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Apartment Bubble Inflating Fast

Housing construction numbers for September were “blowout” and “smashed consensus,” according to analysts who follow the sector. Single family starts rose 11 percent from August and are up nearly 43 percent from a year ago. This from the depths of … Continue reading

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Property Flippers Are Back as Housing’s New Middle Men

Who can forget the heady days of the housing boom when property flippers would follow condo developers around like hungry wolves, waiting to pounce on new projects before one grain of earth had moved? Property auctions for single family homes … Continue reading

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Flippers’ role in housing flop larger than thought

(Source: By Kimberly Miller, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.) –More than 30 percent of Florida homebuyers during the boom year of 2007 had two or more mortgages, evidence of rampant investment that is partly blamed for real estate’s ruination, a … Continue reading

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Flippers’ role in housing flop larger than thought

By Kimberly Miller Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Post a Comment E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type More than 30 percent of Florida homebuyers during the boom year of 2007 had two or more mortgages, evidence of rampant investment that … Continue reading

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Investors drive the real-estate market in the Bay Area

OAKLAND, Calif. — Real-estate investors have become a potent force in a moribund housing market, accounting for more than one-fifth of transactions in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past 12 months, according to real-estate data. Despite record low … Continue reading

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Investors drive the real-estate market in the Bay Area

OAKLAND, Calif. — Real-estate investors have become a potent force in a moribund housing market, accounting for more than one-fifth of transactions in the San Francisco Bay Area over the past 12 months, according to real-estate data. Despite record low … Continue reading

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Fannie Mae Offers Investors New Financing Option

Remember how we all blamed investor/flippers using faulty financing for the housing crash? You know, these are all the bad guys who ran up home prices to their own profit, with no concern for the inevitable fallout; they colluded with … Continue reading

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