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Tue Jan 15 2008
SF East Bay House Data from 2007 (eastbayhousingbubble.blogspot.com)
Is U.S. heading for Japan-like troubles? (app.com)
Economists see down year for housing (desmoinesregister.com)
Housing Market Tracker (seekingalpha.com)

Mon Jan 14 2008
San Francisco Prices Fall 4.6% in Just 3 Months (housingwire.com)
44% Decline in SF Bay Area Suburb (patrick.net)
Shiller Says recent buyers "have an incentive to default" (bloomberg.com)
We've run out of bubbles (articles.moneycentral.msn.com)
Housing: No room for bulls (money.cnn.com)
Lennar's New Houses Fetch 60% Less (bloomberg.com)

Thu Jan 10 2008
Housing: A Fresh Jolt of Bad News (businessweek.com)
Record 10,700 houses lost in 07 (news-press.com)
The National Association of Realtors' Fuzzy Math (seekingalpha.com)

Wed Jan 9 2008
Housing Slump to Continue: Fannie CEO (biz.yahoo.com)
Paulson 'Sees No Evidence' Housing Decline Is Ending (bloomberg.com)
Dismal Outlook for SF Bay Area Housing (kcbs.com)
L.A. listing prices down $95K from peak (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
America's inflated asset prices must fall (news.yahoo.com)
Robert Shiller Gets It Wrong (marketoracle.co.uk)

Tue Jan 8 2008
San Diego Dollar Sales Volume Down 66% (patrick.net)
Disappearing House Equity (greatdepression2006.blogspot.com)
Notion of 'moral hazard' getting blame for troubles (chicagotribune.com)

Mon Jan 7 2008
Builders, Lenders Fall (biz.yahoo.com)
Study Shows Huge Gap Between Rents and House Prices (efinancedirectory.com)
With Lust In Our Hearths (newsweek.com)
Bankruptcies jump 40 percent in 2007 (money.cnn.com)
Case Shiller Housing Index Too Optimistic (seekingalpha.com)
A bottom best-case for '08 housing (ocregister.com)

Fri Jan 4 2008
New Year Brings Another False Dawn for Housing (bloomberg.com)
Predictions for 2008 (financialsense.com)
13 Predictions for 2008 (seekingalpha.com)
House Prices Must Fall Far To Be In Sync With Rents (online.wsj.com)
Can anyone make money off the real-estate bubble? (slate.com)
Lower house prices helping wounded war veterans (chron.com)
California Central Valley housing market to be among last to recover (modbee.com)
$270,000 off Peak in LA (doctorhousingbubble.com)
Anatomy of a Bubble (sdreader.com)
The anatomy of the United States housing crisis (seacoastonline.com)

Thu Jan 3 2008
California Prices Plummeting (patrick.net)
San Jose down 30%, Stockton down 60% (patrick.net)
Expect next year to be as bad or worse (sanluisobispo.com)
Existing Home Sales Expected to Remain Stuck at Record Low (biz.yahoo.com)
Housing Prices Expected to Keep Falling (npr.org)
US approaching 1 year backlog of unsold houses (patrick.net)
Can We Cure Our 'House Lust'? (realclearpolitics.com)
Crystal ball looks for a bolt out of the blue (sfgate.com)
Brain-Dead Predictions about Housing (Charles Hugh Smith)
Tom Toles Cartoons (washingtonpost.com)

Wed Jan 2 2008
Disconnect between NAR assessment and reality on the ground (thetrumpet.com)
Lower Price Missing from MLS (patrick.net)
How $100bn vanished (guardian.co.uk)
Things That "Can't" Happen (Mish)
Stockton, city of debt, shows US housing woe (news.bbc.co.uk)
South Florida house prices continue to slide (sun-sentinel.com)
Housing slump will spread far and wide (business.theage.com.au)
Top economist says America could plunge into recession (business.timesonline.co.uk)
Stats on November's Housing Market: Ugly Stuff (thetrumpet.com)
More bad news for folks trying to unload existing houses (palmbeachpost.com)
Investors and Refinancers Get Lumps Of Coal For Xmas (sandiegopredatorylending.com)
Housing crash in top 3 stories of 2007 (dailybulletin.com)
2007 Ending On Decidedly Sour Note (courant.com)
Bad Housing Predictions of 2007 (seekingalpha.com)
Jim Kunstler's Forecast for 2008 (jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com)

