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27 Feb

New Homes Sales: 4th Drop in 6 months

by Barry Ritholtz
No surprise here: "New-home sales fell for the fourth time in six months during January, while inventories climbed to another...

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27 Feb

Home Prices Decellerate

by Barry Ritholtz
The WSJ’s Justin Lahart notes why we saw an increase in New Home Sales last month beyond the weather: Builders are lowering their...

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16 Feb

Housing Market & the Economy

by Barry Ritholtz
Yesterday, we noted how the unusually warm January weather (amongst other factors) played a large role in the US Retail Sales. Today, we...

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5 Feb

Tools for Finding a Mortgage

by Barry Ritholtz
There was a very helpful article in the WSJ Saturday, titled  Getting Wise to Mortgages. It contains lots of advice and tools to...

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30 Jan

The Real Estate Soufflé

by Barry Ritholtz
We have a decidely nuanced view of Real Estate: While not neccessarily a bubble, it has been the prime driver of the economy since rates...

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27 Jan

“Priced out of Brooklyn”

by Barry Ritholtz
Is NYC a Microcosm of the U.S.? I would never had thought so. Manhattan is totally unlike the rest of the nation. I always loved...

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26 Jan

Top Ticking Real Estate is Different Than Stocks

by Barry Ritholtz
Nice pair of charts from Northern Trust that show even as sales slow down: Prices still remain relatively robust: That may seem counter...

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26 Jan

Equity Extraction Fades, What Happens As As Home Sales Slow?

by Barry Ritholtz
Lots of Real Estate news recently. Let’s start with Existing Home Sales: WSJ:  "Sales of existing homes set a record for...

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21 Jan

Home Equity Loans Fall of the Cliff

by Barry Ritholtz
Alan Abelson, in this morning’s Barron’s, quotes Macro-Maven’s Stephanie Pomboy on why the consumer is soon to be...

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17 Jan

Soft Spots Go Beyond Employment

by Barry Ritholtz
One of the odder bits of analyses we have happened across over the holidays is this bit of explicative: “Of course employment has...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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