Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis The small upward correction in home prices from multiple tax credit offerings died in July. Worse yet, inventory of homes…
Joseph Pisani CNBC News Associate US foreclosure activity rose in August from the previous month, and banks and lenders took ownership from homeowners at a…
David Galland, Managing Editor The Casey Report Recently, we have had a number of queries about real estate. And no wonder. For starters, real estate…
Jeff Nielson The Street Most market reporters, commentators and politicians continue to rely upon nothing but the same short-term “snapshots” which have caused them to…
Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ProPublica Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of…
Kimberly Miller The Palm Beach Post Lannis Waters/Palm Beach Post WEST PALM BEACH — Thousands of people are lined up this morning outside the Palm Beach…
Courtney Schlisserman Bloomberg Sales of existing houses plunged by a record 27 percent in July as the effects of a government tax credit waned, showing…
NPR For more than 20 years, the mantra in Washington has been “more, not less” when it comes to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the…
Martin Crutsinger Breitbart Nearly half of the 1.3 million homeowners who enrolled in the Obama administration’s flagship mortgage-relief program have fallen out. The program is…
Ellen Brown Seeking Alpha Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the…
Economic Collapse Blog Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have become gigantic financial black holes that the U.S. government endlessly pours massive quantities of money into….
Vicki Needham The Hill Banks will get the biggest benefit from an Obama administration housing program designed to help unemployed homeowners escape foreclosure. Housing experts…
Dan Levy Bloomberg Nan Holmes, a senior escrow officer at a title insurer, says her insider’s view of the local market gave her the confidence three years…
How the federal housing agencies—and some of the biggest bailed-out banks—are helping shady lawyers make millions by pushing families out of their homes. Andy Kroll…