Houston home sales jump, but there's a big catch
Oct 20, 2009 | via Houston Chronicle
Houston home sales soar Single-family home sales in the Houston area soared 32 percent in September, but don't get too get excited. Comment?
Moratorium Is Over, So Foreclosures Spike Locally
Jul 21, 2009 | via Houston Press
Harris County is seeing the result of failed government efforts to fix the housing crisis by issuing 90-day moratoriums on foreclosures. Comment?
8 hrs ago | via Mortgage News Daily
Latest post Wed, Dec 30 2009 5:55 PM by Bryan Bledsoe. 28 replies. Viewed 2,378 times. Comment?
Texas' Now-Strong Banks Hold Lessons for Rest of U.S.
20 hrs ago | via KPRC-AM Houston
Part of the reason Texas banks have fared better is the superior Texas economy. "We did not have the high run-up of home prices and we did not have the subprime debacle." Texas banking Commissioner Charles Cooper says Texas bankers also learned how to better cope with banking disasters -- when hundreds collapsed in the 1980s. Comment?
Dallas-Fort Worth home prices dip slightly
Tuesday | via Denton Record-Chronicle
Dallas-Fort Worth home prices were down by just a whisker in the latest gauge of the U.S. housing market. Comment?
Crude, Heating Oil, Gasoline Futures Rise as New Yor...
Tuesday | via Bloomberg.com
Heating oil futures gained as rising home prices showed a strengthening economy and as colder weather indicated greater demand for heating fuel. Comment?
Housing developments targeted growing suburbs, downtown
Sunday Dec 27 | via Residential Real Estate
Several downtown condominium towers were built or started during the decade. Austin has long beckoned to job seekers, musicians and students alike, and the past decade has been no exception. Comment?
UK lenders see credit conditions easing further...
2 min ago | via The Cyprus Weekly
British lenders expect to make credit more easily available to households and businesses in the first quarter of 2010, a survey by the Bank of England showed on Thursday. Comment?
UK house prices rose 5.9 pct in 2009, bank says ...
2 min ago | via The Cyprus Weekly
U.K. house prices rose 5.9 percent in 2009, a major mortgage lender said Thursday, but analysts expect the market to slow down next year. Comment?
GMAC receives $3.8 billion more
4 min ago | via PittsburghLIVE.com
The government on Wednesday provided a fresh $3.8 billion cash infusion to stabilize GMAC Financial Services as the financing company struggles with hefty losses in its home mortgage unit. Comment?
Year's top stories filled with tales of turmoil, str...
6 min ago | via Modesto Bee
It been quite a year, 2009. And thank goodness we're about to put it behind us - or at least the tests and turmoil that grabbed headlines for most of the past 12 months. Comment?
1.8 Million California Mortgages Underwater. In 2008...
6 min ago | via Dr. Housing Bubble Blog
In 2008 100,000 Renters were added. 2010 California Housing Market Trends. How Banks Hoodwinked the Public into Believing the Bailouts were to help the Housing Market. Comment?