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Low-End Housing Sees Higher Losses

Page 1 of 2 | Next PageShow Entire Article As I sit here, less than 24 hours from the next release of the much-followed monthly SP/Case Shiller Home Price Index, I’m confronted with all kinds of varying data and hypotheses … Continue reading

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Short Sales Surge, But No Thanks to Government Program

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article Any time I see a 74 percent jump in anything, I hear alarm bells, so when the Treasury Department reported just that big a jump in its Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives … Continue reading

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Your Home as Corporate Housing: It Just May Get You a Job

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article Earlier this week I did a piece on television about how many job seekers are frozen in place because they can’t sell their homes to relocate for a new job. More … Continue reading

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Lack of Mobility Hurts Job Recovery

Page 1 of 2 | Next PageShow Entire Article The hallmark of the American labor market, and consequently the wider economy, has long been the mobility of our work force. From “going West” to “teleworking,” we go where the jobs … Continue reading

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Negative Equity Doesn’t Always Have to Mean Goodbye

The San Francisco Examiner reported a few weeks ago that “the percentage of “underwater” homes — worth less than they are mortgaged for — rose sharply in San Mateo County in the first quarter of this year. In the first … Continue reading

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