http://mortgagenewsclips.com/2009/04/22/ira-artmans-sterling-slivers-no-news-is-no-news-banks-home-prices-and-home-sales-are-just-fine/ Mortgage Industry News Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:49:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://mortgagenewsclips.com/2009/04/22/ira-artmans-sterling-slivers-no-news-is-no-news-banks-home-prices-and-home-sales-are-just-fine/comment-page-1/#comment-26994 Ira Artman’s Sterling Slivers: The Smoking Gun – Subprime Underwriting and Prepayment Sun, 24 May 2009 22:54:30 +0000 http://mortgagenewsclips.com/2009/04/22/ira-artmans-sterling-slivers-no-news-is-no-news-banks-home-prices-and-home-sales-are-just-fine/#comment-26994 [...] previously observed (No News Is … No News) that there is a tight relation between home price appreciation and transactions - IF you measure [...] [...] previously observed (No News Is … No News) that there is a tight relation between home price appreciation and transactions – IF you measure [...]

]]> http://mortgagenewsclips.com/2009/04/22/ira-artmans-sterling-slivers-no-news-is-no-news-banks-home-prices-and-home-sales-are-just-fine/comment-page-1/#comment-24706 j Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:56:58 +0000 http://mortgagenewsclips.com/2009/04/22/ira-artmans-sterling-slivers-no-news-is-no-news-banks-home-prices-and-home-sales-are-just-fine/#comment-24706 The only thing I would comment is your mortgage interest rate comparison. Did you factor in the temporary nature of the loans (5 yr I/O usually) and the Option ARMs. If you are comparing apples to apples and not apples to oranges. Back in a normal real estate cycle, most loans were 30 yr fixed. The only thing I would comment is your mortgage interest rate comparison. Did you factor in the temporary nature of the loans (5 yr I/O usually) and the Option ARMs. If you are comparing apples to apples and not apples to oranges. Back in a normal real estate cycle, most loans were 30 yr fixed.

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