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The housing singularity and other housing oddities – more coverage on financial history in Mildred Pierce about SoCal housing bubble than all local networks combined. Geithner first to trial test his negative equity home as a rental?


The worst performing cities of Los Angeles County – Top 10 cities with annual price declines for 2011. The fundamental attribution error when applying a nationwide housing bottom to your bubble niche market.


REO-to-rentals another Fed subsidy for big investors and select banks. Federal Reserve looking to engineer yet another bailout for key banking allies. Fed acknowledges 12,000,000 homes with negative equity.


Baby boomers and the 4 million seriously delinquent loans – 10,000 Americans turn 65 years of age each day and this trend will go on for nearly two decades. Housing starts and completions reach record low in 2011.


The future of the young American homebuyer. Average foreclosure timeline jumps from 253 days in 2007 to 674 days in 2011. Homeownership rates for younger Americans point to significant issues in household income, demographic changes, and attitude shifts in the desire to buy a home.


5 charts exploring the financial quicksand that real estate is stuck in for 2012 – Public debt now larger than GDP, entitlement challenges, post-bubble lows for housing, two lost decades for income, baby boomer demographics not looking positive for real estate.


The stubborn resistance of shadow inventory – six states make up over half of all shadow inventory. 3,000,000 distressed properties sold since January of 2009.


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