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The Great Housing Bubble Media Center - Oct 9th, 2008
Here you will find links to the author’s media appearances, a sample book review, sample media blubs, and all press releases related to The Great Housing Bubble.
Media Appearances
The author of The Great Housing Bubble, Lawrence Roberts, is committed to educating the public on the issues related to housing, and in particular, those responsible for inflating the housing bubble. He is available to bloggers, reporters, radio and TV hosts and anyone else in the media writing stories related to housing. He can be contacted at:
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Higher
Unemployment, More Foreclosures and Tightening Credit Deflate Housing Bubble
Lawrence
Roberts, author of The Great Housing Bubble, lists a number of indirect
influences on the housing bubble that are actively working to drive prices
lower. These include higher unemployment, more foreclosures, and tightening
credit.
New
Book, The Great Housing Bubble, Projects Future House Prices Using Multiple
Proven Methodologies
Authored by real
estate insider, Lawrence Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble Cassandra due
to his prediction of the housing price crash, the book, The Great Housing
Bubble, projects future house prices using historic measures of
price-to-income, price-to-rent, and price action. All indicators point to a
significant decline that does not bottom until 2011.
New
Book Discusses Behavioral Finance, Efficient Markets and Psychological Stages of
Housing Bubbles
In the new book,
The Great Housing Bubble, Lawrence Roberts discusses the differences between
behavioral finance theory, efficient markets theory and outlines the
psychological stages of housing bubbles.
New
Book Describes How People Flipped and Traded Houses and Used Mortgages as
Option Contracts
The Great
Housing Bubble, authored by real estate insider and housing bubble Cassandra,
Lawrence Roberts, describes how ordinary people got caught up in the financial
mania and began flipping houses and using mortgages like options contracts. This
activity cost lenders billions of dollars and imperiled the entire financial
system.
New
Book Explains the Value of Raw Land and Clarifies Why Builders Lost When the
Housing Bubble Burst
Lawrence
Roberts, considered the Housing Bubble Cassandra, in his new book, The Great
Housing Bubble, calculates raw land value and explains how the housing bust
caused major homebuilders to take billions of dollars in impairment charges
against their land holdings.
New
Book Proposes National Association of Realtors Regulation and Outlines Common
Realtor Falsehoods
Authored
by real estate insider, Lawrence Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble
Cassandra due to his prediction of the housing price crash, the book, The Great
Housing Bubble, calls for National Association of Realtors regulation through
the Securities and Exchange Commission. The book also lists the common realtor
falsehoods used to induce buyers to overpay for property.
New
Book, The Great Housing Bubble, Chronicles The Largest Financial Mania Of
Modern Times
Authored by real
estate insider, Lawrence Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble Cassandra due
to his prediction of the housing price crash, the book, The Great Housing
Bubble, chronicles the financial mania that gripped the US housing market.
New
Book Examines Why Academics Missed The Great Housing Bubble And What Mistakes
Were Made
Lawrence
Roberts, author of The Great Housing Bubble, documents many instances in the
academic literature where scholars completely missed the housing bubble. He
further speculates on why most academics did not see the housing bubble and did
not warn the public to its perils.
Changing
Lending Practices and Incentives Lowered Standards and Inflated The Great
Housing Bubble
Authored by real
estate insider, Lawrence Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble Cassandra due
to his prediction of the housing price crash, the book, The Great Housing
Bubble, carefully documents how a shift in lender practices and incentives
caused a great deal of capital to flow into residential mortgages and inflated
the housing bubble.
Lawrence
Roberts New Book Explains the New Loan Programs That Inflated the Great Housing
Bubble
According to
Lawrence Roberts, the Housing Bubble Cassandra, negative amortization loans
like the Option ARM were the primary mechanism that inflated the housing
bubble. The new book, The Great Housing Bubble, explains how “exotic” loan
programs work.
“The
Great Housing Bubble Was a Credit Bubble,” Opines Lawrence Roberts in New Book
Lawrence
Roberts, considered the Housing Bubble Cassandra, in his new book, The Great
Housing Bubble, demonstrates that the housing bubble was a credit bubble fueled
by greed. He identifies the root causes of the credit bubble, outlines the
sequence of events causing the rise and fall in prices, and issues a stern
warning about government intervention in the markets.
