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First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension Thoughts
Money Ning Personal Finance Blog | November 21st 2009 by David Ning
If you want to hit me, punch here. I’m numb and can’t feel it anyway. As we talked about yesterday, the $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit is extended, and that even existing owners who buy will be able to get $6,500. The new requir read more
The Prophetic Guidance Of JP Morgan!
WebAddict | November 21st 2009 by Varun Dave
Recent news posted stating that JP Morgan was hiring 1200 loan officers at locations all across the nation. In case you did not know who they are, they are the wall street bankers who acquired WAMU to get out from under several billion dollars worth read more
U.S. Housing Market In For Rough 2010?
Boom2Bust.com | November 21st 2009 by Christopher E. Hill
“I don’t think the housing crisis is over. I think we’re going to see another leg down.” -Mark Zandi, chief economist, Moody’s Economy.com “The thing that drives our business the most is job creation. If we look at the macro econ read more
Forget about the 2012 Apocalypse Movies because California has En…
Dr. Housing Bubble - How I Learned to Love SoCal and Forget… | November 21st 2009
In the last few days, we have gotten a better picture of macro trends impacting the California economy. You would think that a bad overall economic climate would at least temper the bullish attitude of some folks that think California housing is so read more
Foreclosures and Mortgage Delinquencies: A Tale Of Opposites
Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Blog | November 20th 2009 by Joshua Dorkin
Today’s news seems to bring us a tale of opposites every time they report on the real estate market as it exists at this point in time. For example, an article by the AP just the other day said “the pace at which people fell behind on th read more
Decorating on a small budget
Frugal Bugle | November 20th 2009
I have been looking at wallpaper for the last three weeks. I am busily scraping circa 1980 wallpaper from the office wall and I have finally found some wallpaper that is suitable to replace it. I thought about painting but it makes a nice feature read more
Liases Foras launches RESSEX
Snowcem Paints | November 20th 2009 by Snowcem Paints
Realty research firm Liases Foras on Wednesday launched its Real Estate Sensitivity Index – RESSEX, that will provide structured data and property analysis on the country’s real estate market. RESSEX is a product of detailed micro read more
Invest on the Ground Floor
Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Blog | November 20th 2009 by Joshua Dorkin
My grandfather was born in Guayaquil Ecuador in 1906. He came to America in the 70’s and would tell me stories about his business in Ecuador exporting bananas to the United States. He loved America and all it stood for; he wouldn’t driv read more
Home Buyer Tax Credit Expanded and Extended
Money Ning Personal Finance Blog | November 20th 2009 by David Ning
After a successful trial run that boosted home sales and brought buyers back to the table, the government has extended the $8,000 first-time home buyers tax credit through June 2010. Now it’s not just first-timers who are benefiting — the pres read more
Councillor calls for focus on affordable housing in Lichfield
The Lichfield Blog | November 20th 2009
Councillor Matthew Ellis A councillor has called for affordable homes to be the focus when plans for housing development in Lichfield are drawn up. Staffordshire County Council Cabinet Member for Adults and Wellbeing, Cllr Matthew Ellis, claimed read more
New fed housing program involves 29B in financing n AP
Indio Links | November 20th 2009 by Marvell Angela
AP – A new federal program to support state and local housing finance agencies is expected to involve more than $29 billion in government support, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac disclosed Thursday. Read More New fed housing program involves 29B in read more
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum
Simi Valley Home Buying and Selling Guide | November 19th 2009 by Ted Mackel
The lunatics have taken over the asylum. (CNBC video interview at end of this post) Beside being the song title of a 1980s new wave band (Fun Boy Three), the title of this post may be more accurate than even I realize. I follow the papers, several bl read more
Double Dip Recession Possible If Housing Slide Persists
SayEducate | November 19th 2009 by Matt Keegan
Here’s an unpleasant thought: as the nation gradually pulls away from the worst recession in more than a generation, consumer confidence begins to wane and job creation evaporates. That scenario is entirely possible given the current state of t read more
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Buy Memory Cards Cheap Price | November 19th 2009 by bobobo
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‘Cash For Caulkers’ Next Stimulus?
