Posts Tagged ‘housing market recovery’

Here Come the Happy Housing Numbers, but Foreclosures Up Year-Over-Year

Written on 26 May, 2014 at 1:43

In other words, the housing market hasn't recovered, and won't recover because it can't recover until the underlying fundamentals change, and that won't happen for a long, long time. It certainly won't happen as long as we refuse to... (Continue reading)

Our Housing Market’s Recovery is Eminent… Get It?

Written on 10 Jan, 2014 at 11:43

Despite some very nasty threats of retaliation from Wall Street and Washington, something like two dozen new cities are now reportedly joining the efforts to potentially head off home foreclosures by using eminent domain to seize mortgages and write them... (Continue reading)

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