property

by Edward Hugh Spain’s troubled banking sector is back in the news again. Despite the apparently successful stress tests carried out over the summer problems persist, and don’t seem likely to go away soon. Foremost among these is the…

By Jake Weber While it may be hard to believe, the housing market hasn’t been the worst-performing real estate sector in terms of price. The index for the Case-Shiller Composite-20 index for residential real estate peaked in July 2006, and…

The July 2010 Monthly Commentary By Annaly Capital Management The Economy The S&P 500 finished June down 5.4%, while Treasuries enjoyed a significant rally. The yield on the 10-year shed more than 30 basis points and ended the month…

The June Monthly Commentary By Annaly Capital Management. The Economy: The financial crisis is not over The Residential Mortgage Market: The tale of "fails" in the mortgage market The Commercial Mortgage Market:…

As the Chinese government looks to slow the economy, non-performing loans in the banking sector will come into view. Clearly, the Chinese authorities want to slow the pace of house price and consumer price inflation and reduce rampant…

I don't buy into the core inflation number that the press or Federal Reserve use. Today's Wall Street Journal has an article on the front page entitled "Inflation at 44-Year Low." When you read further, you realize they are using…

“My maid just asked for leave,” a friend in Beijing told me recently. “She’s rushing home to buy property. I suggested she borrow 70 percent, so she could cap the loss.” It wasn’t the first time I had heard such a story in China. Some…

The Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released this morning were a mixed bag. The data for January 2010 showed a decline of 0.7% from a year earlier. On a month-to-month basis prices fell 0.4%. Yet nine of the 20 markets in the Composite-20…

Edward Chancellor, author of the seminal book on financial speculation and manias “Devil Take The Hindmost,” is now turning his eyes to China.  He sees a number of red flags which point to excess in China. Chancellor writes:…

The last feature on the list of links below is on CRE in Washington D.C. where the economy is fairly robust. If you know anything about these properties, you would agree these are not poor properties at all. The problem with them is not…