They Thought They Could Never Go Wrong
A report from Houston Agent Magazine in Texas. "Y’all, I hate to lick all the red off your candy, but the days of a super-hot real estate market are behind us (at least for now). While on the surface, that…
Everyone Wants To Pay Tomorrow’s Price
A report from the Orange County Register. "California's latest homebuying debacle is a pumped-up storyline we've seen before — even if each housing bubble has its own shape and size. The median price of an existing, single-family home in California…
How Many Times Have We All Heard The Word Unsustainable?
A report from Mansion Global. "Austin, Texas has cooled faster than any other major U.S. metro over the past year, according to the report. The city’s median price plummeted 13% year over year in February. Austin leads a trend where…
The Gargantuan Phalanx Of Flimflammers And Rug-Pullers
A weekend topic starting with Time. "The idea that banking mistakes could plunge the U.S. economy into a recession is familiar—the Great Recession that began in 2007 was caused when banks made risky home loans and then sold to lenders…
A Lot Of It Is Just Evidence Of Failed Speculative Activity
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "After reaching a peak of $670,000 in May 2022, median home prices in Northwest Austin have been consistently declining since August, according to the Austin Board of Realtors. February marks the seventh…
We Were Watching It Go Up And Up And Up And Up And Up And Up… And Then It Just Started Coming Down
A report from USA Today. "'Prices would not have fallen if the Federal Reserve did not raise interest rates so aggressively,' says National Association of Realtors’ Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. 'One casualty of the Fed’s policy, aside from the regional…
For 30 Years The Fed Has Merrily Fed Us Easy Money Policies, Then Expressed Shock – Shock! – That Those Policies Led To Disaster-After-Disaster
A report from the Seattle Times in Washington. "The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank have reverberated across Seattle’s housing market. Even as regulators rush to stabilize banks, some buyers may wonder if 'these are just sort of…
The Most Reckless Monetary And Fiscal Experiment In History
A report from NBC News. "Silicon Valley Bank is shutting down. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation said Friday that it was taking over and closing the distressed bank to protect deposits, naming the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…
A Consistent Set Of Politics Based On The Ideology Of Home Ownership, Encouraging Us All To Buy As Strategic, Calculating Mini-Capitalists
A weekend topic starting with WBUR in Massachusetts. "The great unwinding of Silicon Valley Bank’s ambitions has a special sting in Boston, where the failed bank’s parent had vacuumed up two local institutions in recent years, part of its bid…
The Price Keeps Rising As Everyone Rushes To Grab A Piece Of The Pie, Until … Poof! It’s All Gone
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Lee Roberts, 74, the retired CEO of Fort Worth-based RadioShack, has put his five-bedroom, 10-bathroom home at 4400 Overton Crest St. up for auction. Roberts and his wife invested $12 million in…