Atlanta Real Estate and Atlanta Homes For Sale » real estate cycle http://maxsell.net Buy, sell or lease real estate in North Metro Atlanta, GA. Homes, office space, industrial warehouse, land and investment properties. Wed, 23 May 2012 13:21:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Another Point of Light, guest post by Brian Dubuc http://maxsell.net/another-point-of-light/ http://maxsell.net/another-point-of-light/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:54:29 +0000 bdubuc http://maxsell.net/?p=783
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Recent news stories about the federal plan to support the U.S. financial system explain that the Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen has shifted the focus of this effort from purchasing suspect mortgage backed securities to other non-real estate backed securities and bank capitalization.  The question is why?

If you are looking for that pony in the pile like I am, the answer is obvious – the toxicity of mortgage backed securities was not nearly as bad as was feared.  The stock markets seem to think so too.  Yesterday, real estate stocks were way up.  Huh?

If you also believe that the stock market is a harbinger of things to come, then this is good news.  Of course, we could have a massive sell off today of real estate stocks.  The other explanation is that the initial investment in those CDOs and MBS issues was enough to contain the fire, and now the blaze has moved to other sectors of the financial world.  I just like my theory better, because I just know that I am going to find that pony.

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]]> http://maxsell.net/another-point-of-light/feed/ 0 Real Estate Market Cycle Video http://maxsell.net/real-estate-market-cycle-video/ http://maxsell.net/real-estate-market-cycle-video/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:30:52 +0000 Brad Nix http://maxsell.net/?p=579 As real estate agents, we are constantly asked… how did the housing market collapse?  why is taking so long to sell me house?  is this the first time we’ve had a housing crash?  when will it rebound?  While we love to answer these questions and encourage everyone to ask more by contacting us here, I thought it may be worth having our readers watch this video produced by John Burns Consulting for the builder industry.  It’s a long cartoon, but is a great illustration of real estate cycles.  Thanks to Bob Schenkenberger for tipping me off to this video in his post about how Explaining the Market is much easier than Timing the Market.

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