Housing Market Insight – July 19th Edition

Will the sand states take until after 2025 for prices to recover?  An article this week thinks so.  Also this week, a new trend is emerging in foreclosure notices, concrete evidence that rents have stabilized, and updates on interest rates and mortgage purchase activity.
Mortgage Rates Hold at Record Low
Freddie Mac’s most recent mortgage interest survey [...]

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Housing Market Insight – July 19th Edition

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What are the most EFFECTIVE strategies for Real Estate Marketing? Dangerous Question?

It’s that word “Effective” that I want you to focus in on. What does “effective” mean? Why is it that I asked this question at a Real Estate Workshop and was told that it was such a dangerous word? How can you identify what marketing strategies to concentrate on and which ones to push to [...]

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What are the most EFFECTIVE strategies for Real Estate Marketing? Dangerous Question?

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Toll Brothers Forms Distressed Real Estate Business

Toll Brothers Forms Distressed Real Estate Business Bloomberg News, July 19, 2010 Toll Brothers Inc., the largest luxury U.S. homebuilder, formed a subsidiary to invest in distressed real estate. Toll created Gibraltar Capital and Asset Management LLC…(read more)

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Real Estate’s Last Samurai

Most areas of the United States had real estate prices hit their zenith about four years ago. Initially a good number of people saw prices declines as a temporary correction before values would resume an upward trajectory. As the months passed many people started to abandon that view. When months became years there were few people [...]

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Real Estate’s Last Samurai

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OP-ED COLUMNIST; The Class War We Need

Ross Douthat Op-Ed column holds that impulse to initiate class warfare against profligate homeowners walking away from their debts must be channeled in constructive direction; suggests that solution is not to tax high rollers’ incomes more heavily but to remove tax breaks for wealthy that are no more than subsidies covered by tax dollars of middle-class; holds that most pernicious sort of redistribution of wealth is not from successful to poor, but from industrious middle class to reckless, unp…

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Rescued From Blight, Losing Their Grip

Hundreds of buildings that were part of New York’s efforts to divest itself of decrepit buildings are falling back into severe financial trouble.

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