The Housing Bubble Blog

It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The Maricopa County treasurer began sending out tax bills last week and will continue through the end of the month. Much of the increase is due to the state equalization tax, which is back after a three-year hiatus. The tax, which helps fund...

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by ahansen Unlike Ben, who apparently clears his desk every Friday, I have been known to go for several years without baring the curly maple of my own. When I do, it’s generally taken me at least a month of searching for lost notes and receipts to get the initial inspiration to clean it off, then...

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A reader wrote in with a situation many are now facing. "I have been reading the blog for a while and occasionally send a little support. In January 2008, I moved to Phoenix to start as a healthcare researcher. I intend to stay in Phoenix for a long time. I actually like it here. I have been...

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¢ by the Mysterious Flying Miser ¢ I found this on Global Property Guides: “For much of 2008, Russia’s housing market seemed insulated from the global financial meltdown. However, the situation turned nasty during the last quarter of 2008. Property prices fell, transactions and sales plummeted,...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "It's the first stretch of increased buying since 2005, a frenzied time with fast-rising prices and go-go lending. Those unusual conditions - repeated in communities across the country - started a domino effect of economic woe, from foreclosures to...

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-by the Mysterious Flying Miser OK guys, a while back I let you have an interview from a real-estate investor in California named Bruce Norris. You all weren’t exactly very nice to the guy, so I decided to give you another chance because I know you can do it. I interviewed an old-time HBB reader...

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by ahansen Last weekend I attended my 40-year high school class reunion in Palos Verdes, CA. As someone who would prefer sticking hot needles into my eyes over making cocktail chitchat, the whole thing was doubly horrifying for me. Not only had forty years disappeared like...that!, here I was...

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The Pensacola News Journal. "The recession has dealt a whopping blow to Florida. Unemployment is soaring. The state is second to California in the number of foreclosures. Earlier this month came the most jaw-dropping announcement of all: The state that had made population growth the linchpin of its...

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-by the Mysterious Flying Miser From Architecture Design: “Low-income people are being marginalized by the federal government’s ‘monolithic housing estates’ and badly planned cities, says Mission Australia. The federal government is ‘incapable’ of providing affordable housing and coherent city...