While the President today offered up fixes for some of the foreclosure problems resulting from the collapse in subprime mortgage lending, a UCLA professor took a deeper look at housing's role in the nation's economy and recessions. Edward Leamer, a... more...
In case you missed it - this week on InmanTV: Landing good leads - today and tomorrow Lead generation on the Internet is a hot topic these days as more Realtors look to the Web for new clients. Dave Wengel... more...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been careful not to say if he favors a cut in the federal funds rate when the Fed's Open Market Committee meets Sept. 18. It's a committee, and its members are supposed to cast... more...
In case you're wondering how to keep the income rolling in during a slow real estate market ... Tammy Wing Yan Tsui, 31, a Realtor for Macdonald Realty Westmar in Richmond, British Columbia, and her husband were arrested by the... more...
President Bush is expected to announce policy changes and recommendations today designed to help homeowners who were caught in the subprime disaster avoid default on their loans. The President is expected to allow the Federal Housing Administration to guarantee loans... more...
Phoenician Properties Realty, a real estate company that caters to move-up buyers in the Phoenix area, was the fastest-growing residential real estate brokerage company and ranked 286th on the Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies. The company was... more...
If the rooms are emptier at mortgage lending conferences this fall, that may be because those bodies have fled to default services or REO events. A default servicing news publication says this week that its fourth annual conference on the... more...
A team of RE/MAX real estate agents in the Greater Washington, D.C., area have launched a new Web site, HomeZill.com, that offers to refund to buyers up to two-thirds of a traditional 3 percent commission that is received on the... more...
If subprime lending represents only about 13 percent of the $10.4 trillion U.S. mortgage market, and only 5 percent of subprime loans totaling $67 billion in loans are in foreclosure, what's the big deal? At least half those losses will... more...
Francisco Linares, a Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., homeowner, is being jailed 1 day for each foot of illegal fencing he erected around his property. Since the fence is 180 feet long, that equals 6 months in prison. It's not even... more...
A reporter participating in a National Association of Home Builders conference call today asked why the group was hosting a "Credit Crunch" conference call just a month after the group's Mid-Year Forecast call on July 25. She asked what was... more...
Another bad day for stocks today, which some analysts attributed to the one-two punch of the release of the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index and minutes of the Federal Reserve Board Open Market Committee's Aug. 7 meeting.... more...
If your mind is boggled by the complexity of the financial markets that provided mortgage lenders with much of the capital that fueled the housing boom, imagine the headache that's in store for anyone who wants to look at mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and interest rate and credit default swaps through the lens of Marxist theory. more...
Our Connect Duets were one of the most popular sessions we've run at Real Estate Connect - if you missed them before, you can still see all of them over on InmanTV. Craig Newmark and Alex Perriello Lennox Scott and... more...
The InmanWiki's real estate blog directory has been growing at a phenomenal clip; there are already over 600 real estate blogs in the directory with more being added every day. We've just launched a new feature for the directory, which... more...
