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Our Opinion: No New Tax Credit Coming

September 1, 2010

Reuters report 9/1: “It is not high on anyone’s list that we have heard. We have not heard Congress talking about renewing it.”  – HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan regarding a possible renewal of the homebuyer tax credit.   ORIGINAL POST Rumors are running wild that the administration is considering a new tax credit for homebuyers. We don’t want [...]

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Future Home Prices: Expectations from the Experts

August 31, 2010

MacroMarkets has assembled a very distinguished panel of over 100 economists, investment strategists, and housing market analysts who are surveyed every month regarding their 5-year expectations for future home prices in the U.S. The report is the Home Price Expectations Survey. Their purpose for this undertaking? We are hopeful that this survey, and our panelists, will [...]

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Sense of Urgency?

August 27, 2010

It’s been hard to fault home buyers who haven’t rushed to buy a home, now that there is no longer any Federal Tax Credit. I mean, if you read this blog with any consistency, we all know that home prices are going to continue to tumble, and there is no indication of interest rates climbing [...]

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Everybody Calm Down. Armageddon Is NOT Upon Us!

August 26, 2010

CNBC report 9/2: “Pending sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose unexpectedly in July … suggesting a tax credit-related housing market decline was close to bottoming.”   ORIGINAL POST The new housing numbers have definitely been a major news story over the last 48 hours. The Dow dropped over 100 points on the announcement of July’s existing [...]

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The Existing Home Sales Report Is In. Ugh!

August 25, 2010

We want to begin by saying there were absolutely no surprises in this month’s National Association of Realtors Existing Home Sales Report. Experts were calling for a dramatic fall off in volume and a substantial increase in month’s supply of inventory. Everyone now realizes that the tax credit actually pulled more demand forward than it [...]

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NAR Says It’s Now About Supply and Demand

August 20, 2010

We have been discussing home prices in this blog for over a year. The principle of ‘supply and demand’ has been our rallying cry for the entire duration. Pricing of any item is determined by the number of items for sale in ratio to the number of purchasers looking to buy that item. Here is [...]

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Jumbo Mortgages Becoming More Available

August 19, 2010

While we still see a tightening of mortgage underwriting guidelines for many loan programs, or even an increase in costs associated with the FHA loan program, there has emerged an increased appetite for Jumbo Mortgages in the marketplace. Today, I’d like to discuss the “What?”, “Why?” and “How It Affects You?” of the evolving landscape. [...]

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Where Are Home Prices Headed?

August 18, 2010

We are building a home for real estate information here at the KCM Blog. Our job is to accurately reflect what is taking place in the residential housing market in this country. The entire team takes this job very seriously. With the market evolving so rapidly, it has become a daunting task. We looked at [...]

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Homeownership: It is STILL the American Dream

August 16, 2010

I believe very strongly in the importance of homeownership in this country. A home is much more than just a financial investment. It is a parents’ investment in their children. It is a family’s investment in their community. It is the people’s investment in America. I have written extensively on the fact that real estate [...]

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The Best Real Estate Graph of the Year?

August 13, 2010

Here at the KCM Blog we attempt to bring clarity to a very confusing real estate market. There is news breaking every day and one report seems to contradict another. Today, we are going to take all the news available and put into a single graph. How do we propose to do that? By cheating [...]

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