The KCM Blog

April 2010

A Foreclosure’s Impact on Neighboring Home Values

April 14, 2010

Yesterday, we covered the coming surge of distressed properties that will enter the market in 2010. Today, we will discuss the impact these properties will have on housing values as we proceed throughout the year.  Questions you should be asking yourself are: 1) Do distressed properties sales impact the value of the surrounding homes, 2) [...]

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Foreclosures: Their Impact on Real Estate 2010

April 13, 2010

I firmly believe the foreclosure situation will be the main story line in real estate for the rest of 2010. There will be other key factors (unemployment, government involvement, interest rates, etc.). However, no issue will have the same impact as the tidal wave of distressed properties about to come to market. For purposes of [...]

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The 5 Keys to a Real Estate Recovery

April 12, 2010

The big question we seem to be getting as of late is whether or not a housing recovery will be coming by the second half of 2010. Today we asked Steve Harney to list five areas that will affect the two main components of a housing recovery: housing supply and demand. When aligned, these two [...]

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KCM Weekend Library Links

April 10, 2010

Interested in knowing what’s been going on in the real estate market as of late?  Check out our KCM Weekend Library Links below, and see all the real estate articles that we’ve shared over our Blog, Twitter and Facebookthe past week. There is a lot of information floating around out there, so we’ve done our best to bring [...]

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Interest Rates a Week after the Fed’s Exit

April 9, 2010

As the Fed was planning to exit the mortgage market at the end of last month, more and more experts were calling for the exit to be uneventful. Their belief was that there was ample demand sitting on the sideline ready to replace the Fed’s role. Well it is now a week later and let’s [...]

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How Do Rising Interest Rates Affect Affordability?

April 8, 2010

I have long been irked by mortgage “pre-approvals” that say a borrower is qualified to purchase a non-specific home for a specific loan amount.  Why?  Because, lenders don’t qualify borrowers based on the Purchase Price of a home, we qualify them for a particular Mortgage Payment (and payments vary based on a number of factors [...]

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