All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Residential Market Trends

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...

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.

House prices when going up are a function of household income, and mortgage interest. Going down, the descent is limited by household income and the slow pace of the foreclosure process, but exacerbated by any increase in either unemployment or long-term interest rates. The proportion of homeowners,...

Defaulted mortgages that transform into REO will hemorrhage the budget of any lender or servicer who cannot liquidate the parcels with dispatch.  Short sales represent one more tool available to property managers,real estate professionals,and homeowners faced with must sell properties in an all...

My crystal ball is just back from the shop and I can now absoloutely predict a continued "softness" in Rhode Island residential property value trends until the Spring of 2009. Overpriced homes, foreclosures, a gutted technology job market in nearby Massachussetts and a myriad of other factors are working...

Listings are going up. Mortgages are getting a lot harders for buyers and sellers are having a tough time selling their home. This no shock to me as I have seen first hand the effect of this market here in South Florida.

Real Estate prices are not near the bottom yet.  I am being very carefull with expectations of resale values.  The more negative press the single family homes get the less activity is on the market (except sellers).

In the midst of the chaos caused by the "housing bubble bursting", California's will now be forced to fall back in line with the rest of the states.  Values will continue to depreciate as fewer and fewer borrowers will be able to qualify and ultimately afford to purchase homes. This will likely...

The author provides a scholarly examination of the relationship between expectations and price changes. The author concludes that Fed actions typically do not affect prices directly but they do impact expectations.

Given that the Hong Kong property market, in particular the residential sector, is regarded as one of the key measures, if not the barometer of the economic health of the city region, it is not surprising that “what state the market” inevitably surfaces, be it during a chat over a coffee in Starbucks,...