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  • Home loan demand falls as interest rates climb

    06/01/2006 6:25:11 AM PDT · by Hydroshock · 7 replies · 403+ views
    Mortgage refinancings decline as interest rates rise MSNBC.COM SPECIAL REPORT Related coverage • Hot or not? • Affordability index • Mortgage calculator • Mortgage rates • Signs of slowing • Economy at risk? City-by-city data • Midwest • Northeast • South • West Related Stories | What's this? • Weekly Home Mortgage Rates • Fifth Third betting big on mortgages Most Popular • Most Viewed • Top Rated • Most E-mailed • Finance firm loses data on 1.3M customers • A bud for the ladies • What location best symbolizes America? • Vote: The place that most symbolizes America? •...
  • Housing Bubble Fact or Fiction? (March 14, 2006)

    05/30/2006 5:51:29 AM PDT · by Hydroshock · 283 replies · 4,258+ views
    LOS ANGELES — Back during the '70s recession I was a real estate expert with Morgan Stanley. We helped banks and REITs work out billions of loser portfolios, reorganize, file bankruptcy, even advised the U.S. Dept of Housing & Urban Development on the collapsed Federal New Towns program. I've worked for developers and mortgage bankers, got degrees in architecture and city planning, taught commercial real estate at Cornell University. But oddly, like the rest of America, most of the time I don't think about the housing bubble that's about to pop. We ignore the coming storm.