Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Saturday, October 23, 2010, 9:24 PM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs and web sites. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[NYT via The Big Picture] NY to Hold Lawyers Accountable on Foreclosures.
[The Atlantic Wire] Cell Phone Number Sells for $750K in Kuwait.
[Flowing Data] Privacy and the Internet
Our second hour was pre-empted by the Rutgers Scarlet Knights Football. They lost.
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Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Monday, August 30, 2010, 11:19 AM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs and web sites. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[Refin] You Only Get One Chance to Make a First Impression. Price correctly right from the start when listing your house for sale.
[The Mortgage Porter] The Cash-In Refi. 22% of refi’s include people that pay in to get a better rate.
[Ritholtz/The Big Picture] History of US Interest Rates: 1790-Present. Other than WWII, rates are at their lowest level in a few hundred years.
I’ve been pretty inconsistent posting my Blogcast links recently, but the summer heat messes with my consistency.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
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Or visit the Eye on Real Estate Website.
Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Monday, August 16, 2010, 4:14 PM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs and web sites. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[Yo! Chicago] The king of the $1 reduction? I’m pretty sure I’ve found the king of the $1 reduction, or a strong contender for the title at the very least…
[Atlantic/Megan McArdle] Why Pay off the House Early? A number of commenters have asked me why I want to pay off my house early, when I could simply be piling up that cash and putting it in treasury bonds….
[Kenneth Harney/WaPo] Home shoppers beware of click-fix digital makeovers Try to picture this real estate scenario — virtually. Like most shoppers searching for a home, you start on the Web, checking out listings and locations. You find a house that appears to be what you’re after, and you tap into the photos section of the listing to see the interior shots…
[Freakonomics/NYT] Dirty Data?Are e-mail attachments bad for the environment?…
I’ve neglecting posting my Blogcast links for the past few weeks, but hey, I was calling in from vacation.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
Listen to the most recent Eye on Real Estate podcast.
Subscribe to the free weekly Eye on Real Estate podcast.
Become a fan on Facebook.
Or visit the Eye on Real Estate Website.
Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Saturday, July 10, 2010, 4:25 PM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss several housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[CNBC/Realty Check] Rich are Defaulting on Loans at Higher Rate? Not So Fast… Diana Olick provides commentary on the New York Times article that didn’t make sense to me either. The article was about the higher RATE of default but gave the impression that there were more rich people going into default than everyone else and included the “rich don’t care” stereotypes. More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent, according to data compiled for The New York Times by the real estate analytics firm CoreLogic…“The rich are different: they are more ruthless,” said Sam Khater, CoreLogic’s senior economist. Good grief.
[APPRAISER ACTIVE] More on Fannie Mae Update to Appraisal Policies Francois Gregoire talks about the update and about his appearance in Ken Harney’s WaPo column on Fannie Mae’s new policies, including requirement for appraisers to have local expertise (SHOCKING). Francois lets consumers know about some of the shenanigans going on behind the scenes while borrowers are gnawing their fingernails, waiting for their mortgage loan to be underwritten and approved.
[WT/Watercooler] Accused spies fought Russians over home ownership Two of the eleven alleged agents of Moscow’s SVR intelligence service, living in Montclair New Jersey, apparently complained to their bosses at the Moscow Centre that they wanted to buy a house, so they could “do as the Romans do.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
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Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Saturday, June 26, 2010, 3:22 PM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss several housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[WSJ/Real Time Economics] Economists React to Financial Overhaul Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics writes: Many of the provisions in the bill would help to reduce the risk of an identical crisis developing… Unfortunately, as the old gag goes, if you’ve seen one financial crisis you’ve seen one financial crisis… The financial overhaul bill will not prevent the future mispricing of assets nor will it prevent speculators of all types borrowing money. Nevertheless, the bill should help to ensure that in future commercial banks aren’t the ones taking the speculative risks. The concern is they are protecting us from something that already happened when next time it will likely be different.
[The Mess That Greenspan Made] Punish the Strategic Defaulters! It’s not hard to understand the motivation behind Fannie Mae’s announcement that they intend to punish homeowners who walk away from their underwater properties…The new direction seems to run counter to the Obama administration’s efforts to reinvigorate the housing market.
[Minyanville] Why Weathermen Get It Right More Often Than Analysts No problem in judgment and decision making is more prevalent and more potentially catastrophic than overconfidence…Although both groups of experts (weatherman and financial analysts) revealed the overconfidence effect, this effect was significantly higher among financial analysts than among the weather forecasters.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
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Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Monday, June 21, 2010, 12:37 AM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss several housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[The Real Estate Bloggers] The Watergate Hotel Sold To European Investment Group For many of us, the term Watergate brings back bad memories of politicians gone bad. We forget that the scandal is named after the Watergate Complex, a group of 5 buildings near the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The hotel that was attached to the complex failed in 2007 but was purchased yesterday by a European real estate management company. They plan on returning the hotel to it’s former glory while keeping the option of turning some of the rooms into condos if the market will accept it.
[Straight Talk About Mortgages] Lending Rule #101 – Don’t Loan Money to People Who Can’t Pay It Back… Duh, it’s all about common sense. People who can’t pay it back shouldn’t get the loan in the first place…
[ST Paul Real Estate] Should I take the fridge? I got a call last week from a woman who is being foreclosed upon and there isn’t anything she can do about it at this point…She wanted to know if she had to leave her appliances behind when she left her home. She told me that they are fairly new and that she would like to keep them.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
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Subscribe to the free weekly Eye on Real Estate podcast.
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Or visit the Eye on Real Estate Website.
Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Monday, June 14, 2010, 10:40 AM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss several housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[City Room/NYT] Life Costs More Here, Unless You’re Hiring In both Boston and the San Francisco Bay area, the average worker receives more in wages and benefits than does the typical worker in the New York metropolitan area, according to figures released this week by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Boston and San Francisco are also the only big American cities where the cost of providing health care, year-end bonuses and other benefits is higher than it is in New York, the numbers show…
[Naked Capitalism] RealtyTrac: Most foreclosures have positive equity Of all of the foreclosures in the RealtyTrac online database, less than 50% have mortgages worth less than what is owed, said Rick Sharga, senior vice president at RealtyTrac, during a session at REO Expo, which concludes in Dallas Wednesday…
[Sienna Research Institute] 4.7% of New Yorkers Want To Buy, Most Since Lehman Tipping Point Ok, so this isn’t really a blog, but it pertains to the listening area and I covered it here on Matrix. 4.7% of consumers in the state plan to buy a home this year, compared with just 3.4% in April and 3% in May 2009. As good as it is, the latest reading is still far shy of the three-year high set in June 2007, when 5.6% of New Yorkers said they wanted to buy. Conversely, in January 2009, at the lowest ebb in the last three years, a mere 2.2% said they would buy a home.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
Listen to the most recent Eye on Real Estate podcast.
Subscribe to the free weekly Eye on Real Estate podcast.
Become a fan on Facebook.
Or visit the Eye on Real Estate Website.
Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Saturday, June 5, 2010, 9:59 PM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss several housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[Ezra Klein/WaPo] On jobs, watch the trend A lot of us have the tendency to look at each new month as a wholly separate slice of data and celebrate if it looks good and fret if it looks bad…So far this year, we have averaged about 100,000 new jobs each month with that rising to nearly 140,000 over the past three months. That is what many of us had expected when we talked about modest to moderate job growth this year.” In other words, “the trend is your friend.”
[Extraordinary Observations] Where the Smart People Live It’s becoming increasingly accepted that there is real economic value to bringing a lot of smart and entrepreneurial people together in the same place…The theory that there is economic value to having smart people together rests on the assumption that smart people collaborate with each other. Conclusion: smarter people live in areas with higher cost housing – but it sounds dumb, no?
[Curbed] New Identities Pitched for Troublesome Hudson Square Manhattan is famous for Manhattan neighborhood acronyms. SOHO, NOHO, TRIBECA, NOMAD, FIDI and MEPA How do you solve a problem like West Soho? Or is it the Lower West Side? Or Hudson Square? Whichever neighborhood name you choose, one thing’s clear: None are catchy enough to stick in the minds of tourists. Suggestions include North of the Holland Tunnel: “NoHoTu” and my favorite suggestion was Holland Tunnel Approach: “HoTunA”.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
Listen to the most recent Eye on Real Estate podcast.
Subscribe to the free weekly Eye on Real Estate podcast.
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Or visit the Eye on Real Estate Website.
Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Monday, May 31, 2010, 9:21 PM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “The BlogCast” where I discuss several housing related (sometimes a stretch) posts from some of my favorite blogs. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Last Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[Gothamist] Where’s The City’s Worst Cell Service? The best cell phone service can be found in the Lincoln Tunnel, which sees the fewest dropped calls. The worst spots include the Cross Bronx Expressway, along the river on the West Side Highway, Long Island City and Sunnyside in Queens, as well as part of the Upper East Side between 87th and 94th streets…
[Brick Underground] Hold that hotdog! 4 ways to rat-proof your patio before the other guests arrive A friend of ours lucky enough to live in a Chelsea apartment with a rear patio noticed she had company this spring: A gypsy contingent of rats was using her rear wall as a superhighway to the restaurant next door, occasionally detouring to her place for a refueling stop… This topic was timely given the weekend’s NYT/Real estate article on outdoor space.
[Credit Slips] How to Find the Owner of Your Mortgage Concerns continue about parties filing foreclosures when they do not own the note. Florida recently enacted a rules requiring plaintiffs in foreclosure to verify ownership of the note…
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
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Or visit the Eye on Real Estate Website.
Posted by Jonathan J. Miller -Monday, May 24, 2010, 10:03 PM
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For each week’s Eye on Real Estate Show on WOR NewsTalk Radio 710, we include a segment called “Jonathan Miller’s BlogCast” where I discuss several housing related posts from some of my favorite blogs. They cover topics that are current, funny or simply a “must read”.
Last Saturday’s BlogCast covered the following blog posts:
[The Curious Capitalist] The hidden changes in financial reform The Senate passed its financial reform bill. Huzzah! What did the Senate wind up with after three weeks of such intense lobbying and debate?…
[Trulia Blog] Trulia RealtyTrac Survey: American Attitudes Towards Foreclosure Today, Trulia.com and RealtyTrac released the latest results of an ongoing survey tracking home buyers’ attitudes towards foreclosures. The new online survey conducted on their behalf from May 10-12, 2010 by Harris Interactive® showed a notable decrease in consumers’ willingness to buy foreclosed properties compared to one year ago…
[WSJ/Developments Blog] U.S. Mortgage Delinquencies Appear to Level Off The number of American households behind on mortgage payments appears to be leveling off at a high level, a survey showed Wednesday… I also discussed the MBA confusion over the results in a great New York Times article.
If you missed this past Saturday’s show or any prior show, you can listen to the podcast at any time or subscribe to it for free via iTunes to always get the latest show delivered automatically to your computer or handheld device. My Blogcast is usually in the first hour of the show.
Listen to the most recent Eye on Real Estate podcast.
Subscribe to the free weekly Eye on Real Estate podcast.
Become a fan on Facebook.
Or visit the Eye on Real Estate Website.
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