{"id":6118,"date":"2009-11-25T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2016-09-20T05:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:29:34","slug":"3-housing-charts-less-bad-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/3-housing-charts-less-bad-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Housing Charts &#8211; Less Bad of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cartoon-time-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6125 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"cartoon time\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/cartoon-time-1.jpg\" alt=\"cartoon time\" width=\"285\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a>We are seeing a few numbers that are &#8220;headlining&#8221; well. For example, the Case-Schiller reported a 9.36% year-over-year decline. But, the declines are on top of declines that were already have seen. Of course we all knew there would be a time that show a slow-down of rapid declines that were occurring; or houses would be worth ZERO in no time. So, are we glad to see the drop slowing. BUT&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The fact is that all of the housing numbers will look better for the foreseeable future since last year&#8217;s fall was off the charts. Digging deeper into the report also shows that many of the existing home sales are still from distressed properties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In addition, it has been shown that there is a trend that banks and mortgage issuers are allowing for those that are delinquent on their payments to either allow a lease-back of the property OR to have the mortgagee live in it the dwelling temporarily (free of payments).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Postponing a foreclosure is an interesting idea that will obviously kick the can down the road allowing for banks to build more of a cash cushion to weather the wave of Alt-A foreclosures that are coming. The real question is whether they will be able to handle the timing of that problem with the commercial real-estate implosion that will be arriving simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For now, we close our eyes and cover our ears and hope for the best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schiller-20091124-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6098\" title=\"Schiller 20091124\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Schiller-20091124-1.jpg\" alt=\"Schiller 20091124\" width=\"509\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/House-Price-Index-20091124-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6096\" title=\"House Price Index 20091124\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/House-Price-Index-20091124-1.jpg\" alt=\"House Price Index 20091124\" width=\"568\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Existing-Home-Sales-20091124-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6095\" title=\"Existing Home Sales 20091124\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Existing-Home-Sales-20091124-1.jpg\" alt=\"Existing Home Sales 20091124\" width=\"565\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Disclosure: <a title=\"Horowitz &amp; Company\" href=\"http:\/\/www.horowitzandcompany.com\">Horowitz &amp; Company<\/a> clients may hold positions of securities mentioned as of the date published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeing a few numbers that are &#8220;headlining&#8221; well. For example, the Case-Schiller reported a 9.36% year-over-year decline. But, the declines are on top of declines that were already have seen. Of course we all knew there would be a time that show a slow-down of rapid declines that were occurring; or houses would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}