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  • Some big cities at risk of another housing bubble: Shiller

    07/05/2013 5:02:14 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 3 replies
    Reuters ^ | Thu Jun 27, 2013 6:35pm EDT | Tim Reid
    Dramatic home price gains in some of America’s largest cities point to a potentially new housing bubble in those areas, according to Robert Shiller, who helped create a closely watched gauge of U.S. housing prices. Shiller said big price gains in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Phoenix, fueled in part by a large influx of outside investor money, are a possible sign of trouble ahead. “There is a risk of bubbles in these cities,” Shiller, a co-founder of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, told Reuters on Wednesday. “House prices increases have been dramatic. It looks like the...
  • Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

    04/03/2013 6:32:05 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 80 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 04/03/2013 | By Zachary A. Goldfarb,
    <p>The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.</p>