by Constantine von HoffmanJuly 14, 2009
Legislation
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A bill in congress would suspend a set of rules designed to reform the relationship between mortgage brokers and appraisers. The Home Valuation Code of Conduct, which went into effect on May 1, prevents lenders from directly picking appraisers [...]
The plummeting Case-Shiller Index, which showcases the free fall that has become the housing market got me thinking about the bubble inflation during the preceding years and the role that house valuation played in this implosion. It also got me thinking about the difference between Case-Shiller price drops and actual price deflation for those [...]