http://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/fullThu, 20 Apr 2006 22:57:12 +0000http://bubble.realestatebn.com/Real Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/115102801467207110Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:39 +00002006-06-22T19:00:14.680-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Buying And Selling: Seesaw Sales"><br />"A lot of consumers have been having affordability problems, which is why a lot of them have been taking out ARMs," said Chen. "But with ARM rates rising, fewer people have been able to afford a home, which was also behind last week's decline in applications." <br />Note the fact that things are still considerably less than sunny in South Florida, and you can get the picture.<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/weblogs/news/archives/2006/03/buying_and_sell_4.html" title="Buying And Selling: Seesaw Sales">Buying And Selling: Seesaw Sales</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/06/buying-and-selling-seesaw-sales.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/115102801414840775Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:56:38 +00002006-06-22T19:00:14.243-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Housing Market: Crying Wolf"><br />Here's a line that's worth noting: Fed officials are counting on a slowing U.S. housing market to keep the economy from overheating -- and there have been numerous signs a long housing boom is simmering down. But as long as short-term-minded developers keep churning out hyper-expensive McMansions, prices will have to drop in the long run, because eventually, there will simply be too much inventory to make value of anything.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/weblogs/news/archives/2006/04/housing_market_10.html" title="Housing Market: Crying Wolf">Housing Market: Crying Wolf</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/06/housing-market-crying-wolf.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/115093573569863690Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:18:42 +00002006-06-21T17:22:15.706-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Housing Market: The Gathering of the Fed"><br />"One does not just raise rates at the Fed...." <br />Why do I get the feeling that Bernanke spends most of his days at his desk saying stuff like, "Greenspan, what a mess you've left me with... This trend, along with its sibling "workforce housing," may be the spearheads we need to build affordable, mixed-income housing that will reenergize middle-class buyers and get them back into the post-bubble market.<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/weblogs/news/archives/2006/03/housing_market_7.html" title="Housing Market: The Gathering of the Fed">Housing Market: The Gathering of the Fed</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/06/housing-market-gathering-of-fed.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/115093573524366254Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:18:38 +00002006-06-21T17:22:15.313-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Friday Housing News: Riders On The Bubble"><br />Dana Dratch over at Bankrate advises nervous homeowners how to tame the mighty bubble. <br />My question for the legions of bubble riders would be this: Since the bubble is breaking into little "bubbletes," which markets will survive intact, and which will crash? Because as we all know, if you have to ask, you can't afford it...and right now it's looking like even formerly mid-range and low-end properties are falling into that category.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/weblogs/news/archives/2006/03/friday_housing_18.html" title="Friday Housing News: Riders On The Bubble">Friday Housing News: Riders On The Bubble</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/06/friday-housing-news-riders-on-bubble.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114948431679021434Mon, 05 Jun 2006 05:08:49 +00002006-06-04T22:11:57.256-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Housing Market: Watching David Lereah"><br />The mighty Bubble Meter has recently launched David Lereah Watch, a <a href="http://www.blogtelevision.net/" title="BlogTelevision.net: Fresh Videos identified from millions of Blogs">blog</a> dedicated to upending the worm-infested rock upon which Mr. Lereah prognosticates like the Thinker. <br />He thinks the trend crested in 2005. With rising interest rates, tighter lending standards and slower price appreciation, Lereah expects second-home sales to drop this year to 30 percent of all existing-home sales, and maybe into the 20 percent range.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/" title="Housing Market: Watching David Lereah">Housing Market: Watching David Lereah</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/06/housing-market-watching-david-lereah.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114788266663455007Wed, 17 May 2006 16:15:07 +00002006-05-17T09:17:46.913-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Demand For Home Loans Drops 5.5%"><br />Reuters reports a drop in mortgage applications: Mortgage applications fell for the first time in three weeks, as a near four-year high in interest rates dissuaded consumers from taking out loans, an industry trade group said Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity for the week ended April 7 fell 5.5% to 579.4 from the previous week's 612.8.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://bighousingbubble.blogspot.com/2006/04/demand-for-home-loans-drops-55.html" title="Demand For Home Loans Drops 5.5%">Demand For Home Loans Drops 5.5%</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/demand-for-home-loans-drops-55.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114762400612080464Sun, 14 May 2006 16:24:13 +00002006-05-14T09:26:47.150-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Stat Correlation Of The Day: GDP And New Housing Starts"><br />Calculated Risk <br />Kasriel takes the Rosenberg analysis one step further by plotting the quarterly average observations of the year-over-year change in economic growth against the year-over-year change in new-home sales, which he then advanced by three quarters. <br />Calculated Risk says New Home Sales is one of my favorite leading indicators of future economic activity.