Tag Archives: Housing Boom

Here’s What Is Fueling the Housing Boom in Vegas

Investors swarmed into the Las Vegas market, much like they did in Phoenix, AZ, using all-cash private equity funds to buy distressed properties in bulk. As competition grew and supplies shrunk, prices took off. While still well below the peak, … Continue reading

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Property Flippers Are Back as Housing’s New Middle Men

Who can forget the heady days of the housing boom when property flippers would follow condo developers around like hungry wolves, waiting to pounce on new projects before one grain of earth had moved? Property auctions for single family homes … Continue reading

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How Investors Are Skewing Home Price Recovery

Home prices finally appear to be catching up with the increase in overall sales pace. That is usually the case, as prices lag sales on the way up and on the way down.  The latest reading from SP/Case-Shiller, which employs … Continue reading

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Predicting Home Prices Is Now Impossible

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article When Robert Shiller, co-creator of the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices , speaks, he tends to make headlines, and yesterday was no different. Claiming that he wasn’t making any predictions, he predicted … Continue reading

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Predicting Home Prices is Now Impossible

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article When Robert Shiller, co-creator of the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices , speaks, he tends to make headlines, and yesterday was no different. Claiming that he wasn’t making any predictions, he predicted … Continue reading

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