Bits Bucket For June 13, 2010

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Bits Bucket For June 12, 2010

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The Albatross Around Their Necks

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Daniel Taylor is still waiting to hear whether he will qualify for a permanent modification under the Home Affordable Modification Program. A year ago, he lost his job as a salesman with a St. Charles car dealership when General Motors closed down...
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Bits Bucket For June 11, 2010

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Bits Bucket For June 10, 2010

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There Is No Natural Landing Point In California

Bloomberg reports on California. "Sales of houses and condominiums in San Francisco jumped 50 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier and the median price rose 5.4 percent to $685,000, according to a multiple listings analysis by Terradatum Inc. Hyuck Jae Lee and his wife beat a dozen...
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Bits Bucket For June 9, 2010

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What We Saw Was A Bubble

The Missoulian reports from Montana. "Today’s McMansions may become tomorrow’s affordable homes – when multiple generations nestle into different wings. Arthur Nelson, presidential professor and director of the Metropolitan Research Center at the University of Utah, talked about the way households...
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Bits Bucket For June 8, 2010

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The Biggest Question Everybody Is Going To Have

The Daily Journal of Commerce reports from Oregon. "After listing a modest Portland home for $175,000 in a neighborhood with no other homes for sale, Keller Williams principal broker Nick Krautter thought he might have an easy sale. But only days later, a bank-owned sign popped up in front of an...
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Bits Bucket For June 7, 2010

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Values Don't Just Go Up

The Baton Rogue Business Report in Louisiana. "Jim Talbot, by his own estimate, built 80% of the subdivisions in Livingston Parish. Along the way, he has made a fortune estimated, by some, to be worth hundreds of millions. Not surprisingly, Thomason has his detractors. 'You like to see developers...
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Bits Bucket For June 6, 2010

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Debt Chases Us All Like A Rabid Dog

CBS 4 Denver reports from Colorado. "The latest housing data doesn't hold a lot of good news around the country. Only six metro areas recorded price gains. Denver was one of those. But you'll still want to look into the data a little further. 'Problem with that is, it's like an average of putting...
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Bits Bucket For June 5, 2010

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Even Mass Delusions Have Their Moments Of Clarity

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Eric Adams remembers well the surge of foreclosures that occurred when Utah's economy bottomed out in the 1980s. Banks were pushing foreclosed properties onto the market in hopes of recouping their losses, glutting an already depressed market. In...
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Bits Bucket For June 4, 2010

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Bits Bucket For June 3, 2010

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The Feeling Was That You Couldn't Go Wrong

USA Today reports on Florida. "When Mark Weeks was laid off from his $90,000-a-year construction job 2½ years ago,he vowed to hang onto his family's house. But his new job as a safety officer for a Cocoa, Fla., crane rental company barely paid a third of what he used to make, and he wound up unable...
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Bits Bucket For June 2, 2010

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