Repossessions rise 12 per cent in three months, according to mortgage lenders

Reposession rates continue to rise in the UK. A new report released today revealed that reposessions have risen 12 percent in the past three months, as house prices decline at the same time people are unable to meet their mortgage payments. House prices have been dropping at...

AUSTRALIA: Single workers miss a place on the PM's lifeboat

Karl Fitzgerald and Alice Bleby present the sizzling Renegade Economists radio show on Wednesday afternoons, in Melbourne, Australia. The show features important interviews with the best renegade economists from...

Traders Rue the Worst Week in Years in World Economy - "Set To Last Until 2010"

The chief of Halifax Bank of Scotland Group, HBOS, Andy Hornby, in a broadcasted interview, has today announced that the so-called "credit crunch" is set to last "until at least 2010" with continuing crashing...

Bernanke and Paulson talking bull to support the dollar « Peter J. Cooper’...

" Then Bernanke will have to eat his words and dine on his own credibility and cut interest rates in response. That is perhaps why he has left interest rates at two per cent, and not gone for one per cent straight away. He is keeping some ammunition for the next stage of...

UK: Traders predict house prices will fall by 50% in four years

UK house prices will continue dropping until 2011 and only then will they start slowly rising. Leading UK building companies have already cut staff and fresh starts have been cancelled until present completed...

US economic problems not over, sell the ‘dead cat bounce’ « Peter J. Coo...

This is trader terminology for something that happens in a very bad downturn. Eventually things get so bad that they recover just a little, leading to flood of false optimism about the future, partly from traders...

A Vancouver house is 35% dearer than Toronto's

"British Columbia's affordability conditions deteriorated across every housing segment at the end of 2007, and the province remained the least affordable province in Canada to purchase a home, according to the latest housing report released today by RBC Economics."

There has to be a change in the world before the price of Food and Accommodat...

I feel that there has been a change in the world and unless we grab on to it and follow it through we could all miss it.I see many people complaining of many different injustices.  I see things on the news...

Property shortage to sustain house prices

It seems house prices as going to continue rising. Is everything in this country over priced?

Future of Sarasota Real Estate Market

"Although experts have perceived a bleak future for Florida real estates, within the state lie a region whose real estate market continue to flourish. Sarasota continues to be a haven for vacationers and retirees with its overlooking bay and white beaches. Sarasota is on the...

Greatest surge in UK house prices in 2 years

Smile if you have a house in the UK. UK Rightmove house prices surged 12.4% y/y to a record 222,333 pounds in November, marking its fastest pace of annual increase since Oct 2004. Prices rose 1.5% m/m. As usual, price increases in south England were the.......

US Real Estate entices Koreans

"Koreans more than anywhere else, bought 51 houses in the U.S. in October alone, the Ministry of Finance and Economy said on Tuesday." Full Story

UK house prices increase above expectations

UK house prices continue to rise despite Aug rate hike by the Bank of England (BOE). UK Nationwide House Prices has increased above expectations, coming out at +0.7% m/m (+0.6% expected) and +8.0% y/y (+7.9% expected), even though it was merely half the monthly increase seen...

Sarasota Real Estate: Pot of Gold behind Property Foreclosures

Sarasota Real Estate "When a person purchases a home, a loan must be taken on a regular basis. The lenders, which are banks in general, keep the title to the home as collateral. When the person is ineffectual in paying the dues on time, the ownership of the house is...

Housing market declines in 28 states

"The slowdown in the once-sizzling housing market is spreading, with 28 states and the District of Columbia reporting spring sales declines, led by big drops in former boom areas of Arizona, Florida and...

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