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4 current trends in the housing market: Rents holding steady nationwide, young home buyers, bidding war trends, and going after strategic defaulters.


Welcome back to some of the housing inventory: Irvine inventory up 88 percent from March. Americans back to non-saving ways.


The confidence game in housing: Fed could slow Quantitative Easing later this year. Maybe. Federal Reserve expands balance sheet by $500 billion since QE3 began in September.


Is the low interest rate environment causing a different kind of housing bubble? The tracking of the Effective Federal Funds Rate and 30-Year Conventional Mortgage.


Where did the California foreclosures go? Level of foreclosures sales dramatically down. Foreclosure legislation and bank processing. Subsidizing investor purchases via HAFA.


Is the new kind of real estate investor to blame for the falling home ownership rate? The current data on investor purchases, home ownership, and all cash purchases.


The drawn out impact of quantitative easing on real estate: Japanese real estate continues to struggle while Bank of Japan expands monetary base. Federal Reserve and Americans style quantitative easing.


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