Real Estate & WaMu
The hottest news nowadays is the worsening financial crisis. In a period of less than a month, we’ve witnessed the falling fortunes of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG, and now comes Washington Mutual, whose banking assets were acquired by JPMorgan Chase, after it was seized by federal regulators. Check out more of the story here.
The current financial crisis is even more relevant for the real estate market and its analysts, since most of it is said to be precipitated by the fall of the housing market. Real estate is also majorly affected, as housing prices fall and would-be homeowners find it harder and harder to get a mortgage.
This shouldn’t stop hopeful buyers from investing in their own homes though, and people with mortgages shouldn’t use this as an excuse to stop paying their mortgage. Hopefully, we’ll be able to ride out this wave with minimal damage.