Residential Tuesday 2008.0715

Tue Jul 15 16:46:17 PDT 2008

Dear Designers, Builders, and Dwellers,

Residential Tuesday brings you top housing news and analysis weekly
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Barry Ritholtz slices and dices Barron's recent housing market optimism, 
but doesn't mince words, in this interesting, unusually well-illustrated
response...

	During the Bull Market of the '90s, I used to read Barron's
	for their hard edged, skeptical look at many of the excesses
	on Wall Street.

	During the past 5 years or so, that skepticism seems to be
	fading. Sure, Alan Abelson is still a curmudgeon, and
	Randall Forsyth is no cheerleader. The trader column is
	always worthwhile, and Santoli is usually interesting.
	Lately, the magazine seems to be drinking the same Kool-Aid
	my pal Larry Kudlow seems to enjoy so much.

	The latest evidence of this is the wrong headed cover story
	on Housing, declaring "Home Prices Are About to Bottom," and
	why "This Real-Estate Rout May Be Short-Lived." I expect
	this cover to suffer the same ignominious fate as the recent
	cover story on General Motors (Buy GM) will...

Barron's: Wrong on Housing - Seeking Alpha, 2008.0714
http://seekingalpha.com/article/84898-barron-s-wrong-on-housing

Residential Design and Building News
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Mind the Gap - Telegraph, 2008.0715
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/exclusions/supplements/accord/nosplit/buildgap.xml

In Banking Crisis, U.S. Steps Up - Christian Science Monitor, 2008.0715
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0715/p01s01-usec.html

Uncle Sam Adopts Fannie and Freddie - Barron's, 2008.0714
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB121601256890050373.html?mod=googlenews_barrons

John Lautner Retrospective at the Hammer Museum - Los Angeles Times, 2008.0714
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-lautner14-2008jul14,0,6453748.story

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and a Nightmare on Wall Street - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0714
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/14/stockmarkets.useconomy

Federal Reserve Tightens US Home Mortgage Lending - AFP, 2008.0714
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jGNuq2pHSp6u2FpKHM-QPCHxfF9Q

Borrowers Beware Loans That Are More Expensive Than They Seem - Telegraph, 2008.0714
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/07/14/ymsting114.xml

Australia Housing Dodges Worst of Global Wrec - Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0714
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7649891

See-through Phila. House Is N.Y. Museum 'Exhibit' - Philladelphia Inquirer, 2008.0714
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080714_Builders_look_past__and_through__convention.html

Coming Home to Profit - Warsaw Business Journal, 2008.0714
http://www.wbj.pl/realestatenews-41877-coming-home-to-profit.html

Modernist Marvel - The Times (UK), 2008.0713
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article4315867.ece

Home Builders Fall as FNM, FRE Turmoil Persists - CNN, 2008.0711
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200807111443DOWJONESDJONLINE000708_FORTUNE5.htm

"Credit Crunch" Stalls Work on Europea[euro](TM)S Tallest Residential Tower - Raising The Roof (blog), 2008.0711
http://blogs.iht.com/tribtalk/properties/roof/?p=452

Architects Rebuild Essex Home - Hartford Courant, 2008.0711
http://www.courant.com/features/home/hc-homeremodel0711.artjul11,0,764893.story

Karl Lagerfeld to Design Dubai Dwellings - Wall Street Journal, 2008.0710
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121562157420839603.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Federal Home Loan Bank IndyMac Exposure Seen Covered - Reuters, 2008.0709
http://www.reuters.com/article/gc03/idUSN0942791520080709

Wildfire: Oakland Hills, 17 Years Later - San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0709
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/09/HOUK11EI8L.DTL

Building, Buying and Living in a Fire Area - San Francisco Chronicle, 2008.0708
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/08/HOUK11EIA3.DTL

Norman Marcus, New York City Zoning Expert, Dies at 75 - New York Times, 2008.0707
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/nyregion/07marcus.html?scp=1&sq=construction+home+residential&st=nyt

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