U.S. News & World Report - Amid high unemployment and sliding home prices, a growing number of struggling consumers are doing what was once considered unthinkable: paying their credit card bills instead of their mortgages. A recent study developed by TransUnion found the percentage of Americans who were current on their credit cards but behind on their mortgage increased to 6.6 percent in the third quarter of 2009, up from 4.3 percent in the first quarter of 2008. Meanwhile, the share of consumers making mortgage payments on time but behind on their credit cards moved in the opposite direction, sliding from 4. ...
AP - Homebuyers spurred by low interest rates and government incentives helped lift Beazer Homes USA Inc.'s sales in the last three months of 2009, but the builder only turned a profit because of a hefty tax gain.
Investor's Business Daily - China's young and red-hot housing market got caught up in the recession along with the rest of the world. But its downturn became neither as severe nor as prolonged as in the U.S.
AP - The financial wizards who concocted the complicated mortgage-linked investments that nearly brought down the world economy are trying to come back from the dead.
U.S. News & World Report - Making homes suitable for elderly occupants is easy to describe, but it can be very expensive to do. The cheapest solution is to make homes senior-friendly when they are built, rather than trying to retrofit them. Some of the most elegant and cost-effective solutions are recognized each year by AARP and the National Association of Home Builders. The winning designs employ imaginative solutions that reduce energy consumption and use smart communications tools for home security and health-related "telemedical" applications. ...
AP - A judge has ordered the foreclosure sale of the historic Riverton Houses, a middle-class Harlem apartment complex that plummeted in value amid the housing downturn.
Investor's Business Daily - A gauge of home loan demand in the U.S. shot up 21% to a 6-week high of 620.7 in the week ended Jan. 29 as buyers took advantage of low interest rates and the federal tax credit, the Mortgage Bankers Association said. The group's refi gauge leapt 26.3% as the average 30-year mortgage rate dipped to 5.01%, which is expected to rise later this year. The purchase index climbed 10%, suggesting that a renewed and expanded gov't tax credit is spurring demand after sales fell late last year on expectations the incentive would expire.
Reuters - A group of influential mortgage investors is intensifying efforts to encourage a new phase to U.S. housing stability plans that would give homeowners ability and incentive to pay their loans.
Reuters - The pace of job losses in the private sector slowed in January as employers reported the smallest payroll decline in nearly two years while demand for home loans hit a six-week high last week, data showed on Wednesday.
Reuters - More and more consumers are giving greater priority to paying credit card debt than making a mortgage payment, showing increased financial duress, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Reuters - Demand for home loans rose to a six-week high on a mini refinance wave, with borrowers pushing to lock in rates before they climb later this year, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday,
Reuters - Pending sales of existing U.S. homes edged up as expected in December, while home vacancies rose in the fourth quarter, pointing to a slow and painful recovery for the troubled housing market.
AP - The dollar dipped Tuesday after a report on the U.S. housing market showed some improvement, sparking interest in riskier trades, while worries over Greece's debt problems eased slightly.
U.S. News & World Report - The number of Americans signing home sales contracts flattened out in December after plunging the previous month. The National Association of Realtors' pending home sales index--which gages signed contracts but not transaction closings--inched up 1 percent from November to December and stands at nearly 11 percent above its year-earlier level. December's reading, which was released Tuesday, follows a month-over-month drop of roughly 16 percent in November. "You have hit some sort of floor level of demand in housing," says Mike Larson of Weiss Research.
Reuters - New York's famed Bloomingdale's department store opened its doors in the Middle East's biggest mall on Sunday in its first foray outside its home market.
AP - American Toyota owners are understandably alarmed about ballooning recalls over faulty gas pedals and floor mats. In Japan, the automaker's home market, where there have been no such recalls, the reaction is — also understandably — muted.
AP - Tishman Speyer Properties walks away from 11,232 Manhattan apartments because it can't pay its mortgage. That's good business.
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