Housing Meltdown

The dip followed two years of double-digit gains when the local market was rebounding from 2011, the area's worst year due to the housing crash and the uneven economic recovery. The figures come from Mid America Regional Information Systems, or MARIS …

After his term, the housing–bubble that had inflated the state's coffers burst big time, and Florida's economy under-performed much of the country during the financial crisis. While homeowners statewide went underwater, he landed a multi-million dollar …

If it takes the opinions of big movie stars to shine a needed spotlight on the housing market meltdown of 2007-2008, and the subsequent broader financial crisis that followed, then so be it. Especially since the point of books and films on the crisis …

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, there have been no shortage of arguments and varying explanations of various causes of the subprime mortgage collapse. While some scholars have pointed more toward government housing policy creating a …

If you want to see why America has a housing crisis and lots of regional real estate bubbles, just go to Seattle. A recent political battle in the Emerald City exposed both the real cause of high prices and the reason why …

The film, which will be released in December, profiles several outsiders who successfully bet against the housing market when everyone else believed it would continue to rise, as it always had. You already know the ending. Some viewers in the audience …

“The Big Short”: Critics haven't yet gotten a look at Adam McKay's seriocomic take on the 2008 housing bubble collapse. But the killer cast certainly looks promising: Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Marisa Tomei, Steve Carell, Melissa Leo …

Nobody: Mike Konczal: No, Marco Rubio, government did not cause the housing crisis: said: “This idea – that our problems were caused by a government that was too small – it's just not true. In fact, a major cause of our recent …

The housing crisis is in our rearview mirror, but don't get too comfortable—here are five lessons to keep in mind as you navigate the path to homeownership.

“The Big Short” has a little fun with the 2007 housing crash that led to widespread home foreclosures, vast job losses and a prolonged global recession. Not more fun than a devastating meltdown really calls for. But enough to keep your attention.

First, as discussed in great detail back in 2006 — 2007, the simple fact that historically, residential housing prices do not appreciate by such an astounding rate as they have here in paradise. It is safe to operate under the assumption that when …

"I wanted to play a small part in it to help get it to the screen, so I jumped in on the acting side as well," he said, explaining, "It was a really important story to me, I'm still angry by it, that no one was held accountable, this financial crisis …

The housing meltdown and financial crisis starting in 2006 battered agencies as public sources of funding dried up. Metcalf's boss at BRIDGE Housing, Carol Galante, was tapped by President Obama to be deputy assistant secretary for Multifamily Housing …

“Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center, a large-scale installation of models, drawings, photographs, and videos by artist-designer Damon Rich, melds Sesame Street graphics with do-it-yourself investigations into the intricacies of real …

Thirteen's Chief Executive Alison Thain, Chair of CBI North East, used the occasion to show Ms Fairbain how the Middlehaven area of Middlesbrough had been redeveloped, and to champion the stronger links between housing and business that she is …

… Japan could produce atomic weapons quickly if it wanted to. That is despite the fact of Fukushima's meltdown eight months earlier and its own government's moratorium on nuclear power in time he made his statement. …. Frankly I don't know if they …

Ever since the global financial crisis, economists have groped for reasons to explain why growth in the U.S. and abroad has repeatedly disappointed, citing everything from fiscal austerity to the euro meltdown. They are now coming …. William Dudley …

An emphasis on smart mortgage lending and other traditional banking services helped Wells Fargo recover more quickly from the housing meltdown. While it didn't entirely escape the fines and regulatory actions that the entire banking sector faced, Wells …