If you’re new to Altos Research, check out our main web site to learn about how we do our real estate market data and how you can benefit from it. Some good news for those of you who have made Blogger.com your blogging platform of choice: You’ll now find handy Blogger sharing icons sprinkled in [...]
Just in time for the spring fashion season, we’re introducing a new addition to our lineup of themes for AltosReports and AltosConnect – Black. Never out of style, this new design goes with everything in your wardrobe and is appropriate for any occasion. Below are a few snapshots – if you like what you see, just [...]
In last week’s “2010 Housing Market Leading Indictors” webinar, we discussed the need for the private banking sector to pick up the slack in mortgage origination when the federal government bows out this Spring. A requirement for a successful transition is the recovery of mortgage securitization (RMBS issuance) that will enable private banks to offload [...]
Thanks to those that joined us for Wednesday’s live webinar – “2010 Housing Market Leading Indicators, presented by Altos Research.” We’ve had TONS of requests for the presentation slides and a recording of the event. Ask and ye shall receive…
The presentation is now hosted on our YouTube Channel and available in parts to enable you [...]
Big event starting on Sunday. We’ll be there. Why is the American Securitization Forum 2010 Conference so important? The topics covered at the ASF meetings set the tone for the next year and show the financial market’s response to government and private sector initiatives for the securitization market. Many of our clients trade RMBS, whole [...]
A DSNews article from yesterday (”GAO Releases Report on Loan Performance and Negative Equity“) covers the release of a US Government Accountability Office report – Loan Performance and Negative Home Equity in the Nonprime Mortgage Market. The report is a look at loan performance and negative equity across the 16 US markets, taking a faulty [...]
We’ve just returned from New York City, attending last week’s Real Estate Connect New York City 2010 hosted by InmanNews. Outstanding event to hear what’s happening right now in the real estate industry, and we’re all about real-time… Thought this would be a good time to close out our “2009 Year End Trends” blog post [...]
The Altos Research January 2010 Real-Time National Housing Report is now available for download. Some highlights from this month’s report:
The Altos Research 10-City Composite Price was down by 1.0% in December and 1.4% during the fourth quarter of 2009. For the full year 2009, the Composite Price Index showed an increase of 5.2%.
The Composite [...]