What Can Cause the Next Mortgage Crisis in the US? by Wolf Richter • Sep 16, 2018 • 96 Comments The soothingly low mortgage delinquency rate is a deceptive indicator: the New York Fed weighs in.
What Will These Mortgage Rates Do to Homeowners Trying to Refinance, Homebuyers, and Mortgage Lenders? by Wolf Richter • Sep 12, 2018 • 50 Comments Refinancing activity plunges to the lowest level since 2000.
Anatomy of a Housing-Bubble Inflection Point in the Bay Area’s Sonoma County by Wolf Richter • Sep 11, 2018 • 70 Comments In 9 charts. Red indicates the moves since the inflection point in June.
Update on Rental Bubbles & Crashes in US Cities by Wolf Richter • Aug 31, 2018 • 34 Comments Rents plunge in Chicago & Honolulu, spiral down in New York, Washington DC, & others, but surge in many markets.
Supply of Homes Surges 20% to 90% in Many Markets Just as Pending Home Sales Drop by Wolf Richter • Aug 29, 2018 • 116 Comments This is not good.
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America by Wolf Richter • Aug 28, 2018 • 62 Comments New York condo prices fell again. Historic spikes slow in Seattle and other metros.
How Losing-Money-in-Real-Estate Becomes Cool by John McNellis • Aug 24, 2018 • 23 Comments Compass, a real-estate-brokerage unicorn with $800 million in venture funding and a $2.2 billion “valuation,” disrupts – itself?
Here Comes the 2nd Wave of Big Money in the “Buy-to-Rent” Scheme by Wolf Richter • Aug 23, 2018 • 127 Comments A different set of private-equity firms, at the peak of the market, as brokers constantly blame low inventories of single-family houses for sky-high prices.
Anatomy of the Housing-Market Inflection Point in the Bay Area’s Sonoma County: Insider View by Wolf Richter • Aug 13, 2018 • 87 Comments The inflection point was in June. This is how inflection points show up at the subcutaneous level in all housing markets.
Could California Flame Out? by John McNellis • Aug 5, 2018 • 112 Comments High housing costs & taxes lead to this: “Once we decided we had to get our employees out of California, we went about our search systematically.”
