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Howard Liggett Posted October 15, 2007
Fractional Ownership Sales Key to Condo Market Revitalization
Analysis of: Report:Condo Market Cools | www.landscapeonline.com
Author: Howard Liggett, President and CEO Distressed Real Estate Consulting Services, Inc.
Florida and Southeast  Alabama condominium sales are flatlined with bulging inventories that are losing value each day they sit idle. Investors are losing money,patience, and hope as this sector struggles for air. Builders are scrapping plans for new developments until the current inventories are...
Posted October 15, 2007
Wall Street Driven Condo Glut's Only Cure is the Customer
Analysis of: Report:Condo Market Cools | www.landscapeonline.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
The condo glut of '07 in the Washington DC metro area exists today not because droves of condo-hungry customers have vanished from the marketplace.  Publicly-traded home builders projected market growth on the DC Metro market as a whole without examining the reality behind consumer demand in individual...
Posted October 11, 2007
Residential Real Estate market differentiation by purchase price in south Forida
Analysis of: real estate news | jupiterandthegardens.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Negotiations and days on market are affected by the price range.
Posted October 10, 2007
Who pays for the floor?
Analysis of: Deal for Apartment Giant Completed | online.wsj.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
In the absence of private funding, will Fannie and Freddie really put a floor under the market? If they do, what will it cost and who will pay?
Posted October 2, 2007
Impact of the subprime market machinations not likely to effect offshore investments
Analysis of: Trapped by the Mortgage Meltdown | money.cnn.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
The supply of resale homes in the USA is the highest it has ever been, demand has all but disappeared, and foreclosure rates are also setting records. 1. The most concrete evidence of the start of a down cycle is when lenders pull capital out of the market. Currently, sub-prime lenders are collapsing,...
Howard Liggett Posted October 2, 2007
Luxury Homes and Home Buyers Stalled by Jumbo Loan Limits
Analysis of: Trapped by the Mortgage Meltdown | money.cnn.com
Author: Howard Liggett, President and CEO Distressed Real Estate Consulting Services, Inc.
More and more would be luxury home purchasers are finding their dream cribs just that---dreams.  Two income families with stellar credit scores have discovered that homes exceeding the jumbo loan limit of $417,000 (The cap on what Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will underwrite.) are often...
Paul Burns Posted October 1, 2007
We need new land development financing techniques
Analysis of: Region’s home equity called OK June 9, 2006 | www.signonsandiego.com
Author: Paul Burns, Owner City Investments
I find the most interesting news in the subject article to be an estimate of real inflation at 9.5 % per year in the first years of this century. Talk about working against some long odds in maintaining wages or keeping up with costs to build. At the same times, the Las Vegas Sun recently noted that...
Posted September 28, 2007
Expectations, Home Prices, and Uncertainty - Oh My!
Analysis of: Understanding Recent Trends in House Prices and Home Ownership | www.kc.frb.org
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Expectations indeed play an important role in home prices.  As the Shiller article clearly shows, there is a gap between real home prices and real building costs that can be explained by the psychological phenomenon of a housing "bubble".  But, certainly part of this discussion should center...
Raymond Natter Posted September 28, 2007
FHA Reform Legislation: Too Much Reform?
Analysis of: Bush, Bernanke Pledge To Stabilize Mortgage Meltdown | www.consumeraffairs.com
Author: Raymond Natter, Partner Barnett Sivon & Natter, P.C.
The House passed comprehensive FHA reform legislation on Sept. 18 and the Senate is likely to act later this year.  The House bill lowers underwriting standards and will enable subprime borrowers to refinance into FHA insured mortgages.  But some could argue that the legislation simply shifts...
Posted September 24, 2007
Second-tier and Third-tier Cities-the Property Market of Greatest Potential in China
Analysis of: Rising house prices show no sign of stopping in China | news.xinhuanet.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
There are extreme regional disparities in existing real estate industry in China: over concentration and abnormal prosperity in frontier cities; underdeveloped but about to touch-off in second-tier cities; insufficient investment and lag-behind development in large amount of third-tier cities.
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