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=549" title="Stat Correlation Of The Day: GDP And New Housing Starts">Stat Correlation Of The Day: GDP And New Housing Starts</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/stat-correlation-of-day-gdp-and-new.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114758380096613106Sun, 14 May 2006 05:14:09 +00002006-05-13T22:16:40.976-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Buying and Selling: Housing Bubble Goes Mainstream"><br />When media sources ranging from the fast-<a href="http://genetics-and-food.on-topic.net/" title="Genetics and Food Topics | Genetics and Food News, Glossary and More - Everything you need to know about Genetics and Food">food</a> news of USA TODAY to the so-far-right-it-has-whiplash Weekly Standard are discussing the housing bubble in real, honest terms, you know for certain that it's arrived. As gleeful as I am to see all the "market never goes down" types get their just desserts (Would you like cherries with that, David Lereah?), we can't forget that these are real people, suffering real problems.<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/weblogs/news/archives/2006/04/buying_and_sell_6.html" title="Buying and Selling: Housing Bubble Goes Mainstream">Buying and Selling: Housing Bubble Goes Mainstream</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/buying-and-selling-housing-bubble-goes.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114758380032688109Sun, 14 May 2006 05:14:08 +00002006-05-13T22:16:40.576-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Housing Market: Watching David Lereah"><br />The mighty Bubble Meter has recently launched David Lereah Watch, a <a href="http://idaho.travelbn.com/" title="Idaho Travel Blog -Things to do Places to see">blog</a> dedicated to upending the worm-infested rock upon which Mr. Lereah prognosticates like the Thinker. <br />He thinks the trend crested in 2005. With rising interest rates, tighter lending standards and slower price appreciation, Lereah expects second-home sales to drop this year to 30 percent of all existing-home sales, and maybe into the 20 percent range.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/weblogs/news/archives/2006/04/housing_market_9.html" title="Housing Market: Watching David Lereah">Housing Market: Watching David Lereah</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/housing-market-watching-david-lereah.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114745212843035036Fri, 12 May 2006 16:39:39 +00002006-05-12T09:42:08.433-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Freddie Mac Sees A 'Cooling Market'"><br />The April 2006 Economic Outlook from Freddie Mac is upbeat on housing, but signals skepticism about the issue of housing affordability in the West (Welcome to my nightmare): The cooling housing market in 2006 will deflate some of the affordability pressures as house price growth moderates to the single digits. The lingering question is whether affordability will increase in the West and job creation will return to the Midwest.<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://bighousingbubble.blogspot.com/2006/04/freddie-mac-sees-cooling-market.html" title="Freddie Mac Sees A 'Cooling Market'">Freddie Mac Sees A 'Cooling Market'</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/freddie-mac-sees-cooling-market.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114745212723974304Fri, 12 May 2006 16:39:11 +00002006-05-12T09:42:07.266-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Homeowners Are Strapped, Glued and Screwed"><br />In case you're wondering how "personal savings" is defined, the BEA explains it here : Personal saving is the amount left over from disposable personal income after expenditures on personal consumption, interest, and net current transfer payments. If expenditures on personal consumption, interest, and net current transfers exceed disposable personal income in a quarter, personal saving will be negative.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://bighousingbubble.blogspot.com/2006/04/homeowners-are-strapped-glued-and.html" title="Homeowners Are Strapped, Glued and Screwed">Homeowners Are Strapped, Glued and Screwed</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/homeowners-are-strapped-glued-and.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114740860353737560Fri, 12 May 2006 04:34:15 +00002006-05-11T21:36:43.543-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Commentary: Stop Whining About The Media?s Housing Coverage"><br />On one hand, the investor and real estate brokerage community can place a lot of blame on the media for poor or simplistic coverage of the housing boom, bubble, soft landing, etc. <br />Sure, the purchase decision is an emotional one, but consumers still tend to vote and make decisions on economic terms (ie vote with their wallet) and often don’t make that final decision from a tabloid or other big media headline.<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=552" title="Commentary: Stop Whining About The Media?s Housing Coverage">Commentary: Stop Whining About The Media?s Housing Coverage</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/commentary-stop-whining-about-medias.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114740860314723351Fri, 12 May 2006 04:34:14 +00002006-05-11T21:36:43.176-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="More On 'Media Hype'"><br />My blogging colleague Toddi Gutner got a good discussion going last week when she asked whether or not "housing bubble" talk was just a lot of media hype. Hot Property seems to draw a lot of people who believe in the bubble thesis. <br />One expert who doesn't believe in the bubble, the pictured Raphael Bostic, happens to live in L.A., which is ground zero for a popping bubble in the view of bubble theorists.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2006/04/more_on_media_h.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting" title="More On 'Media Hype'">More On 'Media Hype'</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/more-on-media-hype.