RE: “Greasing the skids? Putting numbers to the FHA’s anti-flipping waiver” and “The Semaphore of House Flippers” Always nice when the data validates our theories, which are based on data. As reported in DSNews today – “Survey Finds First-Time Buyers in Short Supply to Absorb Distress” “… a common business model for investors has...
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Positive news for the housing market today from the good folks at Clear Capital reporting  “a quarter-over-quarter national price change of -1.6 percent. Despite the negative quarterly price change, the national index has demonstrated a positive trend since the start of 2011.” Our weekly Price of New Listings measure...
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With the focus on international trade, currency wars, and retaliation from foreign Central Banks, there’s been relatively little chatter about the Fed’s Quantitative Easing (QE2) program and how it relates to the housing market.  Maybe the housing industry doesn’t know, doesn’t care, or plain just doesn’t expect much anymore. Even earnest commentary like this...
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