Here’s a pair of somewhat conflicting stories about the push to extend and expand the inefficient, expensive, economically stupid $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit. From the real estate news source Inman News: Final push for tax credit Real estate industry trade groups are mounting a final push for an extension of the first-time homebuyer tax…
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KUOW Seeking Stories from Commercial Real Estate Investors
I received the following request from a KUOW reporter that I thought was worth forwarding on to the general reading audience: Another of our reporters is working on a story on commercial real estate investment. I recognize that your blog follows residential real estate more closely, but I know many of the people reading it…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-17
"Americans are still delusional about the long-term trajectory for house prices" http://is.gd/4fMeE # Peter Schiff on the Dori Monson show right now on 97.3FM # "Washington has lost almost 1 out of every 20 jobs since the state's economy began slumping early last year." http://is.gd/4joCS # Seattle P-I takes on the new NWMLS rules that…
Lawrence Yun: “Home values have overshot downward”
In case there is any doubt about whether NAR chief “economist” Lawrence Yun is just as much of a shameless price-boosting shill as his predecessor David Lereah, I present some excerpts from a post he made on Friday regarding the inefficient, expensive, and economically stupid homebuyer tax credit: Unleashing Pent-Up Housing Demand and Sustainable Economic…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2009-10-10
via Mish:"We are at greater risk of a total meltdown due to a deflationary collapse than we were in 2007." http://is.gd/3XFvc # Wow, nearly 1 in 5 downtown Seattle offices are sitting empty right now, and vacancy "hasn't peaked." http://is.gd/3YwWH # Time to eliminate gov. subsidies that have turned homeownership into "an economic ball and…