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The real estate market is downright scary. Houses across the country are selling for a fraction of what they were just a few months ago. But smart investors are using a unique strategy to buy without selling.
By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com
Baltimore – (TFN): It is a great time to be buying a house, but an [...]
Tags: credit crisis, financial news, mortgage, mortgage issues, Real Estate, real estate crash, real estate market, realtor, rent instead of sell, renting a house, selling a house
Consumers are scared to enter the real estate market. Are they making a big mistake? Is it possible for prices to go even lower? You may be surprised.
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore – (TFN): I had an interesting call from my father-in-law last night. It was a bit different than the normal conversation topics we cover [...]
"If you think we’ll have a thriving real estate market again (and it’s only a matter of time), mortgage companies and home builders would be good investments." — Andrew Gordon
Blogger’s note: The real estate crash isn’t over yet. Mortgage companies and home builders may still have further to fall. But according to Andrew [...]
"Sometimes, however, there is a delayed reaction in gold, which happens more often than efficient market theorists would like to admit. Gold’s fundamentals are still bullish." — Ed Bugos
by Ed Bugos
Baltimore and Vancouver, British Columbia — (TFN): Last week we saw a bounce in the stock market that threatened to send gold prices [...]
“Could we be on the verge of a turnaround? The weekend press was full of the news that some mortgage lenders are actually starting to trim rates. A few commentators even suggested that it was nearly time to go bargain hunting.” — John Stepek
Blogger’s note: The real estate [...]
“As a service to Money Morning readers who are unfortunate enough to have been holding Fannie or Freddie paper, or to the venturesome few who wonder whether there is any among the debris, I thought I’d peer through the fog of uncertainty and try to figure out what the different classes of Fannie and Freddie [...]
“There is an interesting trend occurring at the bank - one that bodes well for banks and the economy as a whole.” — Karim Rahemtulla
by Karin Rahemtulla
Baltimore – (TFN): It’s one of the most important companies in America today…
But like any company, it’s got its share of pros and [...]
“We thought we’d take a bit of a different approach, and use some of the social indicators that we’ve come across to develop a ‘Top 10 List’ of reasons the U.S. economy may have achieved a new market bottom - though perhaps it’s not yet the ultimate market bottom.” — Keith [...]
“The current mess did not result from a failure of the free market, but from too much government interference. The real estate bubble, and the shaky securitized products it spawned, resulted from the Fed artificially setting interest rates too low.” — Peter Schiff
by Peter Schiff, Dollar Bear
Baltimore – (TFN): Now [...]
Tags: bear, bear stearns, bernanke, dollar, Fed, inflation, interest rates, jp morgan, mortgage, speculation, treasury
"Even more troubling than the mortgage crisis is the havoc it is creating in the bond market. Borrowers and lenders that depend on the usually highly liquid and safe municipal bond market are suffering from a market that seemingly dried up overnight. " – Andrew Snyder
By Andrew Snyder
Baltimore (TFN) — Every major economic downturn in this nation's [...]