In Big Picture - Posted 3 days ago

More straight talk from an old hand in the building sector: Billionaire investor Eli Broad said the U.S. economy is in the worst period'' of his adu...

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In Big Picture - Posted 4 days ago

Housing optimists have systematically misjudged themarket. Some became convinced that the huge runup was justified byfundamentals such as population ...

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In BusinessWeek Online -- Hot Property - Posted 4 days ago

The most popular adjective in real estate listings is (to amplify on my headline) great in Miami; large in Dallas, Orange County, Calif., and San ...

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In Calculated Risk - Posted 4 days ago

From Bloomberg: Manhattan Office Vacancy Rates Climb to Two-Year High Manhattan's office vacancy rate rose to its highest level since 2006 in the seco...

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In Bubble Meter - Posted 4 days ago

Click on the images to see the full-sized graphs of housing prices in Los Angeles, Riverside-San Bernardino, and San Diego, California.Source.Do we ha...

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In Big Picture - Posted 5 days ago

Interesting looking book flagged by the WSJ, called Confessions of a Subprime Lender. The story is told by Richard Bitner, who founded his own subpri...

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In BusinessWeek Online -- Hot Property - Posted 5 days ago

Check out this week's BusinessWeek cover story, The Home Price Abyss: Why the threat of a free fall is growing. I and Mara Der Hovanesian wrote the st...

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In BusinessWeek Online -- Hot Property - Posted 5 days ago

Very belated correction: A year ago I pointed out a New York Times article that warned real estate agents against describing an apartment building as ...

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In Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - Posted 5 days ago

Congratulations (of sorts) go to the UK as British household debt is highest in history.British households are now more indebted than those of any oth...

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In Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - Posted 6 days ago

The proposed solutions to the current economic crisis are getting more and more absurd. With that in mind, I am going to be blunt.Robert J. Shiller's...

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