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The Deficit Is Falling – Don’t Tell Washington – They’ll Just Spend It 25 Apr 2013 | 07:52 am
Quick Note on the Deficit battle Our friends at the Washington Post have dug around the fringes of the deficit and found some interesting facts from the Treasuries Macroeconomic Advisers. It would app...
Back From The Dead – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Get Back To Business 4 Apr 2013 | 06:37 am
First off, it was a bad idea to privatize the two GSA’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The reason that these two GSA’s exist at all, is because of private industries inability to maintain a level, stable...
Housing Economics? 19 Mar 2013 | 05:03 am
While all seems positive in the residential housing area, some are still cautious, and with good reason. One area of home purchases causing the concern is the investor community. The same folks who bo...
Varying Shades Of Multi Family Expertise 16 Mar 2013 | 04:45 am
That old saying about “sticking to your knitting” seems to have found a sweet spot with multi family developers and managers. Over the past few years while the nation hobbled along under the “Great Re...
Private lending sector asserts itself in Multi-Family financing 14 Mar 2013 | 05:22 am
The only constant is change -Heraclitus (c.535 BC – 475 BC) It wasn’t that long ago that the only multi-family financing source in the sector was Fannie Mae. The private sources of capital had quickly...
Housing’s Fannie / Freddie – Positives 13 Mar 2013 | 05:26 am
GSE Reform – something that may actually make sense. Combining the back offices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will certainly eliminate much duplication and excess cost/overhead. As both organizations ...
Light in Housing’s Tunnel 12 Mar 2013 | 06:04 am
Found an interesting article in cnn.com’s money, indicating that housing prices were returning to normal. This should be exciting news to homeowners who purchased their property after late 2003, but t...
Underwater Homeowners – Low Rates Available 10 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
Underwater Homeowners – Free Money? The article noted below offers an alternative to losing a home through foreclosure as a result of high interest rates on a mortgage secured by an “underwater proper...
If jobs strengthen, economic growth – not far behind 9 Mar 2013 | 05:57 am
Construction jobs have finally surfaced to assist the Department of Labor to report that the unemployment rate in February fell to a 7.7% rate, down from 7.9 in January. Construction accounted for a...
Political Change Affects Far Away Lands 8 Mar 2013 | 07:31 am
While Florida, and most notably Miami, have been benefactors from political unrest in Caribbean and South America nations there comes a time when situations and circumstances change. Possibly such w...
