After a rough end to the week for consumer and investor confidence levels, American morale appears to be on the rise this week as a Prudential Real Estate survey indicates that 68 percent of potential homebuyers and home-sellers expect that their property values will recover in the next year or two. This time last year, only 47 percent expected that Read full article »
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Americans Feeling Better About the Housing Market
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Overall, Residential Property Values Remain Steady from 2009 to 2010
It seems like every month a new report indicates that residential property values are on the rise or on the decline. However, when you view the past year as a whole, all those rises and dips level out to leave property values “relatively unchanged from 2009 levels,” new data from Integrated Asset Services and CoreLogic indicate. Overall, national home prices Read full article »
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CoreLogic Estimates Shadow Market Volume at 2.1 Million
If you have been waiting for the “foreclosure tsunami” to hit the real estate market, you might not have to wait much longer. According to real estate analytics firm CoreLogic, another wave of distressed residential properties is due to “flood an already saturated residential real estate market in the coming months”. Based on a recent report, the firm believes that Read full article »
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Home Sale Values: Are the Numbers Actually Headed Up?
You’ve probably heard a lot of positive press lately about home values. In many areas of the country, including California, which is often considered a bellwether state for the rest of the nation, median home sale prices have been slowly creeping upward. This signifies to many analysts – armchair and otherwise – that the housing markets in these areas are Read full article »
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Say Goodbye To Zillow?
First American Core Logic, a real estate data company, claims that Zillow, Fiserv, Real Data and four other online appraisal- and estimate providers have and continue “to willfully, wantonly and deliberately engage in acts of infringement” on their 1994-patented automated valuation model (AVM) that provides quick property appraisals and valuations for clients. How often do you use these services, and which, Read full article »
category: Editorial
The Politics of Real Estate
Few industries are as profoundly impacted by the political machinations in Washington as the real estate industry. Whether it's old legislation like Jimmy Carter's Community Reinvestment Act or Barack Obama's massive mortgage bailouts, the U.S. political machine has a huge impact (usually bad) on the business of real estate.
Ideally, we could ignore politics. But here at the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter, we insist on seeing the world with clarity - including the reality of Washington's aggressive involvement in every facet of our business, from mortgage lending to real estate sales license; from loan modification regulations to appraisal requirements... every piece of our business is profoundly impacted by politics. So rather than stick our heads in the sand and ignore reality, readers of the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter choose to be informed and prepared.
Mortgage Industry News
Few things change more rapidly than the mortgage market, and with the increasing dominance of GSE's Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the mortgage business, it's more important than ever to keep up. Here are a few recent mortgage news updates:
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Mortgage News
- HAMP Success Tally Slowly Growing
- Western States Working Through Foreclosure Backlog Quicker than Eastern
- Biggest Down Payments in the Country Found in New Jersey
- President Bypasses Congress, Appoints Director of the Consumer Protection Bureau
- Federal Reserve Recommends Expanding GSEs to Turn Housing Market Around
- Mortgage Rates Likely to Remain Low for a While Longer
- Top Former FDIC, Wells Fargo Execs Say Fannie and Freddie Must Go
- FHA Continues to Extend Anti-Flipping Waiver
- More Homeowners Using Delaying Tactics to Slow Down Foreclosures
- Now that It’s Passed: The True Cost of the Payroll Tax Cut
About Bryan Ellis
Bryan Ellis is an Atlanta-based real estate analyst and publisher of the widely read newsletter "The Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter". With over 200,000 subscribers - including real estate investors, agents, brokers, appraisers and other real estate professionals - the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter is among America's largest sources of unbiased coverage of politics and public policy for the real estate industry.
Bryan Ellis serves as editor in chief for the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter and is assisted by an extraordinary staff of writers, researchers and editors who are each real estate experts in their own right and who assure that the news we report is well researched, factual, and highly relevant to today's real estate industry.
Bryan is very happily married and has two wonderful daughters. He makes his home in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. You can contact the team at the Bryan Ellis Real Estate Letter here.