Mon Dec 31 2007
San Diego Price Trends (patrick.net)
San Francisco Prices Fall 6.2% (patrick.net)
Sales and house prices in free fall (nytimes.com)
Realty reality: Housing prices are headed way down (latimes.com)
New house sales at 12-year low after 9% drop (money.cnn.com)
New House Sales: Ugly! (seekingalpha.com)
New House Sales: A Stunning Slide (businessweek.com)
Decline in American house prices not over yet (business.timesonline.co.uk)
Housing market plunged deeper into despair (hosted.ap.org)
'Eminently Rational' Housing Slump (blogs.wsj.com)
How experts got housing wrong (money.cnn.com)

Fri Dec 28 2007
House Prices Post Record Decline (businessweek.com)
House prices fell faster in October (sfgate.com)
Shiller: Single-Family Housing Market Is "Grim" (seekingalpha.com)
Housing woes reflected in Census Bureau figures (kansascity.com)
International House Prices in 2007 (efinancedirectory.com)
October House Prices Post Record Decline (biz.yahoo.com)

Thu Dec 27 2007
House Prices Declined at Faster Pace (bloomberg.com)
House Price Decline Hits New Record (seekingalpha.com)
House prices post record annual drop (news.yahoo.com)
U.S. house prices fall record 6.7 percent in October (tcpalm.com)
Edgy buyers, mortgage crunch spell more housing gloom in 2008 (marketwatch.com)
Blame abounds for housing bust (washingtontimes.com)
Are We Having a Housing Crisis Dj Vu? (seekingalpha.com)
Even Hot Housing Markets Can Go Cold (businessweek.com)

Wed Dec 26 2007
Crisis may make 1929 look a 'walk in the park' (telegraph.co.uk)
Will they Call them 'Bushvilles'? (financialarmageddon.com)
The Sound of a Bubble Bursting (nytimes.com)

Mon Dec 24 2007
Builder talks of 35% SoCal price cuts (lansner.freedomblogging.com)
Central CA prices down 23% so far (modbee.com)
Housing market outlook for 2008 is bleak (money.cnn.com)
U.S. housing crash to deepen in 2008 after record drop (dailyreportonline.com)
American banks: Unhappy new year (economist.com)
Sellers dumping realtors (venturacountystar.com)

Fri Dec 21 2007
Time To Buy? Not So Fast (seekingalpha.com)
Real estate pros look for exits (baltimore.bizjournals.com)
Bay Area house sales at two-decade low (sfgate.com)
Truth of the 10 Percent Southern CA Price Drop (doctorhousingbubble.com)
Idaho foreclosures have more than doubled over last year (idahostatesman.com)

Thu Dec 20 2007
How Hidden Incentives Distort House Prices (online.wsj.com)
Builders Creating Phony Propped-Up House Sale Prices (economicsbriefing.com)
Inland Empire lot prices sliced in half (lansner.freedomblogging.com)
Real estate slowly becoming imaginary estate (onlinejournal.com)
No Bottom Yet: Housing Permits Drop To 14-Year Lows (seekingalpha.com)

Wed Dec 19 2007
Southern California prices down 10% (reuters.com)
Top 10 U.S. Housing Markets to Drop 8% in 2008 (seekingalpha.com)
A Look at Past U.S. House Price Corrections (efinancedirectory.com)
Dispelling The Myth That A House Is A Good Investment (millionairemommynextdoor)
US housing crisis reverberates around the globe (news.yahoo.com)
Confidence in US housing market spirals lower (guardian.co.uk)
U.S. Housebuilder Confidence Declines To All Time Low (allheadlinenews.com)
Housing - Simple As That (financialsense.com)

Mon Dec 17 2007
Price drop is deepest of the year in Twin Cities (startribune.com)
Today's house-buyers are learning things the hard way (amarillo.com)
Money pits (star-telegram.com)
House prices show big drop (sptimes.com)
How low must housing prices go? (marketwatch.com)
1,336 foreclosures auctioned -- only 17 sold (modbee.com)
Crash To Deepen in 2008 After Record Drop (bloomberg.com)

Fri Dec 14 2007
Houseowners' equity fading away (articles.moneycentral.msn.com)
Why a 'Soft Landing' is Unlikely (alternet.org)
Some blame rests with overbuilding (money.cnn.com)
Housing Crash In Pictures (Mish)
Housing Bear Threat-O-Graph (voiceofsandiego.org)
US Housing Bust vs. Japan Housing Bust (homeguide123.com)

Thu Dec 13 2007
No, Pending House Sales Index Did Not Rise (seekingalpha.com)
63% of U.S. Housing Markets are Overvalued (efinancedirectory.com)

Wed Dec 12 2007
Chart: Genesis of a Crisis (bigpicture.typepad.com)
Housing market to remain weak (pe.com)
Washington Mutual to close 190 offices (sfgate.com)
Your Income and Your House (tcsdaily.com)
The Housing Market Meltdown (truthout.org)

