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A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it. - Churchill

August 8th, 2007

Lots of Choices for Phoenix Homebuyers- 55063 of them

Phoenix MLS inventory reaches a new high and breaks the 55,000 mark.  According to M:

Total number of properties found: 55,063

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August 8th, 2007

NAR: It’s always uphill from here

Every month the National Association of Realtors puts out their U.S. Economic Outlook.  It’s a cheerful, upbeat report that would make Goldilocks proud.  When the NAR releases this report every month, they conveniently use the same URL, and do not archive their predictions. [Almost as if they worry that someone might look back and check their performance.]

The NAR may not archive these forecast, but I’ve been plugging them into Excel monthly .  [We wouldn’t want them to get lost!] While I missed July, I have graphed here their year-over-year price projections since April, and I spotted an interesting trend:

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August 8th, 2007

Cramer: When the rest of the mortgage industry goes under… don’t panic.

In an interview for thestreet.com, Jim Cramer stated:

When the rest of the mortgage broker industry goes under (except for, I believe, Countrywide, maybe Thornburg Mortgage), again, don’t panic. These are not big industries, and a lot of the damage has already been done

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