Posts Tagged ‘HOMES’Are Housing Fundamentals Still Deteriorating?This post first appeared on Minyanville. There’s a good amount of buzz surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s piece on the staggering number of homeowners underwater on their mortgages. This, on the same day the Case-Shiller Home Price Index posted its fourth consecutive month-over-month increase. Mixed signals? Possibly. But in reality, these two seemingly disparate data [...] Keepin’ It Real Estate: Just How Hot Is the Housing Market?This post first appeared on Minyanville. It seems that with each passing month, the data gods deliver more and more evidence that the woe begotten US housing market may finally be emerging from its years-long doldrums. Existing home sales: Up. New home sales: Up. Pending home sales: Up. Home prices: Down, but at a slower [...] Keepin’ It Real Estate: Chinese Investors Smell Blood in CaliforniaBy ANDREW JEFFERY This post first appeared on Minyanville. Speculators have been flocking to California for centuries. Gold, computers, absurd dot.com start-ups, real estate - if it’s an asset, it’s probably boomed and busted in the Golden State. The bursting of the latest bubble — real estate — is still in progress, as foreclosures push up [...] |