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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChanceIs who wrote (202910)	5/18/2009 5:51:11 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

John Paulson bets on property recovery with new fund John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made an estimated $3.7bn (£2.4bn) shorting the US housing market ahead of its collapse, is placing a firm bet on a medium-term property recovery with the launch of a new fund. Telegraph -- James Quinn in New York -- 18 May 2009 telegraph.co.uk John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made $3.7bn from betting against the US housing market, is launching a new property fund. Paulson & Co. is in the early stages of raising money for the new fund. In a departure for the firm, which tends to be more focused on running hedge funds, the new venture will be a private equity fund. Documents recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission will allow Paulson & Co. to begin talking to investors about the fund for the first time – with fund-raising expected to begin shortly. Although a cap on the fund-raising has not been decided, it is expected that the initial size of the fund will be a couple of hundred million dollars. Mr Paulson has hired Mike Barr, a former managing director in Lehman Brother’s $25bn-plus real estate private equity practice in New York, to manage the fund. Mr Barr is being assisted by former colleague Jonathon Shumaker in managing the fund, which will be known as the Paulson Real Estate Recovery Fund. The life of the fund is expected to be seven years, with investments to be made in both the residential and the commercial property sectors. By investing at what Paulson appears to believe is the bottom of the market, the fund will hope to reap the eventual upturn in ravaged property prices. As well as investing in existing property, Mr Barr will work with Tom Noon, a former executive with US house builder DR Horton, who will source residential land developments. The new fund will compliment Paulson’s recently established recovery fund, which is focusing on investing in ailing financial institutions, while his main mergers and arbitrage fund continues to grow. A spokesman for Paulson & Co. declined to comment.

To: ChanceIs who wrote (202910)	5/18/2009 6:17:42 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Why are my SKF long (effectively short banks) hurting so badly. I mean for a bank bull, .... whats to like in this picture?... ...Please don't tell me that bulls are taking the gummints interference seriously. Those loans are bad. --- Because there's a big unknown, at least to the general public, as to how much of the bad debt will be transferred off the banks' balance sheets and onto the general public's. Based upon our experience with AIG, 100% is doable. Cocky banksters are basking in their glory. With the completion of this master theft of the US treasury, all those years of being the robbery victim and paying those $8 per hour rent a cops have finally reaped rewards.