Realty Check
- Friday, 6 Nov 2009 1:52 PM ETBy: Diana Olick
While the Realtors and Home Builders and Mortgage Bankers all bask in the glow of the home buyer tax credit extension/expansion, we all need to turn our attention to the real drag on a housing recovery: Foreclosures. » Read more - Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 3:33 PM ETBy: Diana Olick
In landslide votes, the extension/expansion of the first time home buyer tax credit passed both houses of Congress and is now on its way to the President's desk for signing tomorrow. » Read more - Thursday, 5 Nov 2009 11:55 AM ETBy: Diana Olick
Yep, thanks to a new program announced by the nation's largest owner of home loans, Fannie Mae, troubled borrowers can sign over the deed of their homes and rent back for the current market rate. » Read more - Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009 2:17 PM ETBy: Diana Olick
An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today about Wells Fargo & Co. modifying some of its worst loans into interest-only loans got me thinking about the housing recovery in a new light. » Read more - Tuesday, 3 Nov 2009 11:07 AM ETBy: Diana Olick
Despite all the yelling about the need for a government exit strategy from its massive economic bailouts, real estate welfare is still cooking with gas. » Read more - Monday, 2 Nov 2009 2:48 PM ETBy: Diana OlickAn interesting report today from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows business may be better than we think for their people. » Read more
- Friday, 30 Oct 2009 12:16 PM ETBy: Diana Olick
We may like to refer to them as the "beleaguered big builders," but in fact many of the top names in home building are sitting on piles and piles of cash. » Read more - Thursday, 29 Oct 2009 10:55 AM ETBy: Diana Olick
For those of you keeping score on the first time home buyer tax credit extension, here is the latest: The tax credit would be $8,000 for first-time home buyers and $6,500 for move-up buyers....The tax credit would sunset on April 30, 2010. » Read more
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Realty Check takes you from the housing boom to bust and beyond. Led by Diana Olick, we were here when the house came crashing down and we have the singular expertise to explain how it will be rebuilt. The goal of this blog is to bring the market, the rescue plans, the politics and the pontification home to you, with clear concise explanations of the wildly complicated issues in all facets of real estate today and tomorrow. Realty Check is read by leaders in the real estate industry: Investors, Realtors, Big builder CEOs, Mortgage Bankers, Wall Street Analysts and Administration Officials to name a few.
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Diana Olick is an Emmy Award winning journalist, currently serving as CNBC's real estate correspondent. She also contributes real estate expertise to The Today Show and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (Read full bio here).
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