Tue Dec 11 2007
A Story of Declining House Values in Antioch,California (nalert.blogspot.com)
Even Hot Housing Markets Can Go Cold (businessweek.com)
In Cape Coral, a boom gone sour (csmonitor.com)
Depressed housing market is good news for renters (sun-sentinel.com)
Housing: a crisis with staying power (csmonitor.com)
US foreclosures hit record high (dailytimes.com.pk)
DC Area Foreclosures on the Rise (washingtonpost.com)
The Unintended Consequences of the Housing Bubble Bursting (Charles Hugh Smith)

Mon Dec 10 2007 Large drop in U.S. house prices (thestar.com)
Why House Prices Are Important To the U.S. Economy (seekingalpha.com)
What Should Today's Median Housing Price Be? (seekingalpha.com)
Priced to sell (sptimes.com)
House equity down in the third quarter (money.cnn.com)
Seattle house prices slip (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Fri Dec 7 2007
House prices may see 3-year fall (news.yahoo.com)
House prices seen falling 30% (reuters.com)
It's Not 1929, but It's the Biggest Mess Since (washingtonpost.com)

Thu Dec 6 2007
Houseowners With Negative Equity (calculatedrisk.blogspot.com)
Two Houses For The Price Of One In Vegas (housingdoom.com)

Wed Dec 5 2007
House prices see biggest drop in 25 years (money.cnn.com)
We've never seen an inventory overhang that big in California (socalbubble.com)
There's No Shame in Renting, House Prices Will Fall (homeguide123.com)
What is a Bubble? (irvinehousingblog.com)

Tue Dec 4 2007
Price Declines Portend Extended Downturn (seekingalpha.com)
Housing Slump's Third Year to Be Deepest Since WWII (bloomberg.com)
O.C. distressed houses up 6% in 2 weeks (mortgage.freedomblogging.com)

Mon Dec 3 2007
US house prices fall sharply (guardian.co.uk)
Sales Drop 23.5%; Prices Fell 13% (seekingalpha.com)
Study Warns of Decline In Value of U.S. Houses (realestatejournal.com)
Housing glut causes rents to fall (pe.com)
Upscale House Prices Are Going Down (abcnews.go.com)
Insured House Mortgage Defaults Reach Six-Year High (bloomberg.com)
Foreclosure Filings Increase 94 Percent in October (efinancedirectory.com)
New House Sales And Recessions (bp1.blogger.com)

Fri Nov 30 2007
Prices Fall, Inventories Rise, NAR Spins (seekingalpha.com)
Supply of houses on market at 22-year high (marketwatch.com)
In Real Estate, Even Smart Money Got Burned (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
What's so bad about falling house prices? (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
New house prices plunge but sales still miss forecasts (money.cnn.com)
In housing downturn, a new uncertainty factor (csmonitor.com)
Housing's Pain Not Easing (thestreet.com)

Thu Nov 29 2007
House sales record low despite largest drop in prices ever (money.cnn.com)
Existing House Sales Fall Again (biz.yahoo.com)
Housing Prices Set New Records - All of Them Bad (seekingalpha.com)
Hot Property The housing bust is really a land bust (businessweek.com)
No Sunshine For Florida Real Estate (keywestchronicle.blogspot.com)
Time to Hedge Your House? (businessweek.com)
L.A., O.C. house prices decline sharply (latimes.com)
Tips for selling your house (Hint: lower the price) (marketwatch.com)

Wed Nov 28 2007
House prices take steeper turn for the worse (money.cnn.com)
House price drop largest on record (news.yahoo.com)
House Sales and Prices Plummet in Third Quarter (efinancedirectory.com)
Real Prices Actually Lower Than Reported (thetrumpet.com)
How low will LA prices go? (latimes.com)
Idaho housing prices falling (idahostatesman.com)
This Old McMansion (Charles Hugh Smith)
King of the housing speculators (salon.com)

Tue Nov 27 2007
Who are the winners in mortgage mess? (msnbc.msn.com)
Why 2011 might not even be the end (blownmortgage.com)
America's Big, Fat Housing Inventory (businessweek.com)
Housing woes have domino effect (usatoday.com)
US vs. Japan Land Prices: Pictorial Update (Mish)

Mon Nov 26 2007
At Home, but Not in Their Own (washingtonpost.com)
Consider that house prices could fall 30% (nytimes.com)
How the World Works (salon.com)
Even average houseowners feel rising mortgage floodwaters (marketwatch.com)
SF Bay Area Housing Market Summary (homeguide123.com)
Detroit area housing slump wallops condos (detnews.com)
In the housing crisis: a chorus of complaints (realestate.msn.com)

