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Are Homebuilders, Home Improvement Stores Coming Back? (NVR, TOL, PHM, HOV, DHI, BZH, HD, LOW)

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 12:31 pm

Stocks in homebuilders have been down so low for so long that almost anything look like up. Recent earnings releases have indicated that new orders are improving, but much of ...
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Home Price Improvement Is Geographically Diverse

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:47 am

The housing crisis has been the worse in five states -- Nevada, California, Florida, Michigan and Arizona. A recovery has begun in states that have almost nothing in common geographically ...
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Pending Home Sales Surge 10.4%

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 10:29 am

Pending home sales rose a remarkable 10.4% in October with particular strength in the Northeast. The figures come a day after down beat data on home prices from S&P/Case Shiller, ...
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Farming Pays Big: Higher Income & Asset Values Drive Farming in 2011 into 2012

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 6:31 pm

The next time you sing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" you might want to consider that it is really "Rich Man McDonald" if the USDA report is as clear as ...
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Negative Equity Continues Fight Against Housing Prices

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 1:57 pm

Housing prices are back to where they were at the start of 2003, and things are not getting any better.  CoreLogic showed that negative equity data showed that 10.7 million, ...
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My Problem With The Angie’s List IPO (ANGI)

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 10:30 am

Angie’s List Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) is entering the world of public companies and the initial public offering raised $114 million.  This is a consumer review website and it claims to have over ...
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Mortgage Applications Fall Again (KBH, LEN, PHM, DHI, BZH, XHB)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 9:45 am

Mortgage interest rates remain historically low, but buyers are either unwilling or unable to take advantage of the low rates. After three straight weeks of increases in mortgage applications, borrowers ...
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The Cities Where People Finally Want to Buy Homes

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 3:47 am

Many Americans are planning to buy homes in the areas that have been hardest-hit by the real estate crisis, according to housing data released today. Real estate research agency Trulia ...
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Chimera Accounting Review, A Lesson For Other Mortgage REITs (CIM, NLY, AGNC, HTS, MORT)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 11:01 am

Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is the mortgage REIT which we used to dub "the vulture mortgage REIT" because of its targets in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities. Usually a delay in a ...
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Homebuilder Profitable Again (DHI, PHM, LEN, TOL, KBH, HD, LOW)

Posted: November 11, 2011 at 10:05 am

The collapse of the US housing market has been among the most stubborn problems facing the US economy for the past four years. Construction jobs have vanished, home values have ...
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Nevada and California Still Trapped in Foreclosure Vise

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 6:30 am

No matter how much better the real estate market appears to be or how much worse it actually is, two states cannot escape a collapse that has continued for three ...
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The Cities Where Foreclosure Rates Are Skyrocketing

Posted: November 9, 2011 at 8:16 pm

Foreclosures have increased 14% between the second and third quarter of 2011, following five straight quarters where the number of foreclosures has gone down. This increase could dampen the recovery ...
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New Foreclosures Smash Albuquerque, Boston, Sarasota, And Cincinnati

Posted: November 9, 2011 at 8:12 am

Foreclosures which had been delayed by the robo-signing scandal and bankrutpcy overflow in some courts have hit some housing markets with a vengeance. It is yet another examples that the crisis is ...
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Underwater Mortgages Go More Underwater, Miami and Phoenix Hit

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 4:57 pm

The number of underwater mortgages in the U.S. increased again in the third quarter. That makes sense because by most measures home values have fallen throughout the period. It also ...
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Cities Where Home Prices Continue to Collapse

Posted: November 2, 2011 at 5:02 am

The rampant growth and subsequent collapse of the U.S. housing market has had far-reaching consequences that are still felt today. In some cities houses lost more than 60% of their value, ...
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