- by New Deal democratWe got a blizzard of November and December data this morning across all three - coincident, short leading, and long leading -...
Housing inventory has collapsed to all-time lows this year. Lack of inventory continues to be one of the biggest risks to the housing market. The post...
Pending home sales beat estimates and we can say the 2021 housing crash bears are even worse than the 2020 housing crash bears. The post Pending...
What does news about the spread of the new Omicron variant mean for mortgage rates? Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami lays out what to watch. The post...
NAR's existing home sales for October came in at a solid beat of estimates. What does that mean for the housing forecast? The post Existing home...
The flash November PMIs would be the main focus in the week ahead if it were more normal times. But these are not normal times, and...
Home Ownership Elusive As Rise In Cost Of Mortgage Payments Far Outpace Wage Growth Authored by Petr Svab via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For Americans...
New Zealand dollar hits 1-month low The New Zealand dollar remains under pressure in what has been a rough week for the currency. NZD/USD has fallen...
New Zealand dollar closing in on 70 level The New Zealand dollar is in negative territory for a third straight day. NZD/USD is currently trading at...
In this 11-05-21 issue of "Did The Fed Just Set The Stock Market Up For A Crash." Market Pushes Higher As Speculation Increases The Fed's Third...
In this 11-05-21 issue of "Did The Fed Just Set The Stock Market Up For A Crash." Market Pushes Higher As Speculation Increases The Fed's Third...
Homeowners with low-cost debt and good cash flow are not motivated to provide any significant cut to home prices when they sell. HW+ Premium Content The...
Futures Meltup To New All Time High As November Begins With A Bang US futures and European stocks rose to a new record high to start...
US stocks continue to rise as the economy shows it was able to take the delta variant hit in the third quarter. Optimism is high that...
What is the Federal Reserve Hiding From Us? "The most inappropriate monetary policy that I've seen maybe in my lifetime."- Paul Tudor Jones on the Federal...
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial stock averages made new all time highs last week as bonds sold off, the 10 year Treasury note yield...
US Existing Home Sales Surge In September As Price Acceleration Slows Following August's surprise tumble in existing home sales (while pending- and new-home sales rose), analysts...
Macro headwinds sure made it challenging for investors to make good money out of the benchmark S&P 500 index in the third quarter. But did ones...
According to the latest UBS annual Global Real Estate Bubble Index released today, Toronto home prices now rank as the second biggest bubble in the world and,...
Homeownership Is The Least Affordable Since 2008 With Shelter Inflation About To Explode Yesterday we asked a rhetorical question: how can (record high) home prices be...
Saving For A Home-Downpayment Now Takes Even Longer... Thank The Fed America's working-poor, or put another way - whatever is left of the middle class -...
The Coming "Reversion To The Mean" Of Economic Growth Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, From stimulus boom to income thud, the coming “reversion to the mean” of...
From stimulus boom to income thud, the coming "reversion to the mean" of economic growth is happening faster than economists expected. We previously noted that while...
Household Net Worth Hits Record $142 Trillion, Up $31 Trillion Since COVID, But There Is A Catch... Another quarter, another record high in (1%er) household net...
- by New Deal democratLet’s take a look at the affordability (or not!) of housing, since there is no economic news of note today.Last week the...
While the Fed’s interest rate policy certainly has an influence on mortgage rates, there is by no means a one-to-one correlation between the two. The post...
The Fed Is Helping Facilitate Trailer Park Evictions Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve is helping corporate real estate investors evict poor people...
During the pandemic, national home values and housing activity soared as mortgage rates declined to historic lows. Under the canonical “user cost” house price model, home...
It’s the current, not the waves, that will propel longstanding changes in the American housing market, said Logan Mohtashami, HousingWire’s lead analyst. HW+ Premium Content. The...
Americans Face A Nightmare Scenario: Record High Home Prices, Record High Rents... And OER Is About To Explode While the Fed keeps touting the "transitory" nature...