Housing

by Edward Hugh According to an intriguing article I read in Bloomberg recently an alert signal has been sounded due to the fact that house prices in the Scandinavian countries have been rising very rapidly of late. Judging by what they…

We are watching house prices in the United Kingdom and the United States to determine whether they have stabilized after the initial descent. This is crucial if these two countries are to avoid a double dip recession. So I am going to start…

by Annaly Capital Management Today Mike Farrell appeared as a panel participant at a House Financial Services Committee entitled The Future of Housing Finance – A Review of Proposals to Address Market Structure and Transition.  The…

by Annaly Capital Management We attended Chairman Bernanke’s lecture last Friday at Princeton University, primarily because there was going to be open Q&A. As it turns out, despite our eagerly raised hand we were not called, the…

Recently I pointed to some comments by Andy Xie which indicated he was taking a less apocalyptic stance toward the Chinese property market. It was difficult to discern how much of a climb down this was for the China bear. But, judging from…

How far are we from a bottom in U.S. home prices?  There are many estimates that there could be another 10% or more for the national average and median prices to decline.  This author estimated that 2010 had a most probable…

by Annaly Salvos The title of this post may sound like a fable told by Aesop, but we assure you it’s not. We spent the early part of this week in Dallas attending the 3rd Zelman & Associates Housing Summit. The conference was attended…

I don't know exactly what to make of Andy Xie's quote near the end of this first CNBC video below. He says "It's not crashing like I expected in 2012," referring to the Chinese housing market. Is Xie saying: A. The crash is not…

Quick note: We have temporarily switched to summary RSS feeds instead of full feeds. One problem the CW site was having before we switched platforms had to do with the feeds crushing the CPU whenever we posted or edited a post.  It is…

by John Lounsbury Average home prices are virtually unchanged from July 2009 to July 2010 according to the latest report form First American CoreLogic, which provided the data for the following graph from Calculated Risk. The graph has…