidden value just waiting to be unlocked. Zip Code Spotlight: El Cerrito – 94530 Is Berkeley’s neighbor to the north heating up? Feature: The Future [...] First Time Homebuyer Spotlight: Which Lender is Right For You?This post first appeared in the September edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market One question almost every first time homebuyer asks us is: “Who should I talk to about getting a mortgage?” The easy answer is: “Whoever gives you the best rate and terms.” While this answer does have [...] A Housing Solution that Focuses on (Gasp!) HousesThis post first appeared on Minyanville and our sister site, Dawn Patrol. Every once in a while, the most important news story of the day is the one the Wall Street Journal allots a mere 200 words. In a move that will soon be greeted with quiet mutterings of “I should have seen this coming,” [...] HOPE when?Cirios Real Estate Washington’s war on foreclosures, the latest in a string of sycophantic attempts to sway public opinion back in the favor of the very regulators that turned a blind eye to rampant irresponsible lending, is now being waged with carefully crafted press releases. In the past two days, strikingly contradictory reports have emerged [...] Mortgage Reform: Why Government Intelligence is OxymoronThis post first appeared on Minyanville and our sister site Dawn Patrol. After leading the banking sector to its largest ever one-day drop yesterday, Washington Mutual (WM), in an effort to assuage concerns that it’s facing a cash crunch, released a statement claiming that the bank is “well-capitalized.” Though the stock bucked the trend this [...] The Silent KillerWhat’s the silent killer that’s been largely ignored by the financial media as it tries to keep up with the quickly unraveling mortgage crisis? Fraud. While there are many causes for the current meltdown, the most unexplored and and least discussed is fraud. FraudBlogger.com reported yesterday that there were $1.7 billion active cases of criminal [...] |