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24Aug10 NAR Graphs Show Housing Market Woes Far from Over

Came across these very interesting graphs from the excellent Calculated Risk Blog today: This first graph shows Existing Home Sales from 1994 and forecasted out to Jan 2011. It’s interesting how this corresponds with our other blog post from this morning discussing the woes of the housing market. The artificial boost the homeowner tax credit [...]

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10Aug10 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac REO Inventory Growing, Signals Problems

More housing news about Freddie and Fannie this time. The interesting thing about this is that they obviously are not pushing short sales as hard as they should be, maybe some of those short sale initiatives aren’t working as planned? The article comes courtesy of Michael Kraus, who makes a few interesting observations: (a more [...]

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29Jul10 HAMP and HAFA Analysis by Housing Wire – WRONG!

Housing Wire author Cary Steinberg recently wrote an interesting piece on about HAFA and HAMP. The premise of the article is that HAFA (the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative) will likely be successful because it is an exit strategy for homeowners, allowing them to sell their house for less than they owe – as opposed to [...]

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1Jul10 Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Short Sales Favored over Bank Seizures

Came across this article in the Herald-Tribune on short sales yesterday afternoon discussing short sales in Florida as being preferred to bank seizures. If you have been an active reader of The Art of Short Sales, there is nothing really groundbreaking in that statement! Regardless, it continue to shows how short sales play an important [...]

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23Mar10 The HAFA Program is a Bunch of Crap

The other day I was on Twitter and just generally asking people what they though of the impending HAFA (Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives) program, which is coming down the pike from the Obama administration on April 5th, less than two weeks from today. A lady named Sarah Stelmok, who also happens to run a fantastic [...]

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10Mar10 Analysis and Commentary: Secretary of HUD Releases Report to Congress on the Root Cause of the Foreclosure Crisis

Interested in reading the HUD’s nitty-gritty analysis of the foreclosure crisis? It’s definitely a detailed read, but very informative. In a nutshell (from the Executive Summary of the report); the analysis and report covers: This study of the root causes of the current extremely high levels of defaults and foreclosures among residential mortgages represents the [...]

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