Wed Nov 21 2007
House Prices Decline in 17 US States (efinancedirectory.com)
CA had biggest US house-price drops (lansner.freedomblogging.com)
Prices down 11% for San Francisco Area (housingtracker.net)
Bay Area real estate symposium forecasts more gloom (sfgate.com)
CA sees record $5 billion in foreclosures (centralvalleybusinesstimes.com)

Tue Nov 20 2007
Housing Market's Stench Means Cut Price to Sell (bloomberg.com)
San Mateo House Sellers in Trouble (baglady.dreamhosters.com)
O.C. distressed houses for sale up 8.7% in 2 weeks (mortgage.freedomblogging.com)
Six more hard years tipped for subprime fallout (thestandard.com.hk)
Surviving the Housing Slump (newsweek.com)
Fitzgerald Wrong: Rich Aren't Different (bloomberg.com)
House builder sentiment stuck at record low (usatoday.com)

Mon Nov 19 2007
SF Bay Area new house prices down 20% in two years (sfgate.com)
Fairfield, CA housing prices plunge 23% in one year (sfgate.com)
Forty to fifty cents on the dollar: the new reality (sptimes.com)
No shelter from the housing storm (articles.moneycentral.msn.com)

Fri Nov 16 2007
South CA house prices drop to 2005 levels (latimes.com)
California, Florida lead metros in house foreclosures (usatoday.com)
Stockton Foreclosure Rates Worst In Nation (kcra.com)

Thu Nov 15 2007
Charting the Housing Spin (fool.com)
SoCal house sales plunge in October (money.cnn.com)
OC Sales Log Another 40% Decline in October (ocbj.com)

Wed Nov 14 2007
How to Profit from the Real Estate Bust (doctorhousingbubble.com)
Housing market has buyers, sellers anxious about future (lsj.com)
House prices to keep sliding with no bottom in sight (reuters.com)

Tue Nov 13 2007
October House Prices in San Diego (voiceofsandiego.org)

Mon Nov 12 2007
A Real Estate Speculator Goes From Boom to Bust (nytimes.com)
Case Shiller House Price Index Graphing Tool (papereconomy.com)
Big declines needed in markets around the country (money.cnn.com)
Sorry Folks, the Housing ATM is Closed (seekingalpha.com)
How bad is Florida's housing market? F-minus-minus? (sptimes.com)
Down the Real-Estate Hole (usnews.com)

Fri Nov 9 2007
Calif. house prices 37% ahead of U.S. loan limits (lansner.freedomblogging.com)
Seattle prices down again -- it is NOT time to buy! (seattlepi.nwsource.com)
Price drops $1000 every day! (fortlauderdale.craigslist.org)
Most Affordable Places to Live Well (finance.yahoo.com)
Downside risks from financial shocks will persist (PDF - patrick.net)

Thu Nov 8 2007
Seattle prices fall as inventory swells (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Emerging Market Trends: What's Next? (seekingalpha.com)
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac debt-protection costs jump (reuters.com)
Price Research (patrick.net)
Who Created America's Housing Crisis? (moneyandmarkets.com)
Real Estate Is Officially Dead (patrick.net)

Wed Nov 7 2007
Realtor's Follies (paper-money.blogspot.com)
Soros sees "serious" correction (investing.reuters.co.uk)
Denver house prices, sales continue slide (denverpost.com)
House resales fall by 56% on Kauai (honoluluadvertiser.com)

Tue Nov 6 2007
Another Revealing Housing Chart (nakedcapitalism.com)
Treasury Secretary was CEO of Large Subprime Issuer (bloomberg.com)
When Will Housing Hit Bottom? (finance.yahoo.com)
The Invisible Hand (financialsense.com)
Housing glut hits home (journalgazette.net)

Mon Nov 5 2007
California appraisers say they're pushed to inflate house prices (sfgate.com)
Housing numbers still grim in CA Central Valley (modbee.com)
Conditions in the stricken US housing market worsen (business.timesonline.co.uk)
U.S. Housing Inventory Climbs to Record Level, Prices Fall (efinancedirectory.com)
The bubble's necessary correction (latimes.com)
Japan's housing crash still hurts, 14 years later (news.com.au)
How to time the real estate market (californiahousingforecast.com)
San Francisco vs US Income (wikimedia.org)

Fri Nov 2 2007
8 Cities Record Largest Price Declines on Record (efinancedirectory.com)

Thu Nov 1 2007
U.S. House Prices Go From Bad To Worse (seekingalpha.com)
Culver City Pricing Dysfunction! (doctorhousingbubble.com)
How the housing crash looks in South Florida (eyeonmiami.blogspot.com)
Ten Cities with the Most Houses for Sale (images.businessweek.com)
Federal House Loan Banks Act As Lender Of Last Resort (immobilienblasen.blogspot.com)