5 Key Signs of a Housing Bubble
Jeff Turner / Flickr.com A housing bubble can cause property prices to soar to unrealistic levels, leading to an eventual crash that can have detrimental...
China’s economic recovery is stalling. Here’s what to expect next
A raft of weak Chinese economic data in May has raised hopes of decisive policy intervention. Market watchers are anticipating the next steps from China’s...
DoubleLine’s Gundlach warns stocks are ‘exhibiting signs of a mania’
“ “The stock market, frankly, is exhibiting signs of a mania, where you have a very concentrated part of the market’s that driving the entire...
Realtor.com Reports Weekly Active Inventory Up 10% YoY; New Listings Down 22% YoY
by Calculated Risk on 6/15/2023 02:16:00 PM Realtor.com has monthly and weekly data on the existing home market. Here is their weekly report from economist...
Treasury Secretary Yellen warns of commercial real estate ‘issues’ that could strain banks
““I do think that there will be issues with respect to commercial real estate.”” — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, in an interview Wednesday with CNBC’s...
Office Owners Dump Lesser Buildings for Whatever They Can Get
Listen to article (2 minutes) Some of New York’s best known real-estate developers are unloading their least viable office buildings at deep discounts, cracking open...
A Housing Bust Comes for Thousands of Small-Time Investors: WSJ
They were offered the benefits of owning apartment-building rentals without any of the work, in real-estate investments that have already left some people empty-handed. [ad_2]...
What Happened to “Paying off the National Debt”?
by Calculated Risk on 5/22/2023 10:31:00 AM At the turn of the millenium, the concern was that the US was paying off the debt too...
Rise in Distressed Sales Signals New Chapter for Beleaguered Office Market: WSJ
In a sign that the office market slump is moving into a new phase, property owners are starting to unload troubled office buildings at fire-sale...
Mortgage demand drops as bank failures hit jumbo loan rates
Homes in Centreville, Maryland, US, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage demand from homebuyers has been erratic to...