A weekend topic starting with my comment this week. "We really need to stop playing along with the globalist scum media narratives." From Bloomberg. "On a technical basis, Bitcoin is seen by some analysts as being caught in a no…
A weekend topic starting with a press release. "ATTOM released its third-quarter 2021 U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which shows that 3.59 million mortgages secured by residential property (1 to 4 units) were originated in the third quarter of…
A report from the LA Daily News in California. "Since 2000, U.S. inflation has averaged 2.2%, according to the Consumer Price Index, while rates on 30-year mortgages averaged 5%, according to Freddie Mac. So historically speaking, loans are usually priced…
A weekend topic starting with BBN Times. "The amount of wealth in an economy should be related to the amount of income. For example, wealth in real estate will be linked to the income that people have available to pay…
A report from Verify. "In the summer of 2021, the market started to slow down. However, Zillow Offers according to Mike DelPrete didn’t slow down with the market. 'What happened is they ended up buying a lot of houses and…
A report from WPTV in Florida. "The large selling off of homes owned by Zillow is also happening on the Treasure Coast. As many as 20 homes in St. Lucie County are listed on the Zillow website. Earlier this week,…
A report from KTNV in Nevada. "Las Vegas realtor Daniel Mahabir said Zillow was active in Las Vegas. 'They very quickly, because of their platform, became the number two largest iBuyer out here in Las Vegas,' he said, 'and then…
A report from IFR. "The speed of the turnaround is remarkable given Zillow had raised over US$1bn in the securitisation market in the last three months. 'Everyone is trying to figure out what's going on. I want to know if…
A report from Bloomberg. "Zillow’s iBuying business loses money, so stopping purchases should help its bottom line, analyst Ygal Arounian said in a note. 'This feels like they bought way too many homes and they’re trying to work off that…
A weekend topic starting with the Globe and Mail. "China’s housing woes have been exposed by the liquidity crisis at Evergrande. The collapse of the company is not being ruled out as Beijing cracks down on the excessive leverage that…