Here’s a little montage of commercials from the National Association of REALTORs® over the last few years. My favorite is the one with the family literally sitting on a fence. The last one isn’t technically a “flashback” since it’s currently airing, but the message that anyone who doesn’t buy a house must hate America and…
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The Curious “Logic” of Home Salesmen
J. Lennox Scott in March (original post deleted, screenshot here): …if interest rates increase by one-half point from the current rate, as has been predicted by many economists, a buyer with a loan amount of $200,000 will lose approximately $11,000 in purchasing power. … The interest rate differential can be applied to all buyers in…
Poll: Do most people you know believe that it is always a good time to buy a home no matter what?
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Bloomberg Runs Flat-Out False Case-Shiller Headline
Bloomberg Headline: Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Rise for Fourth Month Hey, cool! The housing downturn must be over if home prices rose in all twenty of the cities tracked by Case-Shiller, right? Right? …way down in the 11th paragraph of the article: Compared with the prior month, nine of the 20 areas covered…
KING 5’s Up Front: Local Housing Downturn Not Over Yet
Sunday’s Up Front on KING 5 focused on the local real estate market, and provided a relatively balanced picture. Host Allen Schauffler presented an overall picture of the current market, a look at a couple that got swept up in the bubble mania, a look at the next wave of adjustable rate resets, a warning…