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114736942242879860Thu, 11 May 2006 17:41:14 +00002006-05-11T10:43:42.436-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Buying a Home Can Make You Rich Slowly"><br />You're not buying a house just to flip it and make a quick buck. In the beginning, Bach explains the Philosophy Behind the Automatic Millionaire Homeowner: You can't get rich renting; you don't need a lot of money for a down payment on a home; you don't need good credit to buy a home; you should buy a home even if you have credit card debt; you can build a fortune by buying just a few homes over the course of a lifetime.<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://uscondex.blogspot.com/2006/03/buying-home-can-make-you-rich-slowly.html" title="Buying a Home Can Make You Rich Slowly">Buying a Home Can Make You Rich Slowly</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/buying-home-can-make-you-rich-slowly.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114736942160196786Thu, 11 May 2006 17:41:14 +00002006-05-11T10:43:41.996-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="NY Magazine Questions Miami?s Condo Boom"><br />They even Plugged Haute Living’s Real Estate Round Table At a roundtable for Haute Living, a local real-estate magazine, realty executives wouldn?t admit to gloom (do they ever?) but conceded a leveling-off.?It?s not a bubble bursting, it?s normalizing,? says Veronica Cervera of Cervera Real Estate, who notes that last week she sold six apartments at megadeveloper Ugo Colombo?s buzzed-about Epic Residences. more [NY Mag]<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://www.hauteblog.com/2006/04/10/ny-magazine-questions-miamis-condo-boom/" title="NY Magazine Questions Miami?s Condo Boom">NY Magazine Questions Miami?s Condo Boom</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/ny-magazine-questions-miamis-condo.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114729520033560129Wed, 10 May 2006 21:04:14 +00002006-05-10T14:06:40.343-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Real Estate Investments in Vegas, Stay in Vegas"><br />Here's an excerpt from a press release for a real estate research company that highlighted the foreclosure rate: The number of foreclosures in Clark County, Nevada, increased by 36 percent in the first quarter of 2006 compared to the same period in 2005, according to Default Research (http://www.defaultresearch.com), the rapidly growing real estate research company for foreclosure properties.<br /></span><p>Tagged: [existing_link:52351b262f7acf5f246b105ff23f9855]</p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://bighousingbubble.blogspot.com/2006/04/real-estate-investments-in-vegas-stay.html" title="Real Estate Investments in Vegas, Stay in Vegas">Real Estate Investments in Vegas, Stay in Vegas</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/real-estate-investments-in-vegas-stay.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114729519977992992Wed, 10 May 2006 21:04:12 +00002006-05-10T14:06:39.853-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Los Angeles and California Are Cooling Quickly"><br />Inman News reports on a cooling trend in California real estate: "There is no justification for the prices we're seeing now," Christopher Thornberg, chief economist at UCLA's Anderson School of Business, said when issuing the school's gloomy quarterly economic forecast last week. Thornberg predicts that the downturn now under way will cost the <a href="http://idaho.travelbn.com/" title="Idaho Travel Blog -Things to do Places to see">state</a> a staggering 200,000 jobs in the real estate and construction industries alone.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://bighousingbubble.blogspot.com/2006/04/los-angeles-and-california-are-cooling.html" title="Los Angeles and California Are Cooling Quickly">Los Angeles and California Are Cooling Quickly</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/05/los-angeles-and-california-are-cooling.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114620287441875027Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:39:08 +00002006-04-27T22:41:14.436-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Hedge Around Your Home"><br />Miami is also the strongest market since the index began in 1987 and its appreciation has been double that of Denver in the period since. Marc Chandler, an economist at Brown Brothers Harriman and a one-time trader on the floor of the CME, complains it does not provide a like for like guide to prices over time, notably because it excludes the impact of home improvement, which he says contributes to the disequilibrium housing has in the economy.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://uscondex.blogspot.com/2006/04/hedge-around-your-home.html" title="Hedge Around Your Home">Hedge Around Your Home</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/hedge-around-your-home.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114563903683127902Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:02:01 +00002006-04-21T10:03:57.106-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="L.A. Median Home Price Tops Half A Million!"><br />They use an increase in the median home price to argue that the bubble isn't popping? If only two houses sold and one was $1 million and the other $2 million, the median price would be $1.5 million, but so what? With Los Angeles' median home price doubling in such a short period? giving homeowners more equity than they imagined a few years ago? it's no wonder that Los Angeles appears on many lists of the nation's most overvalued housing markets.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubble.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://bighousingbubble.blogspot.com/2006/04/la-median-home-price-tops-half-million.html" title="L.A. Median Home Price Tops Half A Million!">L.A. Median Home Price Tops Half A Million!</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/la-median-home-price-tops-half-million.