Real estate blog entries tagged with real estate market by Matt Heaton (Timu Corp - CEO, ActiveRain

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real estate market: Failure is Important - 09/27/08 12:00 PM

If you can't guess from my previous dozen posts in the last week, I'm referencing what's going on in our financial system right now and the bailout bill. One of my biggest arguments with much of the government intervention in the past year and in particular the bailout in front of … (13 comments)

real estate market: Update on the FED rate cut - 10 year treasury increasing - 09/20/07 02:10 PM

Yesterday I wrote a short post on my thoughts on the FED cutting by 50 basis points and what I thought would be the effect on mortgage rates and possibly the economy going forward. I said that I thought the cut was a very dangerous move despite the obvious hardships facing our … (5 comments)

real estate market: My take on the FED rate cut and mortgage rate effects - 09/19/07 12:32 PM

As pretty much everybody knows the FED cut the overnight lending rate by 50 basis points as well as the rate at the discount window 50 basis points yesterday. The question is, what does it actually mean and what will it accomplish.
My take on the cut
Personally, I was very surprised at … (2 comments)

real estate market: Subprime meltdown and the real estate market - 03/13/07 03:22 PM

Watching the meltdown in the subprime market the last couple weeks has been kinda shocking. The fact that it's happening or even how fast it's happening isn't the shocking part, it's the fact that how many people act totally surprised by it, is what gets me. The lending standards, particularly over the … (46 comments)

real estate market: Market conditions in my cul-de-sac - 08/27/06 12:15 PM

I moved into my first house located in Bothell, WA about 4 years ago and paid $225k for my house. The cul-de-sac I live in contains 6 other houses. The one marked $426k on the map seems that have changed hands several times since I moved in. Several months ago it hit the market again with … (4 comments)

real estate market: Deal sweetening and upward commission pressures - 07/29/06 07:37 PM

While I was sitting in a coffee shop yesterday in San Francisco I read an article in the USA Today titled "Home sellers sweeten deals" Probably everyone has heard of the rapid rise in builders offering more incentives as regional markets slow. The article states than 75% of builders now offer … (2 comments)

real estate market: Bubble? My views on the housing market. - 07/07/06 11:42 AM

Since last weeks blog topic was asking members to write about what they see happening from the ground level as far a market slowdown, I thought I would throw in my two cents. The whole topic of a bubble in the housing market has interested me for several years, long before the … (2 comments)

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