The continuing fallout from subprime mortgages is starting to weigh on the Stock Market as the consequences of failures continue to ripple out into the financial and home building market sectors. Already sharp sell offs have occurred in the shares of subprime lenders such as
New Century Financial Corp, falling by more than 40% […]

The UK housing market has proved remarkably resilient by notching up a further gain for January of 1.3% (Halifax) , whilst the US Housing market continues to go from bad to worse as the sub prime mortgages time bomb goes off, resulting in a slump that looks set to be the worst since the Great […]

Words from older European sage economists are as welcome to the mainstream financial circles as welcome as leisure suits and hot pants are to the fashion set, as eight track tape sets are to the home music systems, as old Model T Fords are to the classic car vogue (see the Chevy Powerglide).
Yet the wisdom […]

Remember when a 20% down payment was expected when purchasing a house. Sometimes with stellar credit and maybe a special situation, like a first-time home buyer, you could get in with a 10% down payment. I recall a few weeks after my wife and I purchased our first home - both cars broke down.
Saving for your first […]

This report provides a comprehensive insight on all aspects of the Indian real estate sector. It contains a description of the regulatory framework, trends and growth drivers and draws a picture of the macro-environment of the real estate industry in a PEST framework. The report also lists both institutional and private players like DLF, Ansal […]

Virtually every single prediction I made about the subprime mortgage industry over the past year is coming true. In a moment, I’ll tell you what this means to you if you’re buying or selling a home, or even just looking at investments in the housing and mortgage markets.
But first, I’d like to tell you […]

ContiFinancial … EquiCredit … The Money Store … Southern Pacific Funding. Maybe you’ve never heard of them, but they were the subprime mortgage lending stars of the mid-to-late 1990s.
They specialized in making loans to borrowers with bad credit, little or no down payments, and a host of other problems. Once they made loans, they’d sell […]

Pune has been the hotbed of engineering activity for many years now, with the likes of Tata, Bajaj, Bharat Forge and several others based in the city. In recent times though, IT, ITeS and a lot of R&D work has considerably upped the ante of real estate development within the city. The pace of development […]

ContiFinancial … EquiCredit … The Money Store … Southern Pacific Funding. Maybe you’ve never heard of them, but they were the subprime mortgage lending stars of the mid-to-late 1990s.
They specialized in making loans to borrowers with bad credit, little or no down payments, and a host of other problems. Once they made loans, they’d sell […]

The American people appear to be oblivious to the economic hurricane which is expected to touchdown in late 2007. That’s when $1 trillion in ARMs (Adjustable Rate Mortgages) will “reset” triggering a massive increase in foreclosures and plunging the country into a deep recession. If energy costs continue to rise at the same time or […]

The Fed should have tightened earlier to avoid a festering of the housing bubble early on. The Fed is facing a nightmare now: the recession will come and easing will not prevent it.” Nouriel Roubini, “Fed Holds Interest Rates Steady as Slowdown Outweighs Inflation”, Wall Street Journal
I’m really baffled by the e-mails […]

“The crash of the housing bubble will not be pretty. Millions of people stand to lose their homes and life savings. However, it was inevitable. The bubble created a fantasy world that could not continue. At the peak of the bubble, 160,000 people a week were buying a home, most at bubble inflated prices. The […]