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• Housing Futures Let Investors, or Homeowners, Hedge Their Bets, but They Attract Little Action

  Your house may be special to you, but to a futures trader dealing in housing contracts, it's just another data point. Posted Nov 21 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, New York, Action, Bethesda, Housing, Miami, San Francisco, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Las Vegas, Boston, but, Los Angeles, Chicago, or, Denver, San Diego, Reston, Their, Futures, Manassas, They, Little, Hedge, CME Group Inc., Let, Investors,, Xerox Corporation, IndexUniverse.com, Bets,, Attract, Marjorie Fox, Matt Hougan, Homeowners,, Michael Shore, Fritz Siebel

• Consumer Prices, Housing Starts Fall at Record Pace

  Consumer prices and housing starts declined in October at rates not seen since the 1940s and 1950s, signs of a collapse in household spending that threatens to deepen and lengthen any economic downturn. Posted Nov 19 2008, 04:58 AM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Housing, at, Fall, Consumer, Record, Pace, Prices,, Starts

• Stocks Fall Despite Action on Housing

  Fresh moves by the government to limit home foreclosures lifted the market in mid-afternoon trading yesterday, but the federal action was not enough to stave off a second day of losses. Posted Nov 11 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Hong Kong, United States, Action, Housing, on, United Kingdom, Stocks, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., General Motors Corporation, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Germany, Japan, Fall, Renae Merle, Detroit, Reston, Starbucks Corporation, American Express Company, France, Toll Brothers Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., Despite, Sterne, Agee & Leach Inc., Sean Ryan, Christopher Versace

• Dow Falls 127 Points as Investors Digest Weak Housing Data

  Wall Street fell back into negative territory at the end of a volatile week after a series of negative economic indicators reinforced concerns that the country is headed into a recession. Posted Oct 17 2008, 09:44 AM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, As, Weak, Data, Dow, Falls, Investors, Points, Digest, 127

• Markets Fluctuate as Investors Digest Weak Housing Data

  Stocks fell dramatically but then regained some ground in morning trading today despite a new government report that found home construction has sunk to its slowest pace in more than 15 years. Posted Oct 17 2008, 06:09 AM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, Fluctuate, Markets, As, Weak, Data, Investors, Digest

• Housing Starts Fall Sharply

  Housing starts and permits for new home construction fell sharply again in September, with requests for new building permits falling to levels not seen since the recession of the early 1980s. Posted Oct 17 2008, 02:49 AM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, Fall, Sharply, Starts

• What Housing Collapse?

  It was all foreclosures, falling home prices and the credit crunch during the past couple months. Pretty dreary times for mortgage banks and lenders. So which way were their stocks going? Perhaps it was the expectation of a government bailout that lifted those shares 55 percent from July 15 to Sept.... Posted Sep 27 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, What, Collapse?

• Short Reach for Md. Housing Aid

  In the year since Maryland launched a series of foreclosure prevention programs, the state has helped just 88 troubled borrowers get into new loans or keep up with their payments, at a cost of about $17.9 million. Posted Sep 23 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Wall Street, New York, Maryland, Montgomery County (Maryland), Housing, Prince George's County, for, Aid, Columbia (Maryland), U.S. Department of the Treasury, Montgomery, Md., Short, Raymond A. Skinner, Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, Center on the States, Corridor Mortgage Group, Billy Cogman, Reach, Mark Westcott

• Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Holds Hearing on U.S. Credit Markets

  SPEAKERS: SEN. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, D-CONN. CHAIRMAN SEN. TIM JOHNSON, D-S.D. SEN. JACK REED, D-R.I. SEN. CHARLES E. SCHUMER, D-N.Y. SEN. EVAN BAYH, D-IND. SEN. THOMAS R. CARPER, D-DEL. SEN. ROBERT MENENDEZ, D-N.J. SEN. DANIEL K. AKAKA, D-HAWAII SEN. SHERROD BROWN, D-OHIO SEN. BOB CASEY, D-PA. S... Posted Sep 23 2008, 07:38 AM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, on, U.S., Markets, and, Hearing, Credit, Senate, holds, Urban, Committee, Affairs, Banking,

• Before You Take That New Housing Credit . . .

  Part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 authorizes a tax credit of up to $7,500 for qualified first-time home buyers. Based on the questions I'm getting from readers, many people are ready to jump on this money like Scooby-Doo panting after Scooby Snacks. Posted Aug 16 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, New, National Public Radio Inc., Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post Company, That, You, ., Internal Revenue Service, Credit, Take, Before, Eric Smith, Scooby Doo

• Bush Signs Massive Housing Relief Bill

  President Bush this morning signed into law the most sweeping housing legislation in decades, aimed at calming rocky financial markets and giving mortgage relief to up to 400,000 homeowners. Posted Jul 30 2008, 03:50 AM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, Bush, Bill, Relief, Signs, Massive

• Housing Bill Won't 'Perform Miracles'

  Even as a huge bipartisan majority in the Senate voted yesterday to send a sprawling housing bill to the White House, economists, consumer advocates and other analysts said the package of programs for struggling homeowners and shaken mortgage lenders is unlikely to relieve the foreclosure crisis ... Posted Jul 26 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Wall Street, United States, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Henry M. Paulson, Housing, The White House, George W. Bush, RealtyTrac Inc., Bill, Mortgage Bankers Association, John McCain, U.S. Republican Party, Barack Obama, Los Angeles Times, Jared Bernstein, Economy.com Inc., Economic Policy Institute, Freddie Mac Holdings, Fannie Mae, Christopher Dodd, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, Barney Frank, Federal Housing Administration, National Consumer Law Center, Alys Cohen, Mark Zandi, Won't, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Steve O'Connor, Jim DeMint, Kellogg School of Management, 'Perform, Miracles', Deborah Lucas

• Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Housing Bill

  In a rare weekend session, the Senate today ended months of legislative wrangling and gave final approval to a sprawling housing bill that seeks to halt the steepest slide in home prices in a generation, rescue hundreds of thousands of families from foreclosure and restore confidence in the natio... Posted Jul 26 2008, 05:05 AM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, Bill, Approves, Senate, Overwhelmingly

• Congress approves housing market rescue bill

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency financing to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, creating a new regulator for the mortgage titans and setting up a $300 billion fund to help troubled homeowners. Posted Jul 26 2008, 04:19 AM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Housing, Market, Rescue, Bill, Approves, Congress

• Grim Housing Data Stifle Market Rally

  A days-long rally in the U.S. stock market came to an abrupt halt yesterday after the release of disappointing home sales and joblessness figures reignited worries about the economy, particularly financial services. Posted Jul 24 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: United States, Housing, Bank of America Corporation, Market, Florida, New Jersey, George W. Bush, California, U.S. Census Bureau, Standard & Poor's, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Citigroup Inc., Bill Gross, Data, Freddie Mac Holdings, Rally, Fannie Mae, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Washington Mutual Inc., National Association of REALTORS, Michael Larson, Joseph Brusuelas, Grim, Doug Roberts, Channel Capital Research Institute LLC, Merk Investments, Stifle, Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC