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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Linkage to feed your need from the past week: Yeah, I’d live in it. Check it, the former home of the Detroit Lions, the Silverdome sells for a measly $583k. I’m sure there are 500+ homes in the Twin Cities metro area with a price tag higher than a stadium. A few days ago I [...]

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 [...]

Links from the past week: In case you missed it, the $8000 tax credit was extended and expanded to move-up buyers for $6500. If you are against the tax credit extension like me, the Wall Street Journal put up some good reasons why the tax credit should not be extended. Yeah, I’d live in it. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]