Coach Patti Kouri's (coachpatti) Blog

  Recently, Keeping Current Matters posted an extremely interesting blog by Ken Johnson, PhD, who is at Florida International University, and Editor of the Journal of Housing Research. I found it particularly enlightening, because it addressed the issue of whether there are negative implications ...

The federal government has come up with a lot of interesting ways to rescue the housing industry. As Keeping Current Matters notes, one of those ways was to raise the maximum loan that can be sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (for FHA loans), known as the Conforming Loan Limit. This was a good t...

  We all know that buying a home can seem like a real risk right now. The recent situational assessment at Keeping Current Matters is spot-on; with a still-fragile economy and continuing high unemployment rates, just about everyone who's dipping into the housing marketplace is doing so with extre...

The housing market, like the American economy, is a mess. Unfortunately, it's going to get worse before it gets better. In fact, the experts say that, with the number of properties in foreclosure looming on the horizon, it will be the end of 2012 before any kind of substantive rebound occurs. It...