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From Marketwatch: Even a spike in mortgage costs since late spring — interest rates have jumped nearly a full percentage point — doesn’t ...

Mortgage backed bonds have dropped below key support at the 108 price level.  Other parts of the chart add to the bearish interpretation....

- by New Deal democrat There is a commenter who always asks me whether stabilization in housing prices is really a good thing if the median ...

- by New Deal democrat A month ago when housing starts and permits were reported, I wrote: Psst: Is this the beginning of the end of the hou...

; - by New Deal democrat Two months ago I wrote that It's time to admit that house prices have stopped falling . November's housin...

- by New Deal democrat Housing construction is a long leading indicator, indeed along with interest rates probably the most important one....

- by New Deal democrat Last month I discussed house prices with the provocative title It's time to admit that house prices have stopp...

- by New Deal democrat Another component of the Weekly Indicators, besides money supply which I discussed yesterday, is the Mortgage Banke...

- by New Deal democrat Many if not most times you will see me cite year-over-year trends in economic data. This is because prior researc...

- by New Deal democrat Housing Tracker's final report of asking prices in 54 metropolitan areas for August is in, and it shows that...

- by New Deal democrat Suppose my analysis is wrong, and we actually have a "double-dip" recession? How bad is it likely to...

- by New Deal democrat Consider two different scenarios by which house prices could still decline 25% in real, inflation-adjusted terms, fro...

- by New Deal democrat Yesterday provided some perfect examples of the conventional wisdom about the housing market - namely, that recent ...

- by New Deal democrat It's bad enough that the only diarist left who hits the Wreck list there is the Pied Piper of Doom, but now the e...

- by New Deal democrat There is a really interesting article by Scott Sambucci today, Housing: Why are new listing [prices] down so sharpl...

- by New Deal democrat Last week Zillow made headlines with a report stating that Home Value Declines Surpass those of the Great Depression ...

- by New Deal democrat Several commentators, notably Calculated Risk , believe that residential investment will probably increase - finally ...

- by New Deal democrat Way back in 2004 (if not earlier), Ben Jones' Housing Bubble Blog started, dedicated to the proposition that the...