by Jim Crowder | Sep 21, 2015 | HOUSING MARKET
We love articles from the Motley Fool, because they’re generally quite the opposite of foolish. Yesterday, they came up with 8 things you can do to improve your credit rating — which will almost certainly also improve the interest rate you can get on your...
by Jim Crowder | Sep 18, 2015 | HOUSING MARKET
OK, perhaps you can’t scribble up some notes on your dream mansion, feed the paper into a scanner, and have the home of your imagination pop out — but Big Delta hints at that in the future. Billed as the world’s largest 3D printer, this 40-foot tall...
by Jim Crowder | Sep 17, 2015 | HOUSING MARKET
All signs recently have been pointing to a sustained housing market, but CNBC reported two conflicting numbers today. Housing starts fell in August 3.0%, which was a larger drop than expected — but it’s mostly been in the Northeast, which fell 33%,...
by Jim Crowder | Sep 16, 2015 | HOUSING MARKET
Fourteen of the top 100 U.S. markets, in terms of home prices, are now “above the long-term fundamental value for that market”. CNBS insists that this is not a bubble, though in the opinion of this writer, the argument — that bubbles...
by Jim Crowder | Sep 15, 2015 | HOUSING MARKET
There’s a new book out by Bethany McClean — Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants — published by Columbia Global Reports, and focused on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Kai Ryssdal interviewed Bethany, and it’s available as a...
