Calculated Risk: Home Seller Motivations

We told respondents, “Please think of the number of non-REO listings you currently have and then specify the number of home sellers by motivation. If more than one motivation applies, please select the single motivation that is most …

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Calculated Risk: Health Care Spending and PCE

These statistics, termed National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA), are compiled with the goal of measuring the total amount spent in the United States to purchase health care goods and services during the year. …

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Wholesale Inventories Dramatic Swoon, but Sales don't go along for …

The Montly Wholesale Trade: Sales & Inventories, June 2009 was released today. Folks, while productivity shows very bad news for workers to obtain new jobs, wholesale inventories is also showing that production is not expecting an …

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Calculated Risk: Study: Using Home ATM Led to Most Foreclosures in …

He found that, at least in Southern California, borrowers who defaulted on their mortgages didn’t purchase their homes at the top of the market. Instead, the average acquisition was made in 2002 and many homes lost to foreclosure were …

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Calculated Risk: New Home Sales increase in June, Highest since …

Months-of-supply for inventory has peaked, and there is some chance that sales of new homes has bottomed for this cycle – but we won’t know for many months. However any recovery in sales will likely be modest because of the huge …

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Calculated Risk: New Home Sales, Single Family Starts and Housing …

New Home sales for June are scheduled to be released on Monday morning by the Census Bureau.

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