Category: United States
05/09/13
07:21:49 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
UCLA researchers have found that leading up to the Financial Crisis, subprime lenders employed a novel method of influencing the political process. In addition to campaign contributions to key politicians, they gave special treatment to borrowers represe… more »
11/11/12
05:02:42 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 299 words
Categories: Market characteristics, Europe, United States, Gobal
Schlumpf, Felix, Tessera, Genene and Martínez Gutierrez, Catalina , Market Risk of Real Estate (October 24, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2172299Abstract: "Direct real estate is the largest asset class without readily av… more »
10/21/12
09:41:41 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 9 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
Keywords: Monetary Policy, Interest Rates, Housing Market, Housing Prices more »
05/13/12
08:01:03 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 20 words
Categories: Market characteristics, United States, Asia
Questioning Homeownership as a Public Policy Goal, Cato Policy Analysis No. 696Keywords: US Real Estate Market, Home Ownership, Financial Crisis more »
05/11/12
07:30:21 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 93 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
Forbes: A Monster Real Estate Paradigm Shift Demands A New Direction for Capital, by Michael Messner, May 10, 2012
..."We are witnesses and participants to a perfect storm of enormous and unstoppable trends triggered by the Internet, by Americans down… more »
05/06/12
09:02:16 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 145 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
Christopher L. Foote, Kristopher S. Gerardi, and Paul S. Willen, Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis, Atlanta Fed, Working Paper 2012-7, May 2012Abstract:"We present 12 facts about the m… more »
03/19/12
08:13:42 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 120 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
Barron's: Ready to Rebound, After falling 34% over the past six years, U.S. home prices will soon bottom. They could turn back up by spring 2013
It hit with the ferocity of an Old Testament plague, wiping out large populations of homeowners in the U.S… more »
03/09/12
06:54:34 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 46 words
Categories: Market research, United States
Robert Shiller, Yale University professor and the "Shiller" in the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index, discusses whether the housing market has already hit the bottom: "It could turnaround but I don't see any scientific way to be assured."… more »
02/19/12
10:29:48 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 67 words
Categories: Market characteristics, United States
CNBC: US Housing Among Most Attractive Assets: Marc Faber, Feb. 17, 2012
The housing market in the south of the United States is among the most attractive asset classes in the world, Marc Faber, the editor of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report, told C… more »
02/07/12
03:49:29 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 36 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
The confidence level could massively improve if people start to realize that the housing bottom is reached. Read an interesting post on CalculatedRisk:Calculated Risk: The Housing Bottom is Here, Feb. 6, 2012Keywords: US Housing, Housing Bottom more »
10/22/11
Kazuo Ueda, Japan's Bubble, America's Bubble and China's Bubble, The University of Tokyo, November 2010
Abstract:
"This paper compares the three recent episodes of boom and bust cycles in asset prices: Japan in the late 1980s to the 1990s; the U.S.… more »
10/19/11
Regulatory policy mess cont'd...Keywords: US Real Estate, US Homeowners, Underwater Homeowners more »
10/17/11
Government sponsored and bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are partying, as Gretchen Morgenson reports:NYT: Fannie and Freddie, Still the Socialites, by Gretchen Morgenson, Oct. 15, 2011Nothing wrong with a bit of schmoozing. But it might see… more »
10/11/11
07:52:27 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 78 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
At least early in the financial crisis, the high rate of foreclosures seemed to be due more to households' overreaching than to predatory lending. A disproportionate number of those being foreclosed on were well-educated, well-off and relatively young p… more »
07:13:35 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 129 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
read more about these surprising results here:
Robert B. Avery,
Kenneth P. Brevoort, The Subprime Crisis: Is Government Housing Policy to Blame? Division of Research and Statistics Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 205… more »
09/29/11
01:47:03 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 12 words
Categories: Market characteristics, United States
Watch it on Academic EarthKeywords: US Real Estate, US Home Prices more »
09/27/11
08:02:11 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 52 words
Categories: Market research, United States
MarketWatch: U.S. home prices up for fourth month: Case-Shiller, Sept. 27, 2011
U.S. home prices in July rose for the fourth straight month, according to data released Tuesday, helped by seasonal factors as well as tentative if halting signs of improv… more »
09/18/11
10:04:42 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 57 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, United States
Harvard Economist Martin Feldstein says the U.S. government must tackle falling home prices by helping reduce monthly mortgage payments in order to generate significant employment growth.Harvard's Martin Feldstein: Housing poses greatest threat to U.… more »
09/07/11
06:47:09 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 242 words
Categories: News, Market characteristics, United States
Felix Salmon, on Reuters, worries about the fact that an new bond, Springleaf Mortgage Loan Trust, with subprime loans in the portfolio is rated Triple-A by Standard & Poors whereas the US is not:Reuters: Why the triple-A subprime bond is bad new… more »
06/29/11
06:15:39 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 158 words
Categories: Market research, United States
S&P: April Seasonal Boost in Home Prices, According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price IndicesData through April 2011, released today by S&P Indices for its S&P/Case- Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices… more »
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