How to Short a House
One of the comments that came up repeatedly on the Housing is Not a Bubble column was the assertion that "You cannot short a...
Don’t Buy Housing Bubble Propaganda
UPDATE: The original version of this is still available on Real Money (subscription only). The 2005 article details was a pushback...
Half of New Jobs Are Real Estate Related
Did that title get your attention? Its barely an exaggeration: We’ve discussed — quite extensively — how stimulus...
New Column up at Real Money (05/26/05)
My latest Real Money column, Don’t Buy Housing Bubble Propaganda, looks at some of the numbers driving the real estate boom. ...
As Prices Rise, Homeowners Go Deep in Debt to Buy Real Estate
I know I said we were done, but today’s front page WSJ article will be it for a while: "Five years into a housing boom that...
Playboy Bunny or Real Estate Investor?
Gary send in these very interesting comments: Geez, just as the dot.com distorted the allocation of capital and resources (i.e., too much...
Real Estate Wrap up
Search for the words "real estate bubble" on Google and it returns you 1,720,000 hits. This past week, we heard a lot of...
How Housing Lowers CPI
Tony Crescenzi had an interesting article on RealMoney this week. In it, he notes that as the housing market soars, it ends up knocking...
Real Estate Blogs
There’s a ton of interesting Real Estate blogs out there. Some are regional, many of which are run by agents. Others address...
Interest Only Loans, 1.00% Mortgages
One of my favorite econopundits, the Penobscot Princess (still running in stealth mode), penned an intriguing dissertation on the...