When it comes to predicting the future of the commercial real estate market, quirkiness is certainly in the air these days. Even when some good news finally appears, a cloud invariably seems to be lurking overhead.

Here is the good news. MIT commercial property price index turns higher. The cloud foreshadowing this good news is that […]

The news is certainly not good these days. The beginning of 2008 has not been pretty. Perhaps we can find a niche’ or some sort of viable approach that gets us the credit needed to move forward and do deals. 
I always believe that information is power, so here it is … unedited and unfettered …. 
As reported by Rex Nutting, Washington […]

So, is it time yet for optimism in the residential housing market?
Thinking of buying a house? Looking to refinance your current mortgage? Is this the right time? These are the big questions of the day that everyone has been asking.
We at www.MylesTitle.com  and www.MarylandCommercialTitle.com sure hope so. Like us, you — the banker, builder, […]

Here is yet another very significant indicia of the declining real estate market, as of April 2008, as reported by Inman News:
There has been a 28 percent decline in revenue which helped push title insurer LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. to a $24.2 million first-quarter loss, despite ongoing cost-cutting measures that include the elimination of the equivalent […]

So, what is the state of the commercial real estate market. That tis the question?
Here is perhaps a glimmer of understanding — and some hard data – at the end of April 2008. Once again, we are trying desperately to read the tea leaves as to what the future holds ….
US commercial real estate prices crept […]

Recently in SeekingAlpha, the noted trend tracker of the financial markets, we see a variety of troubling signs that things are starting to snowball, in a negative direction. Are they real or are they just red herrings? This post is an attempt at an academic, objective overview. What do you think? How do you read […]

Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (otherwise know as “RESPA”) reform is back, and in a big way. On Friday, March 14, 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) published its proposed regulations to reform RESPA. 
Ironically, HUD partially titles its rule a “Proposed Rule to Simplify and Improve the Process of Obtaining […]

As reported in the Baltimore Business Journal today, Fannie Mae – the Washington, D.C.-based mortgage giant – is setting new rules about what mortgages it will buy.
These new underwriting guidelines will have a huge impact on the number of people who will get loans and the amount of business that flows through the real estate, banking, […]

As reported by Matt Carter of Inman News, the Bush administration on Monday, March 31, 2008 — in reaction to the financial and real estate markets collapse — has put forward a sweeping plan for reorganizing the regulation of the financial system that would include national licensing standards for mortgage brokers and the elimination of […]

Mike Larson, in Money and Markets, examines the real estate marketplace in the U.S. and how neither commercial nor residential is ready for a turn around. Mr. Larson takes a closer look at the U.S. real estate markets and determines the troubles that might lie ahead.

On the Residential Front: There is not really any […]