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interest rates: War Is Declared in 02/24/09 Real Estate Market Report by Mortgage Consultant Ed Bisquera - 02/25/09 08:00 PM
[For the most current issue click here] February 24, 2009 Real Estate & Economic Report from Ed Bisquera of Mortgage Express in the metro markets of Portland, Oregon & Vancouver, Washington. Featuring news for homebuyers, homeowners, realtors and the general real estate market. Watch this video below End of video War is Declared Congress and the President have declared war on the weak economy and especially on the housing market. That makes sense because it is the housing market that caused the economy to collapse and we will not have a recovery without a healthy or at least stable housing sector. … (1 comments)
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interest rates: Volatility reported in 01/27/09 Real Estate Market Report by Mortgage Consultant Ed Bisquera - 01/28/09 03:12 PM
[For the most current issue click here] January 28, 2009 Real Estate & Economic Report from Ed Bisquera of Mortgage Express metro markets of Portland, Oregon & Vancouver, Washington. Featuring news for homebuyers, homeowners, realtors and the general real estate market.
Volatility
If we could sum up the markets in one word right now, the word would be "volatility." The past several days we were volatile on the downside for stocks and bonds. And up for oil. It is interesting because at least one pattern was broken. In the past few months rates and oil prices … (1 comments)
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interest rates: Why are interest rates seemingly rising lately? It's simple... - 01/22/09 01:34 PM
You may be wondering why rates are rising again. Simply, borrower demand is driving up pricing, because banks raise their rates as the available capacity starts to feel pressure and leads to them wanting to realize greater profits (not such a big surprise here). Hopefully this will ease demand, so if rates continue to see demand from borrowers, they (banks, in reaction to investors) start to drive the pricing of interest rates up to ease the capacity. You'll see this occur, because it's basically the rule of supply and demand, amongst other factors as you will read below in this re-post of … (4 comments)
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interest rates: Will recession end? 01/20/09 Real Estate Market Report for Portland, OR & Vancouver, WA - 01/21/09 03:25 PM
[For the most current issue click here] January 20, 2009 Real Estate & Economic Report from Ed Bisquera of Mortgage Express metro markets of Portland, Oregon & Vancouver, Washington. Featuring news for homebuyers, homeowners, realtors and the general real estate market. What Will Cause The Recession To End?
To understand what will cause the recession to end, we must understand what caused the recession. There were many causes, but the most visible culprit was an uncontrolled real estate boom. First it was the sub-prime crisis halting the boom. The government indicated that real estate would weather the crisis. Well, the … (0 comments)
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interest rates: Some Daunting Numbers for US in Real Estate Market Report for 01/13/09 - 01/13/09 12:20 PM
[For the most current issue click here] Jan 13, 2009 Real Estate & Economic Report from Ed Bisquera of Mortgage Express metro markets of Portland, Oregon & Vancouver, Washington. Featuring news for homebuyers, homeowners, realtors and the general real estate market. Daunting Numbers It was not like we were not warned. They were expected. Yet, the reality of the numbers were quite sobering. The employment statistics for December and 2008 were horrific to say the least. Over 2.5 million jobs were lost in 2008 and the loss in December alone was over 500,000. The job losses caused the unemployment rate to … (1 comments)
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interest rates: How Housing Prices Performing In Long Run? in 01/06/09 Real Estate, Mortgage, Market & Economic Report - 01/06/09 12:05 PM
Below is today's Real Estate Report, Economic Commentary and Mortgage Rate Review, courtesy of blog from Ed Bisquera, Mortgage Consultant to Oregon & Washington (Vancouver, Washington & Portland, Oregon metro areas).
January 6, 2009
The Big Question - How Are Housing Prices Performing?
In the past week we gave some perspective regarding how housing prices have performed in the long run. Despite the recent precipitous drop in prices, housing as an investment performs strongly when you look at the big picture. On the other hand, we can’t ignore the fact that prices have fallen significantly in the … (0 comments)
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interest rates: 2.0% Mortgage Rates? in Dec 23, 2008 Real Estate Report Portland Oregon Economic commentary, Mortgage Rates and News - 12/30/08 06:14 PM
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interest rates: Holiday greetings with a few words of inspiration..Best wishes everyone! - 12/11/08 11:58 AM
Hi all, just wanted to wish you and yours Happy Holidays and share with you these words of inspiration during this season. May you all have a great holiday season and a blessed new year.
Thank you again for all your well wishes, comments, words of wisdom, advice and friendship. I've learned a lot from many other of you blogging here on Activerain, this short time I've been here and I look forward to getting to know many more of you "virtually" over the coming months, as we survive through this Real Estate market.
Sincerely,
Ed, Jaz (12) & … (5 comments)
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