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This Year’s Housing Crisis

Well it’s 2010, and the New York Times has a piece worth a read about the current 2010 version of The Housing Crises.

“The financial crisis and Great Recession have their roots in the housing bust. When it comes, a lasting recovery will be evident in a housing rebound. Unfortunately, housing appears to be [...]

U.S. housing market meltdown not over yet: Zandi

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com said yesterday in an interview with Reuters that he expected home prices to resume their decline by early next year as foreclosure sales pick up again.

“The housing crash is not over,” he said.

“Home prices, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home [...]

Homeowners who ‘strategically default’ on loans a growing problem

From the LA Times, at http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/news/la-fi-harney20-2009sep20,0,2560658.story :

” A study shows that people who abruptly and intentionally abandon their mortgages often have high credit scores, in stark contrast with most financially distressed borrowers.”

“Research using a massive sample of 24 million individual credit files has found that homeowners with high scores when they [...]

But What Really Is Negative Equity?

Mark Hanson has an interesting article about what exactly can be defined as “Negative Equity”?

http://mhanson.com/blog

It is a very important question, as the answer determines how upwardly mobile the home-owning population really is.

“If homeowners can’t sell for enough to pay a Realtor 6%, extract the down on the new property, and pay for moving [...]