Category: Market research

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05/09/13

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 »

10/21/12

Keywords: Monetary Policy, Interest Rates, Housing Market, Housing Prices more »

10/20/12

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Categories: Market research, Market characteristics
Source: FT Alphaville Keywords: Rental Housing, Interest Rates more »

05/11/12

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

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

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Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, Asia
FT Alphaville on Chinese Real Estate, March 19, 2012 Keywords: Chinese Real Estate, Chinese Real Estate Sales, Chinese Real Estate Prices more »
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

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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 »

02/07/12

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 »

10/11/11

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 »
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 »

09/27/11

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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 »

09/21/11

Permalink 07:17:30 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com Email , 208 words   English (US)
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics
Hill, Claire A., Why Didn’t Subprime Investors Demand (Much More of) a Lemons Premium? (March 1, 2011). Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 74, p. 47, 2011; Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-31Abstract: "The subprime crisis would… more »

09/18/11

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 »

06/29/11

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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 »

05/31/11

The S&P Case Shiller results through March are not good figures. The national home price index hit a new low declining 4.2% at an annualized rate of first quarter of 2011. the ten city composite fell 0.6% in march. 20 city composite fell 0.8% in Marc… more »

05/14/11

Megan McArdle (The Atlantic) about the US home price development.McArdle writes to the graph above: "As this graph from Barry Ritholtz shows, house prices are still well above their historical levels. The government cannot legislate that imbalanc… more »

04/27/11

Permalink 05:55:02 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com Email , 57 words   English (US)
Categories: Market research, United States
Tim Iacono once more published his chart, showing the development of the Case Shiller index over time.Standard & Poor’s reported home prices continued to fall in February, down a whopping 1.1 percent on an unadjusted basis but just 0.2 percent l… more »

03/29/11

Permalink 09:21:15 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com Email , 167 words   English (US)
Categories: Market research, United States
Standard & Poors: Home Prices Off to a Dismal Start in 2011 According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, March 29, 2011 Data through January 2011, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indice… more »
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Categories: Market research, Market characteristics, Europe
Salleo, Carmelo, Albertazzi, Ugo, Eramo, Ginette and Gambacorta, Leonardo, Securitization is Not that Evil after All (March, 15 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1787174 Abstract: "A growing number of studies on the US subprime mar… more »

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