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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Interesting that this very official sounding "Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard" mentioned again and again in this "study" turns out owes it's soul to the housing industry! When you dig a little deeper you can see the list of contributors to this "Joint Center". This "Nicolas Retsinas"...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Pasted from a real estate blog...could that be the smell of smoke in the theater? Perhaps a hint of things to come as A.R.M.S. come home to roost...OWP "Anyway, one of my better brokers is in Sacramento. So yesterday I asked him how the residential market is up there in Sac town (of course I...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Hey, anyone else watching the home builders today? DHI, for example, is also taking a "breather" today....down almost 7% today, down 13 % in the last week, down 22% in the last month, down 46% from highs. Ouch! OWP
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    I have always been told that more houses sell in the first six months of the year compared to the latter six months. This chart is in agreement with that. In this chart it is interesting how the price action starts to roll over at the end of August in 2004, sooner in 2005 by the end of July...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Looking for appraisers willing to sell their souls for $$$. Future fall guys...OWP
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Perhaps Florida really is different. This comment below must have been right after all! "A totally new economic model"...haven't we heard that somewhere before??? OWP "In Miami, Ron Shuffield, president of Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell Realtors, predicted that a limited supply of land coupled with...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    I don't rent, I own. Since 1984. I'll be here at the end of the year as well....OWP
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    It's always interesting to see Realtors(tm) post tarted up glamour shots and their sales from the last few years in slick ads and on bus stop benches. And what does that prove exactly??? I wonder how her sales are in the last three months....In my area, sales are off 41% from last year. The...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Newbie realtor with poor credit needs unsecured loan...is this a good investment??? lol...OWP
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    It's getting UGLY today...KBH just broke a six year uptrend this morning. Extreme technical damage all around this asset class...OWP
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Facing falling sales, suburban Los Angeles real estate tries to re-invent itself...OWP 5/21/2006 12:00 AM Seller hopes model behavior will give homes lived-in appeal BY BRENT HOPKINS, Staff Writer LA Daily News SANTA CLARITA - The scent of baking scones wafts through the house as...
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    housing not bubbling

    The long run is here, and the conundrum is dead. Lots of individual flipper pain behind these numbers, if not now....soon. Inventory is building in this MLS....in the last 14 days up 14%! The May bar is not finished updating! The new bubble in real estate is in inventory charts, volume is way...
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    housing not bubbling

    Great "bubble" video by Dr. Chris Thornburg of U.C.L.A....the video runs about an hour. The first bit drags a bit as he sets things up, but by half way is very entertaining. OWP http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2640239019877885520&q=housing+bubble
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    05/08/2006 Dow Jones News Services (Copyright © 2006 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) By Janet Morrissey Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--There are signs a housing slowdown that has gripped certain high-growth markets during the past few quarters, is now spreading...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    Historically home builder stocks have a low PE ratio, even during the last few years of this recent mania. But there is good reason for this, they get roundly clobbered during the enviable busts that follow in this cyclical industry. Imagine Procter and Gamble announcing soap sales were off 30%...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    the bubble hype... “South Florida,'’ he said, ‘’is working off of a totally new economic model than any of us have ever experienced in the past” according to a realtor who predicted that a land shortage will support higher prices indefinitely.” - New York Times, Trading Places...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    HOV guides down today. Hits 52 week lows....as the great unwinding of the building machine continues. OWP
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    http://www.redmondrealtyltd.com/listings.asp?listing=944 "Your chance to own one of the 1000 Islands! Pitch a tent, swim, picnic, hunt, fish, beach your boat. Located near western entrance to International Rift & close to Ivy Lea area marinas. Great views of surrounding islands."...
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    ...the article says "rural, usa" and the author is unnamed.
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    Housing Rolling Along 2

    (cont.) This pattern is happening in rural areas of other states as well. A friend of mine has a farm in Iowa, about the same distance from Des Moines as my property is from the city nearest to me. Her place went on the market about a month before mine. They are experiencing the same...
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