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114556871416854981Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:30:00 +00002006-04-20T14:31:54.176-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Percentage of Reduced Listings Per Market"><br />Sacramento actually saw a small decline in total percentage of reduced homes.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubbles.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://bubbletracking.blogspot.com/2006/04/percentage-of-reduced-listings-per.html" title="Percentage of Reduced Listings Per Market">Percentage of Reduced Listings Per Market</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/percentage-of-reduced-listings-per.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114556871389738380Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:30:00 +00002006-04-20T14:31:53.903-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Buyer (And Seller) Beware"><br />You hear stories about sellers slashing listing prices to attract buyers, but home prices nationally have risen more than 10% over the past year. That leads people to take more risks than they should. The idea here is that if people's monthly payments to own a house are much higher than what they would spend to rent the same place, tax considerations included, then they must be banking on prices going up so they can sell for a profit someday.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubbles.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://uscondex.blogspot.com/2006/04/buyer-and-seller-beware.html" title="Buyer (And Seller) Beware">Buyer (And Seller) Beware</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/buyer-and-seller-beware.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114556870064968667Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:29:47 +00002006-04-20T14:31:40.653-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Random thoughts on the days news - and somehow, it all ties together like Kevin Bacon"><br />Hamas gets $50 Million from Iran, then a suicide bomber strikes Israel, and Hamas says it's the Palestinians right of self defence. Iran/Hammas now joined at the hip and simply executing their strategy. <br />Oh, the axis of oil (I mean evil) is spreading quickly The Exxon guy gets paid $400 Million on his way out the door, while you're all filling up with $3 gas. Gold, Silver and Oil all hit fresh highs today.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubbles.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2006/04/random-thoughts-on-days-news-and.html" title="Random thoughts on the days news - and somehow, it all ties together like Kevin Bacon">Random thoughts on the days news - and somehow, it all ties together like Kevin Bacon</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/random-thoughts-on-days-news-and.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114556870040745189Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:29:46 +00002006-04-20T14:31:40.413-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="How the UK press sees it - the US bubble as &quot;speculative madness&quot;"><br />Not like they don't have their own bubble to deal with, but it is interesting to see how over-our-heads they think we are (and I agree). As fitting testimony to the bubble, estate agents, surveyors, and the army of workers linked to property made up 55pc of the 2m jobs created by the US economy from 2000 to 2005, according to Moody's. It warned that the drag on growth could reach 1.5pc of GDP by next year if property stalls.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubbles.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://housingpanic.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-uk-press-sees-it-us-bubble-as.html" title="How the UK press sees it - the US bubble as &quot;speculative madness&quot;">How the UK press sees it - the US bubble as "speculative madness"</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/how-uk-press-sees-it-us-bubble-as.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114556867263346733Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:29:19 +00002006-04-20T14:31:12.636-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Housing News: Now 100% 75% Bubble Free"><br />Follow the money trail--if using legislation and advocacy doesn't work, pressure the lenders to make changes or have them be embarrassed through exposing their risky portfolios. And the National Association of Home Builders said the industry could be in danger of losing a significant portion of its labor force if immigration reform doesn't include a guest worker program and a program to address illegal immigrant issues.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubbles.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://weblog.housing.com/weblogs/news/archives/2006/04/housing_news_no.html" title="Housing News: Now 100% 75% Bubble Free">Housing News: Now 100% 75% Bubble Free</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/housing-news-now-100-75-bubble-free.htmlReal Estate Prohttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/26070671/posts/full/114556862012610261Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:28:26 +00002006-04-20T14:30:20.150-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span class="post_body" summary="Sacramento County Prices Rally for Second Month in a Row"><br />The real estate market in Sacramento has slowed considerably from last year, but the Bubblers* took it on the chin in March when both the median and average sale prices increased for the second straight month. The average price increased by.28% from February to March, but taking the Bubblers at their word that the median is the more statistically important number, we come up with a more substantial 1.25% increase.<br /></span><p>Tagged: <a href="http://bubbles.realestatebn.com/" rel="tag"><strong>Bubble</strong></a></p><br /><br/><br /><a href="http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2006/sacramento-county-prices-rally-for-second-month-in-a-row_202.html" title="Sacramento County Prices Rally for Second Month in a Row">Sacramento County Prices Rally for Second Month in a Row</a><br /><br/><br /></div></div>http://bubble.realestatebn.com/2006/04/sacramento-county-prices-rally-for.htmlReal Estate Pro