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Sounds like the time honored tradition of black marketing government goods.

Yossarian's Milo, anyone?

When you are trained by education and temperament to be a parasitic entity with no long term moral horizon, you just do what comes naturally.

National Association of Rodents

Shostakovich visited U.S.; Comptroller traveled to other cities

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19590717&id=OeQeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ySUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4810,3639589

http://www.youtube.com/embed/U7o_3aBIeyU

Weep no more
http://www.youtube.com/embed/0FF4HyB77hQ

Schoenberg was a REALTOR!

JustInTime says

I wanted to buy the dip but didn't have the cash. It was back above $1300 before I made my purchase - three Kangaroos. So far so good though.

If you believe the Elliot Wave Theory, this is the fourth wave. There will be another downside move to $900 - $1,000 on the 5th wave. The time to buy gold will likely be summer 2014.

Of course, we will have to wait and see. Good luck.

E-man says

JustInTime says

I wanted to buy the dip but didn't have the cash. It was back above $1300 before I made my purchase - three Kangaroos. So far so good though.

If you believe the Elliot Wave Theory, this is the fourth wave. There will be another downside move to $900 - $1,000 on the 5th wave. The time to buy gold will likely be summer 2014.

Of course, we will have to wait and see. Good luck.

I try to time my entries / exits somewhat intelligently but for the most part I don't really sweat it.

RentingForHalfTheCost says

unlike many of your houses. Taxes, maintenance, upkeep, etc. etc.

You forgot to mention deadbeat tenants, evictions, vacancy, etc. Let the losers own houses. Winners rent and can move anytime they want to. Yes, renters occasionally have to move on the landlord's terms, but the trade-off is so worth it. Why buy when you can rent and have a much better qualify of life. Let the losers service the mortgage for the next 30 years.

Welcome to Renter Nation.

E-man says

RentingForHalfTheCost says

unlike many of your houses. Taxes, maintenance, upkeep, etc. etc.

You forgot to mention deadbeat tenants, evictions, vacancy, etc. Let the losers own houses. Winners rent and can move anytime they want to. Yes, renters occasionally have to move on the landlord's terms, but the trade-off is so worth it. Why buy when you can rent and have a much better qualify of life. Let the losers service the mortgage for the next 30 years.

Welcome to Renter Nation.

Yes, it also is a step out of the black hole of debt that this country attempts to suck as many people as possible into. Let's see credit cards left right and center, auto loans, student loans, HELOC, loans available at any major store, the opportunities for debt are endless.

Those numbers look about right. I just pulled up the numbers ended in July 2013 comparing to July 2013. Didn't pull up the "to date numbers" like you did. :)

Yep, the rate of decline in inventory is pretty steep. I still believe the rate of housing appreciation will moderate a bit in 2014. :)

I've seen a lot of people go full out for broke via credit binge. Between home loans, business loans, credit cards, store credit cards, autoloans...some people are just really savvy at convincing the world to let them borrow money and they pull it off for a good 15 years while living like kings. Hell, some of them are still living in their homes for free because the bank refuses to foreclose on them.

Again fuel within planes create black smoke when ignited.
Again plaster of paris creates white smoke when building infrastructure collapses.

In case anyone doesn't comprehend the above, this is for you:

http://www.cesarsway.com/training/socialization/How-Daddy-Chose-Junior

bgamall4 says

Again, the planes created black smoke. Demolition and the white smoke took over as the buildings imploded. That is fact

Say hey! This was in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, 1999:

Holy cow/interesting/compelling ...!

And where is it up to date??? Right here ... see the first chart shown in this thread.
Recent Dow day is Tuesday, September 3, 2013 __ Level is 94.8

WOW! It is hideous that this is hidden! Is there any such "Homes, Inflation Adjusted"? Yes indeed, go here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038&c=999083#comment-999083

E-man says

Yep, the rate of decline in inventory is pretty steep. I still believe the rate of housing appreciation will moderate a bit in 2014. :)

"moderate".. don't think so...

kmo722 says

E-man says

Yep, the rate of decline in inventory is pretty steep. I still believe the rate of housing appreciation will moderate a bit in 2014. :)

"moderate".. don't think so...

You haven't been thinking so in the recent years so there's no surprise

Say hey! This was in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, 1999:

Holy cow/interesting/compelling ...!

And where is it up to date??? Right here ... see the first chart shown in this thread.
Recent Dow day is Wednesday, September 4, 2013 __ Level is 95.4

WOW! It is hideous that this is hidden! Is there any such "Homes, Inflation Adjusted"? Yes indeed, go here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038&c=999083#comment-999083

Never forget that HUD spelled backwards is "DUH".

If she registered as a bank, she'd be in the clear.

not the golden turkey report again! dude you should your icon to a turkey.

Goran_K says

Yet prices rise for 4-5 months, and they care calling a recovery. It simply doesn't make any logical sense.

I somehow have to pay for this new BMW dammit! Let's get excited! I need some optimism because if I think about how much money I owe I'm going to cry!(or worse)

TMAC54 says

BoomAndBustCycle says

Goran_K says

Yet prices rise for 4-5 months, and they care calling a recovery.

That's because if they were all doom and gloom like you bloggers.. It would be a self-fulfilling prophecy of no home sales.

BUYERS MAKE VALUE ! Not Gubmint.

Intersting chart, but those debt bars must include QE, the effect of which is not so easy to understand. Bond sold by the government to the government and on the books of the fed.

