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"With stated-income mortgages, some may blur truth to get into a home - and get in over their heads By Andrew LePage -- Bee Staff Writer Robyn DeLong was in a jam. The self-employed real estate agent was eager to refinance two fourplexes she owns in Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood to...

"Home (equity) For The Holidays Todd Stein & Steven McIntyre The Texas Hedge Report December 24, 2004 Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays – unless you take a look at the mind-numbing amounts of home equity (which took years to build) being pulled out almost...

"A Real Estate Market Timer Shares His Secrets by Blanche Evans Author Robert Campbell is a market timer. He explains his secret to success - the short memories of housing market ups and downs by others. "I've always been fascinated by the market," says Campbell, "All of us are...

Foreclosures soar Home defaults hit highest level since oil bust days of'88 By John Rebchook, Rocky Mountain News December 21, 2004 More than 11,000 real estate foreclosures have been filed in the seven-county Denver area through November, about 18 percent more than in all of last...

Someone that bought in 1990 in the Bay area (or interchange any metro California area) would have lost about 30% at the bottom. Also, if they bought in the peak in 1990 they would have had to wait almost ten years to break even. Quite a long time to wait, especially not knowing if you EVER...

silly silly charts...such nonsense! OWP

wow...and you guys think I am a bear! OWP http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=20869970 >>The end game is here Russ. You tell me what happens now.<< prices for toys, cars, houses and extras fall off a cliff. prices for the things that you need to live -- esp food and...

This chart is true...and it shows VERY long term demand. This goes along with exactly what Billbuild and others have been saying, that in the very long term they believe in real estate and are bullish. I myself own two homes and am keeping both. It would clobber me to sell the rental and I only...

www.hahnscorner.com "Market comments on Wednesday morning, December 15 We are approaching a very important inflection point in the equity markets. Euphoria and greed surrounding the year end Santa Claus rally are taking the major market indices up, as the momentum indices diverge...

December 13, 2004 Foreclosures.com: California Home Sales Volume Falling; Corrections to Follow? SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2004--Foreclosures.com, a northern California investment advisory firm specializing in distressed property, reported today that falling sales...

http://piggington.com/ "12.15.04 - The SD Union-Tribune: Not Even Trying Any More "Ah, the Union-Tribune never fails to disappoint. Their latest article is, even by their own lofty standards, positively brimming with the kind of doubletalk and tortured logic that we've come to know and...

Alarm over price of homes Kathleen Pender Remember how the price-earnings ratio for stocks soared before the market crashed? Well, the price-earnings ratio for homes in the Bay Area and greater Los Angeles is also skyrocketing, according to a forthcoming report from UCLA economist Ed...

So long, California Family ties, better schools and simpler, less costly lifestyles are luring families east. By Marnell Jameson Special to The Times December 12, 2004 While on vacation with their three young sons last January, Mark and Ellen Kiely made their decision. Like many...

Please show your data on most loans being fixed and that the VAST majority of people buy for a place to live...this does not appear to be true. "It is interesting (by which I mean frightening) to note that in an environment where a moderate increase in mortgage rates is likely and a huge...

- copper +100 % - steel +100% - health care inflation in the double digits. - College tuition up anywhere from 8 to 15 % per year - Oil +40% - Significant decline in the value of the dollar. - Food prices are up close to 30 % in couple of years -Transportation costs are up. - Property...

I have no idea where you get your data about "prices historically just do not drop" in the Santa Barbara area of California, but that simply just is not so. If you have any data to back up this claim please post it. In 1994, just a few years after the last bubble burst (bubble peak was early...

County real-estate speculation jumps Number of homes resold within six months roughly doubles from last year. By HANG NGUYEN The Orange County Register The home purchase is complete. But the moving van never rolls around. The residence sits vacant because the buyer bought it purely as...

today from http://piggington.com/ "12.7.04 - Interest Rates to Stay Low... For Now The New York Times has a good article on the Asian central banks' dollar buying. In short, the article maintains that no dollar selloff is imminent: "Japan and China hold too much American debt to...

Very telling article written by David Berson of Fannie Mae Economics Dept explaining how some of the the bubble in real estate may be related to the increase of "investors" fueling speculation...owp http://www.fanniemae.com/media/pdf/berson/weekly/101804.pdf ....."Still, job gains...

Sunday, November 21, 2004 The Seattle Times. Scott Burns Easy loans could end up hurting home values DENVER — If advertisements in the Rocky Mountain News are any indication, this is the place to buy a house. Like the old Dire Straits song, it's "money for nothing" in this...