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The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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56407You are correct. No US university of any size has more than 10% foreign undergraMoominoid6/20/2006
56406One of the main reasons for buying a house/apartment in England was because the Moominoid6/19/2006
56405DD, There's no way that 75% of the Stanford's graduating class is foreiLive2Sail6/19/2006
56404The one thing I recall about SA are the huge drain gutters that lined roads on tDrygulch Dan6/19/2006
56403What I'm talking about is that if your "marginal utility" per dollMoominoid6/19/2006
56402Beazer Teaser globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Mish Thanks Ramsey I needed amishedlo6/19/2006
56401I am in contract on 17 homes in San Antonio. I am having them inspected and am John Vosilla6/19/2006
56400I too would think it gets worse. But a ton of people do this for a living and nJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56399<i>what's been happening to well capitalized investors these days who Marc Hyman6/19/2006
56398Phoenix population 3.8MM, 50,000 homes for sale LA,CA population 10.2MM, 40,000 mishedlo6/19/2006
56397The FFF market is saying a 100% chance of 5.25 next week and a high % (don'tLive2Sail6/19/2006
56396I don't think there are any scholarships for foreign "minorities" microhoogle!6/19/2006
56395'Because of California's still-active housing market, homeowners there cJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56394'During the mania most homies treated realtors like lepers and it's bitiJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56393'..talk about the midwest "heartland" market taking off as the coaJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56392beazer.com what a bargain!!!! or is it? I bet you most licensed real estate aRamsey Su6/19/2006
56391I just realized those are current temps ... I thought those were the highs for tCalculatedRisk6/19/2006
56390Life in Hell, LOL...... Think I'll hook up a clothesline outdoors, might aspatron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56389Shoot ... check out the temperatures on the upper right!CalculatedRisk6/19/2006
56388LOL <I>To Christy and Friends, If you think we are in a "normal"Lizzie Tudor6/19/2006
56387In a town without a name, in a heavy downpour Thought he passed his own shadow, Les H6/19/2006
56386They pulled that article. search.denverpost.com Mishmishedlo6/19/2006
56385At 40 or 50K a year, they'll need those scholarships or a CA fixer upper witDrygulch Dan6/19/2006
56384You wouldn't believe the scholarships available for foreign "minoritiesJim McMannis6/19/2006
56383Hilarious Kunstler today (from the Clusterf*ck Nation chronicles)....apparently patron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56382I just went to my nieces graduation exercises at Stanford yesterday. Of the 180Drygulch Dan6/19/2006
56381This article's a hoot, talking about all the bad things the bubble implosionpatron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56380In SW Fl, KBH let all of their investor clients bail out with a minor exit fee. gladman6/19/2006
56379actually going to call TOL today, seems they have a few inventory houses availabTheStockFairy6/19/2006
56378Re: <i>The June decline in builder confidence again was broad-based and apDan36/19/2006
56377Thanks Mishmishedlo6/19/2006
56376Home Builders Expect Weaker Sales Of New, Single-Family Houses in June By BENTOChanceIs6/19/2006
56375why don't you call KBH or TOL and maybe they will take your current unit offLizzie Tudor6/19/2006
56374Foreclosures may jump as ARMs reset By J.W. ELPHINSTONE, AP Business Writer 1 hJim McMannis6/19/2006
56373According to Jim Rogers it's a lot to do with supply and demand. He says tooJim McMannis6/19/2006
56372RE:"I could have predicted that insurance costs in Florida would outstrip iJim McMannis6/19/2006
56371Last week I couldn't borrow any shares of RYL and that turned out to be a goGraceZ6/19/2006
56370Interesting. I often am amazed at the older homes from the 20's...how massivBroken_Clock6/19/2006
56369Just tried to short JOE (my covered put was assigned last week). Schwab spat baChanceIs6/19/2006
56368OT University cost inflation I think you can explain escalating college costs pDoughboy6/19/2006
56367<i>I sort of understand medical costs rising - stupid government programs GraceZ6/19/2006
56366Will the big home downsize? realtytimes.comLes H6/19/2006
56365Currently there's no buyers out in the market for my townhome and I've hTheStockFairy6/19/2006
56364The index is still well above the '91 levels - but '91 seemed like a DepCalculatedRisk6/19/2006
56363Foreclosures May Jump As ARMs Reset Yahoo Finance News & AP ^ | June 19, 200Proud_Infidel6/19/2006
56362Also, so many colleges and uni's these days think that they need to be #1 toLive2Sail6/19/2006
56361There is the belief that education not only confers social distinction and mobilTommaso6/19/2006
56360Seems like the last downturn took 2 yrs from top to bottom on that chart(early 1John Vosilla6/19/2006
56359Some sad stories caused by lies from lenders biz.yahoo.comdamainman6/19/2006
56358thanks - wow. Well, it doesn't seem like things are that bad yet but maybe Lizzie Tudor6/19/2006
56357Foreclosures May Jump As ARMs Reset Monday June 19, 1:12 pm ET By J.W. ElphinstCalculatedRisk6/19/2006
