Housing Crisis

Is the Housing Bubble Back? These Four US Cities Are in the Danger Zone

By Diana Olick, CNBC

Home price gains are accelerating again, and in some cities those values are overheating. Four of the nation's largest cities are now considered overvalued, according to CoreLogic. Home prices in...
The Most Outrageous Housing Market in America

By Ciro Scotti

There are overheated housing markets, and then there is the San Francisco Bay Area – that rarified piece of the planet that is the home of so many high-tech companies and the incubator for hundreds...
Why the Housing Market Could Keep Rising for Years

By Janna Herron

The number of first-time homebuyers could increase by a third over the next five years, adding a big boost to the housing market and the broader economy, according to a new study. Credit reporting...
Home Prices Hit an All-Time High: Is This Another Bubble?

By Janna Herron

U.S. home prices set an all-time high in June, eclipsing the previous peak set nearly a decade ago. While the record may make homeowners feel house rich, the rate of appreciation in many markets may...
The Economic Problem Americans Are Worried About but the Candidates Are Ignoring

By Kellie Lunney, Government Executive

Seventy-one percent of Americans think that affordable housing should be a main focus of the political parties’ platforms during the 2016 presidential campaign, and 74 percent said they are more...

Why the Housing Market Will Boom Again

By Akin Oyedele, Business Insider

The next housing boom will be triggered by millennials. Like older demographic groups, the lumped-together cohort of 20- and 30-somethings is interested in getting married, starting families, buying...
The Oil Crisis Has Killed These Housing Markets

By Akin Oyedele, Business Insider

Most of the worst housing markets in America have one thing in common: oil. And markets in energy-producing areas make up most of the bottom-ranked parts of America. Related: Here’s a Sign the...
Banks Got Bailed Out, Homeowners Got Sold Out — and the Feds Made a Killing

By David Dayen

The government turned an unprecedented crime ring of systemic fraud into a piggy bank, without distributing its profits to the homeowner victims.
Why Oil's Collapse Could Ultimately Be Worse than the Housing Crisis

By Mark Harrington, CNBC

Oil and gas companies borrowed heavily when oil prices were soaring above $70 a barrel. But in the past 24 months, they've seen their values and cash flows erode ferociously as oil prices plunge —...
The Big Problem with ‘The Big Short’

By David Dayen

Too many crisis narratives write ordinary people out of the picture, which actually makes us more vulnerable to a replay. That’s especially true because the new dangers won’t come from the same place.

Better than a Bank Bailout: A Federal Lottery

By Mark Thoma

The growing outrage over the Fed’s rescue of too big to fail banks was stoked by news from Bloomberg that banks made 13 billion dollars in profit from low interest discount window loans. However, as...
New Home Sales Rise in October

By DEREK KRAVITZ

Americans bought slightly more new homes in October, a hopeful sign for the troubled housing market. But the median sales price fell to its lowest level of the year, and the overall sales pace is...
Housing Is Showing Faint Signs of Life

By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal Times

A few key indicators in the battered housing industry have ticked in the right direction. At the same time, home prices are expected to drop another 8 percent through 2013 as lenders work through the...
CFPB Head Lashes Out at Conservative Critics

By Charles Clark, Government Executive

The general counsel of the months-old Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Leonard Kennedy, defended his colleagues from conservative critics who portray his agency’s regulators as champions of “...
The EPA’s Lead-Paint Lead Balloon

By Jennifer Depaul, The Fiscal Times

In the year since a new Environmental Protection Agency lead-paint regulation went into effect, remodeling companies that complied with it are losing business. But enforcement is so lax, most...

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