A report from Yahoo Finance. "To say home refinancing activity is a sliver of what it was two years ago is no exaggeration. 'Lenders are hurting. We still see layoffs on a monthly basis,' Jason Sharon, owner and broker at…
A weekend topic starting with Real Clear Markets. "Arthur Burns, Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1970 to 1978, publicly regretted afterward that he had lacked the spine to do what was necessary to get the Great Inflation of the…
A weekend topic starting with Fortune. "A new era of higher borrowing costs and more cautious lenders—coupled with slowing growth and recession fears—has frozen once-red hot segments of the U.S. economy. Logan Allin, founder of Fin Capital, a fintech-focused VC…
A report from Go Banking Rates. "In 2021, inflation pushed the housing market to record highs — but it wasn’t a bubble. 'It’s not like 2008, because the growth we have seen in the past few years wasn’t based on…
A report from CNBC. "Wells Fargo is stepping back from the multitrillion-dollar market for U.S. mortgages. As part of its retrenchment, Wells Fargo is also shuttering its correspondent business that buys loans made by third-party lenders and 'significantly' shrinking its…
What are your housing bubble predictions for the new year? Six months ago: "I think this will have to do primarily with interest rates – and i think that the central banks will chicken out and live with inflation (in…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Markets like Phoenix and Las Vegas, which saw a boom in sales during the pandemic, are now experiencing a glut of homes for sale, said Jeff Tucker, senior economist at Zillow. 'There…
A report from the Dallas Morning News. "'There’s no doubt about it, the market is slowing down from a very high peak,' said Texas A&M economist Jim Gaines. Homebuilders also saw a dramatic decline in sales that led them to…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "In June 2021, when the cryptocurrency markets were soaring, the developers of the Arte condominium in Miami’s Surfside neighborhood announced that a buyer had purchased a penthouse there for $22.5 million in…
A report from the Herald Tribune in Florida. "'Sellers are listening more to their agents and being more realistic with asking prices,' noted Ellen O’Day, the managing broker for two of our Coldwell Banker Realty offices in Sarasota." The Los…