A weekend topic starting with Business Insider. "Investor Bill Gross warned of more pain for bond investors as US fixed-income assets head for an unprecedented three-year slump. 'The government first threw money out of a helicopter and almost all of…
A weekend topic starting with Yahoo Finance. "Homebuyers in some cities have no choice but to buy million-dollar homes as prices near all-time highs. A report from LendingTree found that two California cities have larger shares of million-dollar homes than…
A weekend topic starting with Deseret News in Utah. "These days, just about anywhere along the Wasatch Front you can find workers building houses, pounding nails into wood-framed structures, installing sheet rock or putting finishing touches on homes designed to…
A report from Reuters. "The Federal Reserve has issued a slew of private warnings to lenders with assets of $100 billion to $250 billion as part of increased efforts to tighten supervision, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday citing people familiar…
A report from the American Statesman in Texas. "The receiver for struggling Austin developer StoryBuilt is asking investors for $2.5 million in new funding as the company attempts to avoid a financial meltdown. The request was made during an online…
A weekend topic starting with the Coeur d'Alene Press in Idaho. "Some would say there are three categories of unintended consequences. The unexpected benefit, which is a positive, but unplanned, outcome. The unexpected drawback, in which we create a problem…
A report from the Advocate in Louisiana. "When David LeBoeuf listed his Gentilly house for sale in May, he thought the newly renovated, two-bedroom cottage would move quickly with a price tag of $315,000, or roughly $190 per square foot.…
A report from Community Impact in Texas. "The residential real estate markets in Round Rock, Pflugerville and Hutto are still dropping in median price and increasing in inventory. The local trend for June is similar to pricing and inventory data…
A weekend topic starting with Civil Beat. "When University of Hawaii economists were assembling 'The Hawaii Housing Factbook,' they decided to look beyond a metric often used to show housing costs in the Aloha State – and how those costs…
What are your mid-year housing bubble predictions? Six months ago: "US housing price declines will continue at an accelerating rate, as investment firms who used leverage to purchase real estate near peak mania levels recognize the need to offload inventories…