Housing
Bubble Book Exposes Cultural Pathology: Appreciation Is Income, Credit Is
Saving, Debt is Wealth
In the new book,
The Great Housing Bubble, Lawrence Roberts exposes the deep cultural pathologies
spawned by the housing bubble: appreciation is income, credit is saving, and debt
is wealth. These beliefs contributed to the unsustainable Ponzi Scheme that
inflated home prices.
New
Book, The Great Housing Bubble, Calculates Real Estate Fundamental Value and
Investment Premium
The Great
Housing Bubble, authored by real estate insider and housing bubble Cassandra,
Lawrence Roberts, calculates the fundamental value of residential real estate
and the investment premium and illustrates the difference between investors and
speculators.
New
Book Discusses Foreclosure, Short-Sale, Lender Recourse, and Tax Implications
to Sell a Home in Declining Market
Lawrence
Roberts, considered the Housing Bubble Cassandra, in his new book, The Great
Housing Bubble, details the implications of a foreclosure or a short-sale and
the implications for taxation and lender recourse. Sellers who owe more than
their house is worth face a myriad of issues.
In
New Book, The Great Housing Bubble, Lawrence Roberts Offers Buyers Advice On
Real Estate Negotiation During A Price Decline.
According to
Lawrence Roberts, the Housing Bubble Cassandra, the dynamics of real estate
negotiation has completely changed over the last two years. In his book, The
Great Housing Bubble, he provides specific recommendations to buyers for taking
advantage of their new power.
Housing
Bubble Cassandra, Lawrence Roberts, Outlines Future Housing Bubble Prevention
in New Book
Authored
by real estate insider, Lawrence Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble
Cassandra due to his prediction of the housing price crash, the book, The Great
Housing Bubble, outlines proposals for future housing bubble prevention. The
book is among first to examine the causes of the collapse of U.S. home values.
In
New Book Housing Bubble Cassandra, Lawrence Roberts, Proposes National
Association of Realtors Regulation
Authored
by real estate insider, Lawrence Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble
Cassandra due to his prediction of the housing price crash, the book, The Great
Housing Bubble, calls for National Association of Realtors regulation through
the Securities and Exchange Commission. The book is among first to examine the
causes of the collapse of U.S. home values.
All
Housing Bailout Proposals Are Doomed to Fail, Fraught with Moral Hazard, and
Intended Merely to Encourage Homeowner Denial Says Housing Bubble Cassandra,
Lawrence Roberts, in New Book.
Lawrence
Roberts, considered the Housing Bubble Cassandra, in his new book, The Great
Housing Bubble, lays out the case that all housing bailout proposals will fail.
He contends these programs have a built-in moral hazard guaranteed to promote
foolish borrower behavior, and that the real purpose of these proposals is to
promote homeowner denial to keep them enslaved to their lenders.
Housing
Bubble Cassandra Proposes National Association of Realtors Regulation and
Outlines Future Housing Bubble Prevention in New Book
Authored
by real estate insider, Lawrence Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble
Cassandra due to his prediction of the housing price crash, the book, The Great
Housing Bubble, calls for National Association of Realtors regulation through
the Securities and Exchange Commission. The book also outlines proposals for
future housing bubble prevention, and it is among first to examine the causes
of the collapse of U.S. home values.
Housing
Bubble Cassandra, Lawrence Roberts, New Book Explains The Housing Bubble: Why
Did House Prices Fall?
The
book, The Great Housing Bubble, authored by real estate insider, Lawrence
Roberts, who is considered a housing bubble Cassandra due to his prediction of
the housing price crash, is among first to examine the causes of the collapse
of U.S. home values.
Monterey
Cypress Publishing Contracts with CreateSpace, Lightning Source, and Ingram
Distribution for Lawrence Roberts’s Book, “The Great Housing Bubble”
Monterey
Cypress Publishing has signed a non-exclusive agreement to print The Great
Housing Bubble with CreateSpace and Lightning Source. The company has also
signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Ingram. The book is now
available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble online, and in bookstores.
Monterey
Cypress Publishing Signs Author, Lawrence Roberts, and Publishes Book, “The
Great Housing Bubble”
Monterey Cypress Publishing, a small press
specializing in real estate and personal finance related books, audio books,
and video presentations, has signed an exclusive agreement to publish the works
of Lawrence Roberts. His first book, The Great Housing Bubble, details the
causes of this historic crisis.