Don't get me wrong. THere will be an effect but it's not clear at present what it will be.

OR maybe the pars represent just the government debt per person ? National Debt ?

Just keep in mind that past performance is no indicator of future performance. We're in uniquely chaotic financial times right now, and nothing of the sort has happened before, so we can't really predict where it's going short term.

What about rising interest rates? That will make mortgages less affordable.

It won't affect the ultra-high end market though. The rich keep getting even richer.

dunnross says

You will never learn anything.

lol-I'd say he's learned much better than you. His predictions have been correct. Yours have been incorrect.

He's right. You're wrong.

Own it.

Call it Crazy says

History might, but reality doesn't..

http://patrick.net/?p=1229005

You make me laugh. Seriously.

I've posted on here before the actual correlation (or lack thereof) between housing prices and interest rates. It's actually slightly postive indicating that prices move in tandem with interest rates.

You counter that with a survey that reports that people say higher rates make it more difficult for them to buy a house. Holy crap--stop the presses. A majority of people also probably think aliens landed at Roswell. Or that Obama is a Muslim.

It could be that interest rates tend to go up once the economy gets better. If the economy is better, people can spend more on houses. Maybe that helps counteract the higher mortgage payments from the higher interest rates.

It's just an educated guess on my part.

freak80 says

It could be that interest rates tend to go up once the economy gets better. If the economy is better, people can spend more on houses. Maybe that helps counteract the higher mortgage payments from the higher interest rates.

Unfortunately, mortgage rate is going up because Fed is tapering and not because of increased demand for money from improved economy.

hanera says

Unfortunately, mortgage rate is going up because Fed is tapering and not because of increased demand for money from improved economy.

Except that's not really the case. More likely, it is because traders expect that the Fed wouldn't begin tapering until the economy was improving. So they take the Fed's warnings about tapering as an indication that the economy is improving.

yeah, those investors sure made prices go high because we know it wasn't actual owner occupiers who were buying those homes

now they are holding the bag, guess what happens next!!!

Say hey! This was in the Wall Street Journal on March 30, 1999:

Holy cow/interesting/compelling ...!

And where is it up to date??? Right here ... see the first chart shown in this thread.
Recent Dow day is Thursday, September 5, 2013 __ Level is 95.4

WOW! It is hideous that this is hidden! Is there any such "Homes, Inflation Adjusted"? Yes indeed, go here:
http://patrick.net/?p=1219038&c=999083#comment-999083

egads101 says

they sell them back little by little to homebuyers and/or make money from rent as the years go by. And a nitwit like you prattles on online?

yeah because that's what happened in 2006 and 2007 right Roberto a Ribas, you moron!

There is no correlation in this chart before 2000. If at all, there is one for higher prices for lower rates and lower prices for higher rates for the current millenium.

mell says

There is no correlation in this chart before 2000. If at all, there is one for higher prices for lower rates and lower prices for higher rates for the current millenium

There is no correlation after 2000 either. Interest rates have slowly fallen while home prices went up sharply, then down sharply. I defy anyone to find a correlation there.

I know I really shouldn't encourage the bears, but here's an interesting flipper special that swung for the fences this summer -- and missed (so far).
The home at 1231 Neilson Street was originally purchased for $410k in 2002. Looking at the recorder's site, it appears that there were a couple of WaMu refies (usually the kiss of death) which resulted in a NOD and eventual foreclosure. According to Redfin, it was purchased at a foreclosure auction for $555.5k in February of 2013. It went up for sale in April for $750k. It still has not sold and is now asking $639,900. Stay tuned at http://www.redfin.com/CA/Berkeley/1231-Neilson-St-94706/home/1578849

It should be noted, inventory is still tight and the market was hot this summer.

tatupu70 says

mell says

There is no correlation in this chart before 2000. If at all, there is one for higher prices for lower rates and lower prices for higher rates for the current millenium

There is no correlation after 2000 either. Interest rates have slowly fallen while home prices went up sharply, then down sharply. I defy anyone to find a correlation there.

It is a direct correlation if you take 2000 (first bubble burst) to the crisis of 2008 (then the Fed "liquidity bazooka") and since it ends in 2010 it does not show the increases in the last 2 years. But they can't push em any lower so the effect is wearing off now. You could argue there is no strong correlation even since 2000, but it's good enough for me to predict stagnating/falling house prices for stagnating/rising long-term yields.

What matters is the *real* interest rate. Sure, nominal rates were high in 1980, but so was inflation. R=N-I

We need a "talk your own book" thread, where everyone can badmouth or plug real estate, gold, whatever according to whether they're long/short/owning/renting/etc.

mell says

It is a direct correlation if you take 2000 (first bubble burst) to the crisis of 2008 (then the Fed "liquidity bazooka") and since it ends in 2010 it does not show the increases in the last 2 years.

So there's a direct correlation if you cherry pick the data. Got it.

mell says

But they can't push em any lower so the effect is wearing off now

Huh? If there's a correlation, it will show. Correlations don't "wear off".

mell says

You could argue there is no strong correlation even since 2000, but it's good enough for me to predict stagnating/falling house prices for stagnating/rising long-term yields.

I'm not arguing it, that's a fact. You can predict whatever you'd like, just realize that the data doesn't support such a prediction.

Tim Aurora says

You pointed to a blog while I pointed to an article.

He posted the graph illustrating the lack of correlation. Looking at that, you still claim a correlation??

Further, that is real house prices--we should be looking at nominal which actually show a slight positive correlation with interest rates.