The nation’s mortgage melt down has evolved into America’s real estate crisis amid falling home prices, record foreclosures and weakening consumer confidence and threatens to produce the nation’s worst economic disaster in history, a Housing Predictor study reveals. The catastrophic damage could be so widespread that the crisis could reach $600 billion in losses to… Continue reading Housing Recession or Worst U.S. Economic Disaster Likely
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Home Owners Trust Real Estate Agents
An over-whelming majority of U.S. home owners trust real estate agents to handle their property transactions and will use agentsÂ’ services again, a new Housing Predictor survey has found. The telephone survey of 511 homeowners scattered throughout the nation was conducted during the first two weeks of December at a time when the U.S. housing… Continue reading Home Owners Trust Real Estate Agents
Major Metro Market Forecasts for 2010
The annual major 25 metropolitan housing market forecasts for 2010 are based on population densities in the Greater Metropolitan Statistical areas, and include housing and population density. The forecasts are listed in order from the most populated to the least. Housing Predictor forecasts are issued annually and updated as local market conditions in all of… Continue reading Major Metro Market Forecasts for 2010
Overwhelming Majority Favor Homeownership
By Mike Colpitts An overwhelming majority favor homeownership over renting despite the housing downturn, according to a new study. The results were found as part of a Fannie Mae survey that asked a variety of questions revolving homeownership and the economy. An astonishing 85% of respondants said they favor homeownership over renting based on the… Continue reading Overwhelming Majority Favor Homeownership
Winning in Real Estate Crisis
by Robert Jones Construction workers are re-tiling their bathrooms, real estate agents are taking jobs as waiters and waitresses, and mortgage brokers are sitting around watching TV. The collapse of the housing market has been brutal on just about everyone, it seems, with any connection to the industry. Well, almost everyone. Attorneys are busier than… Continue reading Winning in Real Estate Crisis
Affordable Home Owners Insurance
Home owners insurance policies have sky-rocketed in some states, while others are seeing their policy prices remain close to the same. All this has occurred amid record high profits in the insurance industry. Last year insurance companies netted $68-billion, while insurance policies cover less and cost more. In 2005 insurance companies profited a record $48-billion.… Continue reading Affordable Home Owners Insurance
Isaac Poses $36 Billion in Storm Damage
By Mike Colpitts As it roars toward the Gulf Coast to make landfall forecast to turn into a hurricane, tropical storm Isaac poses more than $36 billion in financial losses to the Gulf Coast, according to a real estate research firm. An estimated 269,081 homes and other residential properties in just seven major metropolitan areas… Continue reading Isaac Poses $36 Billion in Storm Damage
Seismic Shift in U.S. Restrains Housing Market
By Kevin Chiu Consumer doubts over the banking system, political divisions in Washington, D.C., nagging high unemployment, a growth in the understanding among the U.S. population of political corruption and doubts about the economy are developing a seismic shift in the housing market. The shift has slowly been taking place for more than ten years,… Continue reading Seismic Shift in U.S. Restrains Housing Market
Trio Pays $5.3-Million in Refinancing Scam
By Ryan Jackson A mortgage broker and two owners of three nursing homes have agreed to pay $5.325-million to resolve allegations in a mortgage refinancing scam to the federal government. In exchange for the financial penalty, federal prosecutors will not pursue criminal charges against the trio. The settlement is part of the federal government’s crackdown… Continue reading Trio Pays $5.3-Million in Refinancing Scam
Double Digit Appreciation Threatens Recovery
By Mike Colpitts Double digit housing appreciation being experienced in some of what were the hardest hit U.S. housing markets threatens to de-stabilize prices, add to consumer doubts about the economy and threatens the housing recovery, according to an analysis of cities that have experienced wild appreciation over the past few months. Higher home values… Continue reading Double Digit Appreciation Threatens Recovery