By Bob Stokes
1/31/2012 5:45:00 PM
Will the wide swaths of vacant homes now visible in Detroit, Cleveland, Las Vegas and Florida become common elsewhere?...
Filed Under: consumer confidence, deflation, foreclosures, home sales, housing prices
Category: Real Estate
Can The Fed Rebuild The US Housing Market?
Robert Prechter's latest Elliott Wave Theorist shows you compelling evidence on whether the wait for a housing recovery is almost over
By Nico Isaac
1/23/2012 5:30:00 PM
As the leading US economists look ahead to the future, they see one glaring obstacle standing in the way to lasting recovery: the still, defunct real estate market. And, according to many mainstream experts, there is one surefire way to turn the housing sector around: government stimulus, stimulus, and more stimulus.
Filed Under: central banks, home sales, housing prices, Interest Rates, prechter, Robert Prechter, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), U.S. STOCK MARKET, Wall Street
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
1/10/2012 5:15:00 PM
It's time to learn specific steps on how to financially protect yourself before the economy sinks even deeper into a deflationary depression. Indeed, you can even position yourself to prosper in the months ahead. How?...
Filed Under: Club EWI, commercial real estate, conquer the crash, deflation, foreclosures, mania
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
11/11/2011 5:30:00 PM
Many home sellers wait hopefully for the real estate market to bounce back. But they may be waiting longer than they anticipate...
Filed Under: deflation, Elliott wave, housing prices, investor psychology, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
Vultures Circle the US Housing Market, Again
Why EWI's team of analysts, including Bob Prechter in his Conquer the Crash, foresaw the real estate crash -- and what Elliott wave analysis suggest for housing now
By Nico Isaac
9/27/2011 4:00:00 PM
On site of the gruesome real estate crash, financial paramedics have tried every resuscitating trick in the book to revive their dying patient: Trillions of dollars in government bailouts; repeated first-time buyer tax breaks; and record low mortgage rates. Yet, the US housing market is showing no gain activity.
Filed Under: Robert Prechter, conquer the crash, credit crisis, housing prices, Robert Prechter, subprime lending
Category: Real Estate
By Nico Isaac
9/22/2011 9:45:00 AM
When it comes to the US housing market, bigger no longer means better. A slew of recent news items confirm that the hunt for smaller homes is officially on. As for why? The August Socionomist reveals a long-term correlation between the average size of US homes and the rise and fall in social mood.
Filed Under: housing prices, socionomics, The Socionomist
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
9/16/2011 3:30:00 PM
Have you heard what Freddie Mac just announced? The 30-year fixed rate fell to 4.09 percent -- the lowest in six decades. But many "want-to-be" homeowners aren't in a position to take advantage of that. Here's why...
Filed Under: deflation, Elliott Wave Theorist, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
7/21/2011 5:30:00 PM
An overpriced listing will deter buyers even in a good housing market. Yet today's market includes an added risk...
Filed Under: commercial real estate, deflation, foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
6/6/2011 5:15:00 PM
Home prices were on a "one-way street" -- namely up. But as we know, the trend in real estate prices did an abrupt U-turn. Now it's traveling swiftly in the opposite lane. How long will this downward trend continue?...
Filed Under: 1929 Stock Market Crash, conquer the crash, economic depression, foreclosures, housing prices, subprime lending
Category: Real Estate
By Susan C. Walker
5/27/2011 2:00:00 PM
With a double-dip housing recession and foreclosures accounting for 28% of all U.S. home sales in April, the housing debacle is the gift that keeps on taking away. Elliott Wave International began warning about the consequences of too much credit in the U.S. economy and the housing markets in the early 2000s. What does it say now?
Filed Under: conquer the crash, foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
4/29/2011 3:30:00 PM
Commercial real estate's downward trend goes beyond suburban malls. Much office space in business districts is empty. Read this excerpt...
Filed Under: commercial real estate, conquer the crash, credit crisis, deflation, foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter, subprime lending
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
4/4/2011 5:15:00 PM
Does the latest housing data suggest a bottom now -- a time to go searching for your dream home?...
Filed Under: foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
US Housing Market: The Lost City Of Atlantis
Elliott wave analysis and historical stock market and real estate trend comparisons helped foresee the historic reversal in the US real estate market.
By Nico Isaac
2/10/2011 6:00:00 PM
According to the most recent quarterly real estate market survey from Zillow.com, the percentage of U.S. homes UNDERWATER -- i.e., those whose market values are below what's owed on them -- soared from 20% in August 2010 to 27% today. On top of that, home prices continue to decline while foreclosure rates rose to a new, all-time record high. (February 10, 2011 Associated Press)
Filed Under: foreclosures, housing prices, market forecasts, subprime lending, Wall Street
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
1/27/2011 4:15:00 PM
Much of what makes a "home and hearth" cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Even so, it's not wise to ignore the financial facts of residential real estate...
Filed Under: consumer spending, credit crisis, economic depression, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, housing prices, subprime lending
Category: Real Estate
By Nico Isaac
1/13/2011 1:45:00 PM
In October 2010, I wrote about real estate short sales in an article titled, "An End To Easy Lending: The Irony and Agony of Real Estate." The irony was that there's nothing SHORT about trying to buy a house via a short sale. It's usually the longest, most drawn out means of buying a home -- and it often ends in failure. As an example, I provided my own experience of jumping through hoops for three months as I waited for the bank to approve my own short sale offer on a totally affordable apartment -- only to be denied.
Filed Under: conquer the crash, great depression, housing prices
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
12/14/2010 4:45:00 PM
The evidence so far shows that the Fed's attempts to stop the deflationary trend will fail, including home values...
Filed Under: conquer the crash, U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed), foreclosures, housing prices, quantitative easing, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
12/1/2010 4:15:00 PM
Houses are just one of many assets that skyrocketed during The Great Asset Mania. Our analysis suggests that the "downward spiral" has much further to fall...
Filed Under: foreclosures, housing prices, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate
"We Finance Land"
Will Farmland Become as Cheap as Dirt (Again)?
By Bob Stokes
10/27/2010 4:45:00 PM
"'It's really been amazing,' said Howell Moore, who runs a cotton-growing and gin operation in Sommerville, Tenn. 'We haven't seen anything like this. I have seen it take a couple of runs before in my life, but nothing like this."...
Filed Under: sugar futures, Elliott Wave Principle
Category: Real Estate
By Nico Isaac
10/26/2010 6:15:00 PM
Such is the first irony of the today's real estate market: There is nothing "short" about short sales. They are usually the longest, most drawn out, oft-ending-in-failure means of buying a home. Which leads to the second irony: Mortgage rates stand at historically low levels right now, yet the increasingly strict lending standards of banks makes it harder for even the most credit-worthy person to buy a home.
Filed Under: housing prices
Category: Real Estate
By Bob Stokes
9/24/2010 2:45:00 PM
But despite lower prices and a near record low 30-year mortgage rate (4.44%), many of those families are not buying. Have we reached a bottom in residential real estate?...
Filed Under: Warren Buffett, Robert Prechter
Category: Real Estate