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No One Should Have Been Surprised by the Plunge in Home Sales

By Paul WachterAug 25th 2010 – 10:15AM

(Aug. 25) -- Whenever there's housing news, I turn to economist Dean Baker, one of the few to foresee the housing bubble, for insight. He takes issue with this sentence from today's Washington Post story: "Analysts had expected sales to decline following the expiration of a federal tax credit for homebuyers this spring,...

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  • 05/18/12 New mortgage lending falls by 30% Source: BreakingNews - Ireland The value of new mortgage lending in Ireland fell by 30% in the first three months of 2012 compared with the last quarter of 2011, an Irish banking federation PricewaterhouseCoopers mortgage market found.
  • 12/07/11 Making More Money Available Source: AllAfrica.com A major factor often cited by commercial banks as being responsible for the small size of Kenya's mortgage market is lack of long-term funding.
  • 02/22/11 How to Learn About Mortgages in 2011 Source: American Consumer News One important consideration that needs to be made when you are getting a mortgage loan is the nature of the current mortgage loan market.

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