...and at best undervalued,"" Diggle said. ""That suggests that concerns about another US house price bubble are premature."" However, he remarked, while valuations and affordability don't represent a major barrier...
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Commentary: Summers Time?
...ball in its role overseeing mortgage lenders before the housing bubble burst. Then, Fed chair Alan Greenspan explained he didn't want the Fed to examine mortgage lenders, fearing they would...
Read More »Connecticut Home Sales Inch Up in Q2
...housing affordable while prices rise gradually will avoid the kind of housing bubble we saw seven or eight years ago."" On the condo side, sales increased 2 percent year-over-year in...
Read More »Commentary: Solving the Wrong Problem
...House propaganda, will end ""an era of housing bubble and taxpayer bailouts."" He's right about the bubbles and bailouts, but wrong to blame Fannie and Freddie, who strayed from their...
Read More »Asking Prices Lose Steam in July
For the first time since November 2012, asking home prices decreased month-over-month, slipping 0.3 percent from June to July, ""Trulia"":http://www.trulia.com/ reported. [IMAGE] ""If you were worried about a housing bubble,...
Read More »Mortgage Credit Availability Increases in July
...in March 2012; if it had been tracked during the height of the bubble, it would have registered roughly 800. The report was issued the same day as the Federal...
Read More »Loan Officers Report Rising Demand for Non-Traditional Loans
Adding to concerns of a new housing bubble, lenders reported an increase in demand for ""non-traditional"" and sub-prime mortgage loans and that they've responded to that demand by easing standards,...
Read More »Case-Shiller Detects First Double-Digit Price Gain in 7 Years
In its first-quarter report, the ""CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes"":http://www.corelogic.com/products/case-shiller.aspx?WT.mc_id=prnw_130801_4JBntes.aspx experienced a double-digit national price gain for the first time since the housing bubble that took place seven years ago....
Read More »Case-Shiller Indices Near Five-Year High
...a row--are likely to revive concerns of a growing housing bubble. The Case Shiller indices have gone up for six straight months and 12 times in the last 14 months;...
Read More »U.S. Home Value Appreciation Picks Up Speed in Q2
...percent). While some areas--particularly those where annual appreciation is approaching 30 percent--may seem like they're experiencing a bubble, Zillow senior economist Svenja Gudell explained that kind of market behavior won't...
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