All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Residential Market Trends

Data from the source article shows the condominium market on a sharp decline this year.  As a former condominium owner (from 2002 through 2005) I offer several solid explanations for me and others abandoning condominiums. First came problems financing my condo, resulting in an exhorbitant...

National statistics are important but remember that all real estate is local. Any decision regarding pricing must be preceded by detailed market research.

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...

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...

Negotiations and days on market are affected by the price range.

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?

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,...

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...

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...

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...