56356Here is a chart of the NAHB index: <img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/CalculatedRisk6/19/2006
56355beats me- all I can see is that traffic keeps falling- folks not even out lookindamainman6/19/2006
56354Can you figure out why education costs have soared at colleges? I sort of undersmishedlo6/19/2006
56353Yep....and the 2-10 remains inverted which bodes ill for everything else. Boughpatron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56352am I reading that right.... seems like we are down to 1991 levels on most of thoLizzie Tudor6/19/2006
56351I can not find a link on google or the post for that - Have one? Heartbreak alomishedlo6/19/2006
56350Bigs just pointed out the big move up in 10 yr treasury rates perhaps the biggesJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56349I rec that post. Is it time to start the "Great bankruptcy wave" threaBroken_Clock6/19/2006
56348Yep....so far Mikey doens't seem to like it much, it's as though someonepatron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56347In Florida and probably most other states it depends on recording of the mortgagJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56346Guess we soon find out if this dismal news was already priced in or another leg John Vosilla6/19/2006
56345Don't know about other states but in Hawaii the lease is not necessarily voiBroken_Clock6/19/2006
56344<i>But the trick in life is to not compound one's losses and I've GraceZ6/19/2006
56343At some point, yeah....but we're barely entering the recognition wave. Wake patron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56342Such talk of a soft landing for RE when the plane is still up in the air! Still,damainman6/19/2006
56341EXCELLENT! Back to 1994 levels on sales, and 1990 levels on traffic? HO HO HO!patron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56340Yeah, but I bet you there is a pretty darn high positive correlation between incSouthFloridaGuy6/19/2006
56339NAHB-WF Housing Market Index for june nahb.orgdamainman6/19/2006
56338Made the assessment in 2002, thinking the housing market would top out 2 years aSouthFloridaGuy6/19/2006
56337I had a landlord at my studio that we rented from for below market rates for aboGraceZ6/19/2006
56336I could have predicted that insurance costs in Florida would outstrip inflation GraceZ6/19/2006
56335Well I'm fond of saying that I continue to hold my personal residence for peGraceZ6/19/2006
56334Yes, I saw I was wrong about that.Tommaso6/19/2006
56333Not necessarily. I have rental units myself and rents have been rising at a paceGraceZ6/19/2006
56332'Because my landlord is a rich old man and not over-extended, I am hoping heJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56331My buddy in FL got kicked out of his beautiful house for that very reason. His wSouthFloridaGuy6/19/2006
56330I would think due in part to this housing mania landlord IQ and old fashioned haJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56329RE:"When you buy a house you pay a premium to lock in a percentage of the cJim McMannis6/19/2006
56328Les that is the biggest story of all. How most miss the conundrum of high inflaJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56327I <b>recently</b> rented a house in Great Neck, NY. Appraised value SouthFloridaGuy6/19/2006
56326A few years ago my daughter had to add three more hours of credit in her last seTommaso6/19/2006
56325<i>Around here I would doubt that the mortgage payments are going to be 85GraceZ6/19/2006
56324Sounded to me as if he had a rent-contolled unit.Tommaso6/19/2006
56323Bloomberg did a piece in early 2005 that showed the old CPI would be around 10.5Les H6/19/2006
56322What people buy when they buy a house is a measure of control (no one has compleGraceZ6/19/2006
56321This is the basic idea of subjective valuation vs the exchange value in the markMoominoid6/19/2006
56320Housing services have a value. It's not arbitrary, I can go out into the marGraceZ6/19/2006
56319Around here I would doubt that the mortgage payments are going to be 85% of yourMoominoid6/19/2006
56318Were you able to predict back when you first rented that place that your rent woGraceZ6/19/2006
56317Re: <i>Why? If consumers started getting into credit problems, the Fed couDan36/19/2006
56316the socialization of risk. Government can be counted on bail out credit problemsChanceIs6/19/2006
56315Denver's market is one of the Canaries in the Coal Mine. Denver was about 1Dan36/19/2006
56314'Inflation, though nowhere near double digits, is clearly rising. The governJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56313Perhaps many today addicted to these credit and housing bubbles in FL and some oJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56312'Maybe the FL employment level is muted because of so many illegals off the John Vosilla6/19/2006
56311"The longest time period you can predict is for the life of your lease.&quoJohn Vosilla6/19/2006
56310How low will it go? This article graced the front page of the local (Phoenix) fipatron_anejo_por_favor6/19/2006
56309denver & the west Heartbreak along Mockingbird Lane Foreclosing on the AmDoughboy6/19/2006
56308<i>Even skyrocketing insurance rates down here in Florida are a minor issumishedlo6/19/2006
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