Boom2Bust.com | November 19th 2009 by Christopher E. Hill
Well, if there’s one thing to be said about the White House and their ideas to “stimulate” the U.S. economy, it’s that they’re creative. From the New York Times’ David Leonhardt yesterday: The one highly visible success of the stimulus pr read more
Talk of a housing market recovery is premature
lesbonner | November 19th 2009 by Les Bonner
“We are still almost a third down on this time last year,” said the Sarah Teather, Liberal Democrat Shadow Housing Minister. Commenting on today’s Council of Mortgage Lenders figures, which shows lending massively down on last year desp read more
Lake County Water Data Shows Need for Environmental Action
Madville Times | November 19th 2009 by Cory Allen Heidelberger
Dakota Water Watch has issued a report on this year's water monitoring projects around eastern South Dakota. For Lake County lakes, the news mixed:Lakes Madison and Brant showed higher than average water clarity, as measured by Secchi disk readings. read more
Fear of Double Dip in Housing
News To U(se) | November 19th 2009
Home Starts Tumble and Mortgage Delinquencies Rise, Casting Cloud Over Recovery We will hear and read a lot about “double dip” in coming months. (…) Just a few months after housing showed signs of leveling off, bad weather and uncertainty read more
What Model ATM is Right For My Business?
finance z | November 19th 2009
Which ATM is the best model for your business? Small retail outlets and convenience stores have become major sites for the installation of ATM’s. The prime motivator for this would be that the shop or convenience store operator is not ready to read more
Modular Home Manufacturers – There To Help
Finance Article Directory | November 19th 2009 by LoveBlogEarn
The latest trend in home building is the modular home. These homes are built to the same standard and code as stick built homes but they are built in a factory in pieces. These pieces are then shipped from the factory to the site where the home will read more
Mortgage Rates
Provides Home Loan info, Home Mortgage Tips and Home Refinan… | November 18th 2009 by Sri Ariantini
Important Information About Mortgage Rates When it comes to mortgage rates there are lot of things that people need to think about. The types of mortgages that are around can have a large bearing when it comes to mortgage rates as that is what they a read more
China Risks Moving World Into Greater Recession
David Westerfield > Blog | November 18th 2009 by David Westerfield
China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, (bracketed insertions and emphasis mine) These are headlines you won’t ever read, that to me are worthy of true news alerts. “By holding the yuan read more
Housing Starts New Privately Owned Housing Units Started (Chart)
All American Investor | November 18th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
New Residential Construction. U.S. Department of Commerce. Thousand of units. 529,000 versus versus 2,207,000, February, 2005 Subscribe to All American Investor via Email Kindle: Amazon's 6" Wireless Reading Device Original content Bob DeMa read more
Demolition in Baclaran turns bloody
URBAN POOR ASSOCIATES NEWS DIGEST | November 18th 2009 by john lagman
12 hurt in Baclaran demolition11/19/2009 | 12:38 AM This page requires a higher version browserTension mars demolition of shanties in Pasay City11/18/2009 | 10:48 AM This page requires a higher version browser12 hurt in demolition in Pasay City11/18/ read more
Israel brushes off Obama criticism over Jerusalem n (AP)
Arab News | November 18th 2009
AP – Israel broke ground on a new housing complex for Jews in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, brushing off President Barack Obama’s criticism that construction in the disputed part of the holy city undermines efforts to relaunch Mideast peac read more
50 Year Low Privately Owned Housing Starts: 5-Unit Structures or…
All American Investor | November 18th 2009 by Bob DeMarco
48,000 units versus 1,000,000 March, 1973. Subscribe to All American Investor via Email Kindle: Amazon's 6" Wireless Reading Device Original content Bob DeMarco, All American Investor read more
Major Kijiji.com security gap already?
You Suck at Kijiji | November 18th 2009
Just hours after launching its new look, a big security hole has been discovered at US ad site Kijiji.com. A twitter user tweeted his Kijiji ad for a home for sale. But what he tweeted was not the ad -- it was the ad preview. A user was able to click read more
EPA Opens Green Homes Website As Resource For Home Buyers and Pro…
Lexington Urban Blog | November 18th 2009 by Scott Schaefer
Home owners, buyers and renters have a new resource for going green indoors and out. The EPA’s new Green Homes Website will help people make their homes greener with tips on reducing energy consumption, carbon footprints, waste generatio read more
A pause in the new home market
Tomorrow's Econony Today | November 18th 2009 by Charles Sherry
New home sales make up less than 10% of overall housing sales, but a plunge in housing starts last month suggests the originally-scheduled end of the new home buyers tax credit had an adverse impact on the market in October. Housing starts fell a st read more
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