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1. Sales Volume Limp as Local Inventories Rise | HousingStorm.com

   Beginning 2007, inventories were already elevated and the market contained a dwindling qualified buyer pool and tightening credit standards; consequently, when a normal amount of spring listings hit the market, sales volumes were low, ... The same problems that existed in 2008 persisted into 2009 and became worse due to rising unemployment, strategic default, and a number of other problems. Now in 2010, we are seeing inventory rise again, but we are still well below ...

1. Uncontrolled Lending to Consumers Spawned the Financial Crisis ...

   First, lenders made loans that virtually invited default. Thus, Countrywide's manual approved the making of loans that left consumers as little as $550 a month to live on, or $1000 for a family of four. And lenders qualified borrowers for ...... The Feds have removed from brokers and lenders the right to order an appraisal, as the VA has done for years, and FHA use to do, in order to eliminate the appraisers' incentive to lower standards to compete for lenders' business. ...

1. It's Official: The US Housing Downturn Has Resumed in Earnest ...

   All the < 250k homes bought during the cash for flea bag program are already -15% in value and some 28% of them which are FHA paper are already in default. So keep buying the rat holes and hoping they will turn into a bidding war someday. .... Based on traditional convential mortgage lending standards, that family could afford a house costing between 2 and 2 1/2 times their annual income ($90000 to $125000). I don't see the average house price anywhere near that range, ...