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 The Long and the Short of Household Formation
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 posted 1 day ago:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2 Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said... |
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 Please Accost: '1 percent moms who hire disabled guides to cut lines at Disney
By APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich 44 comments, latest 1 day ago:
zzyzzx says I suspect that Disney's real problem with this is that the scammers are undercutting them. Nobody likes the competition! |
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 bmwman91's Buying Adventure Log
By bmwman91 in Mountain View CA 94043 230 comments, latest 2 days ago:
thomaswong.1986 says SFace says It's like buying a BMW to just use the radio. Common in the Bay Area... very common! do those middle aged women really dig the power under the hood of their... |
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 It's great that Bay Area home prices are back to "normal"
By cjogara in Alameda CA 94501 1 comment, latest 2 days ago:
thomaswong.1986 says Normal ? see 1991 to 1997 (or mid 98) regarding "normal" RE prices... and that was under far better economic reasons. DQ has provided some great data over the years but I fail... |
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 Can't enjoy my coffee without Realtor's in the store
By jvolstad in San Antonio TX 78256 5 comments, latest 2 days ago:
jvolstad says APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says Take a shit on their table. Done! |
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Cotati California Police Brutality. Break into private residence and taze person
By APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich 5 comments, latest 2 days ago:
Biff Baxter says This does not belong in the real estate news section. Patrick, This Premium member is spamming this section frequently. Can you ask him nicely to stop? Biff |
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Is the Canadian Housing Market Falling Apart?
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 1 comment, latest 2 days ago:
sam1 says The late-payment rate on otstanding mortgages in Canada is around 0.33% IIRC. Compare to around 5% in the US... As long as that figure is under 1-2% you can't talk of a crash.... |
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 62% of delinquent loans are more than 90 days past due
By golfplan18 in Irvine CA 92620 8 comments, latest 2 days ago:
robertoaribas says how many are 90 days late doesn't really matter. If anything, that percent is low, but it could be low for one of two reasons: 1. banks are actually foreclosing/short selling the majority... |
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Full Recourse Loans Won't Save Canada's Housing Market
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 1 comment, latest 2 days ago:
C Boy says Rational borrowers will reduce consumption Hmmm...I wonder what will happen to the Canadian economy if all of its borrowers turn out to be rational? |
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Can a housing market rally by sustained with fewer homeowners?
By golfplan18 in Irvine CA 92620 posted 2 days ago:
http://ochousingnews.com/news/ Historically, in housing markets that displayed robust price increases, the rally was driven by increasing employment and rising wages. This has long been considered a fundamental of all housing price movements. The logic behind... |
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N.Z. Housing Market May Warrant Interest-Rate Rises, IMF Says
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 1 comment, latest 3 days ago:
APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says There is no reason any 3/2 in Whangarei can't be a seven- or eight-figure property. The IMF hates Freedom! |
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 Declining Police Impact House Prices
By bgamall4 in Menlo Park CA 94025 16 comments, latest 3 days ago:
bgamall4 says chemechie says but I've heard that NYC's big drop in crime came from putting more officers on the streets in the bad areas That helps. In Reno, NV they just opened up a... |
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Keynes was, incredibly, right about the future
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 1 comment, latest 3 days ago:
FunTime says The first comment is a helpful illustration of the difficulty of recognizing the problemPeople consider wanting more so essential they think the problem is nothing enough. Not to say some people don't have... |
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In the Long Run, Niall Ferguson, Keynes Was Right
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 posted 3 days ago:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ Regrettably, Ferguson isn't the only person to suggest that Keynes's analysis should be discounted because of his personal qualities. In 2008, N. Gregory Mankiw, the chairman of the Harvard economics department (and a senior... |
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Why investors cannot imagine the end of the bond market
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 posted 3 days ago:
http://blogs.wsj.com/totalretu Yet fewer than 7% said that “identifying the bond investments that are right for you” would be a major focus for them over the coming year – and 60% said they wouldn’t focus on... |
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The Housing Trap
By Patrick in Menlo Park CA 94025 272 comments, latest 3 days ago:
Alex Rademacher says It all comes down to is it cheaper to rent or is it cheaper to buy .. if you can Rent the home you'd love to live in for less than you... |
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 Challenge To Dogma On Owning A Home
By Heraclitusstudent 7 comments, latest 3 days ago:
Heraclitusstudent says Nonetheless, with this kind of article published in the NYT, it seems there are now some actual political opponents in DC to the real-estate mafia. |
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 Honest info, Phoenix market...
By robertoaribas in Scottsdale AZ 85250 228 comments, latest 3 days ago:
robertoaribas says Phoenix home prices did not rise at all this week on housingtracker.net The price increases have definitely slowed down, now. Not really too surprising, after 80%+ increases since the bottom. Inventory has remained... |
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Foreclosure starts jump in California
By tvgnus 2 comments, latest 3 days ago:
robertoaribas says yeah but notice of trustee sales are down 40% from last year. This increase in foreclosure starts seems dramatic, but is in reality because of the legal changes in california foreclosure process this... |
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Anyone has experience with suing former landlord for return of deposit?
By Straw Man 12 comments, latest 3 days ago:
Straw Man says donjumpsuit says So why don't you wave these facts in front of your previous landlord and see how fast he ponies up that deposit. I heard filing these in small claims court... |
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