Money & Real Estate
A Hostile Lending Environment
The current credit crunch will last quite awhile, if past periods of similar conditions are any guide. One reason is that the U.S. banking system has...
Greed Has Run Amok In Mortgage Industry
Financial firms are strongly resisting any attempts to impose greater regulation on their activities, according to various media accounts. By taking this...
A Price Correction Is Unavoidable
Although loan defaults on commercial properties remain at low levels, the credit crunch in the real estate markets will still have some negative impact...
Ducking the Housing Credit Mess
Many pessimists believe the current credit freeze in home markets will spread to commercial property, setting the stage for a full recession in 2008....
The Great Real Estate Credit Freeze of 2007
By late October 2007, U.S. credit markets for most real estate lending became almost frozen because of uncertainty among both lenders and borrowers about...
Guarding Against a Development Boom
In the past 10 years, the American real estate market has been stimulated by massive inflows of financial capital from around the globe. That influx of...
A More Precarious Investment Climate
The near collapse of two residential subprime lenders rescued by loans from owner Bear Stearns, plus bankruptcies of other subprime lenders, has apparently...
The Danger of Large U.S. Trade Deficits
For the past decade, U.S. real estate markets have been dominated by a flood of financial capital from foreign and domestic sources. ...
Fallout From Stock Market's Swoon
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 416 points, or 3.3%, on Feb. 27. It was one of the largest one-day price drops since the 30% decline on Black Monday in October 1987...
Global Forces Fuel Real Estate Investment
For the past few years, there has been a record flow of capital into domestic and international real estate markets. ...
