Falling house prices drive up mortgage fraud (AP)
news.yahoo.com 7/8/2009 — AP - Falling housing prices are driving up reports of mortgage fraud, with the FBI saying Tuesday that reported losses are up 83 percent last year and climbing even higher in 2009.

The Problem Is Still Falling House Prices
online.wsj.com 10/4/2008 — A successful plan to stabilize the U.S. economy and prevent a deep global recession must do more than buy back impaired debt from financial institutions. It must address the fundamental cause of the crisis: the downward spiral of house prices that ...

12 pct. are behind on mortgage or in foreclosure (AP)
news.yahoo.com 3/5/2009 — AP - An industry survey shows a record 5.4 million American homeowners with a mortgage, or nearly 12 percent, were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of last year.

US house prices
breakingviews.com 8/26/2009 — US house prices: robert.cyran@breakingviews.com Click here

A comment on House Prices
calculatedriskblog.com 8/26/2009 — I've seen story after story today suggesting the bottom is in for house prices. This isn't like 2005 when it was almost certain that prices would fall, and fall sharply. Now we are much closer to the bottom than to the top in prices (for some metrics, ...

12 pct. are behind on mortgage or in foreclosure (AP)
news.yahoo.com 5/28/2009 — AP - A record 12 percent of homeowners with a mortgage are behind on their payments or in foreclosure as the housing crisis spreads to borrowers with good credit. And the wave of foreclosures isn't expected to crest until the end of next year, the ...

Case-Shiller House Prices: Free Falling
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 12/8/2008 — S&P;/Case-Shiller released both the September monthly home price indices for 20 cities (with two composites), and the national house price index. The national index shows prices are off 16.6% from Q3 2007, and off 21% from the peak. I'll have more on ...

Global house prices fall for the first time | Money | The Guardian
guardian.co.uk 11/24/2008 — Global house prices fell for the first time on record over the past three months, underlining the extent of the downturn. Britain, which recorded falls of 4.6% during the quarter, was among the worst performers along with Latvia (6.2% down), Norway ...

House Prices and Interest Rates
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 12/4/2008 — There were two stories published today concerning house prices and interest rates. The first story came out this morning, and quoted a report from Global Insight suggesting "the housing market is now slightly undervalued". Please stop laughing ... And ...

Economic View - Why Home Prices May Keep Falling
nytimes.com 6/7/2009 — HOME prices in the United States have been falling for nearly three years, and the decline may well continue for some time. Even the federal government has projected price decreases through 2010. As a baseline, the stress tests recently performed on ...