Links from the past week: A recent article in Forbes tries to pin down the best housing market, these things change almost monthly but Minneapolis comes in at #4 on the list. Low foreclosures (compared to the rest of the country) rising prices in *some* areas and a good affordability index make it a good [...]
Sunday Mashup
Back from the holiday hiatus, hope everyone’s went great! Here’s the linkage from the past week: Here is some good insight on what might happen to housing once government intervention takes a back seat in the upcoming months via DailyFinance. And here is another link from Calculated Risk on Government support housing. More on borrowers [...]
Sunday Mashup
Linkage from the past week, real estate related: With all the athletes moving teams so often these days, it seems there are a lot of them that are just renting them out while they bounce around the United States until there playing days are over. Many have also said they will never own again until [...]
Sunday Mashup
Sunday Mashup
Here’s some linkage from the past week from real estate related sites I found interesting. There seemed to be a lot this past week. FHA pretty much admits fault on Down Payment Assistance Programs with zero down loans that got homeowners into homes when they were not equipped for homeownership via Calculated Risk. (see 4th [...]
Sunday Mashup
Sunday Mashup
Links from the past week: Lots of issues of potential fraud coming in revolved around the home buyer tax credit. Close to 100k returns are being called into question from the IRS and even a potential four year old. WTF? I’ve been against the extension of the tax of credit, I know weird you would [...]
Sunday Mashup
I haven’t been updating here like I have been in the past… still working on other web projects but here’s the linkage from the past week: News that FHA reserves will drop below the requried limits, restrictions will become tighter if it wasn’t already more difficult for some to get a home loan with solid [...]
Sunday Mashup
Linkage from the past week It doesn’t get any worse than this, in case you haven’t heard yet but a very high up Wells Fargo executive (in charge of the bank-owned properties division) reportedly moved into a property and threw some lavish parties in a Malibu home in the Colony. Yeah, I’d probably live in [...]
Sunday Mashup
Haven’t done this in a few weeks, but it returns with some interesting links real estate related that I have collected over the past week: Yeah, I’d live in this house. Bankruptcy filings and mortgage delinquencies over at Calculated Risk that spreads the data out state by state. Minnesota had just over 5600 bankos in [...]



