The Housing Bubble Blog

Mrs. Palmer’s Roses Back in another lifetime, I lived in a small, spare, glass and wood cottage on a private beach on Southern California’s Gold coast. The trophy wife of a mildly psychotic physician, my horticultural yearnings were sublimated into the sparse dirt flower beds that separated our...

The Flathead Beacon reports from Montana. "The economic outlook for Flathead County and Montana closely parallels that of the national economy: A long, slow recovery from a recession deeper and more damaging than anything Americans have grappled with in a generation. That was the future described...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Chris and Candice Basso would like to move up to a larger home this spring. But even a big tax credit won't be enough to lift them into a bigger, better home. The Centreville, Va., couple are trapped in a two-bedroom townhouse that's worth less than...

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The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. "Developer Joel Cantor proclaims it his 'jihad mission' to sell out his Signature Place condominium tower on the St. Petersburg waterfront. His lender, Fifth Third Bank, is putting 35 units up for auction next month at starting prices that are...

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The Mercury News reports from California. "Reeling from the recession's one-two-three-punch of job woes, climbing mortgage payments, and evaporating equity, desperate Silicon Valley homeowners are dipping into a nearby income stream to avoid foreclosure: That bedroom just down the hall. 'Renting...

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The institutional collusion between mortgage lenders like Countrywide and “failed” insurance behemoth, AIG (which if you ask its well-compensated executives, has actually succeeded quite spectacularly--for them,) has never been a closely-guarded secret. After all, the whole housing bubble was one...

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This is a guest post, followed by some articles I've added for commentary. I am a long time blurker who has enjoyed and learned much from HBB. Many thanks to Mr. Ben Jones and his loyal posters. I went so far as to start The North Idaho Real Estate Blog in the Coeur d’Alene Press ( now defunct) in...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Randall Guerra, a veteran of the housing industry, (and) executive director of the Community Housing Council in Fresno, has resigned, saying he lost faith in the Obama administration's loan-modification program. 'Making Home Affordable is not...

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The Journal Gazette reports from Indiana. "When General Motors Co. closed factories nationwide last year, 700 laid-off employees were told a shift existed for them at the Allen County truck assembly plant. But hourly worker Charlie Cook says that while retaining a job these days is good news, his...

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