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Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who also owns a home building company predicted that the housing market would recover in 2011.
In his annual letter to shareholders, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett said he expects the real estate slump in the US to improve by 2011. Buffett also has some choice words for CEOs and...
On a daily basis we all get confronted with a lot of data. In that data resides many false signals and conflicting statistics. Today, I would like to take a step back and look at the housing...
The December 2009 data from the S&P Case Shiller Index shows that housing is pretty much dead in the water. It's not getting worse, but it's also not getting better.
Occupancy and use of real estate indicates the progression of the economic health of an area. When few commerical spaces are occupied, there are few jobs. When more houses are undervalued and...
Let us all get one thing straight, this is an investment-led recovery. Asset prices have rallied strongly from their March 09 lows and corporations have done a phenomenal job of quickly cutting...
I have a discussion with a friend of mine on whether it is better to buy a house when interest rates are low, as they are today, or high. I think the recent real estate collapse provides the answer.
Article | Jan 22, 2010 | Views: 326 | Comments: 0
Tags: real estate, mortgage rates
Do you currently have a mortgage? Are you thinking about buying a new home? In this case, you are probably interested in another mortgage. The question is: can you afford to make both payments,...
Article | Jan 12, 2010 | Views: 71 | Comments: 0
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Data through October 2009, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, a measure of U.S. home prices, show that the annual rate of decline of the 10-City and...
Below is the S&P Case Shiller press release on US home prices. Bottom line: they improved last quarter. Key highlights include:
The annual rate of return has improved from a -14.7% decline in...
The National Association of Realtors announced today that existing home sales for October rose 10.1% to a 6.1 million annual rate from a 5.54 million pace in September. This of course was done with...
One of the most valuable pieces of money management information I‘ve learned is the concept of investment time horizon. The basic idea behind investment time horizon is that if you are investing...
Article | Nov 4, 2009 | Views: 107 | Comments: 0
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Well, at least that’s what a columnist in Time magazine thinks. (It is in the current paper issue, so it’s not available online yet.) I never really thought about it that way, but he is kinda...
Article | Oct 7, 2009 | Views: 93 | Comments: 0
Tags: housing, real estate