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Stumpage is the price a private firm pays for the right to harvest timber from a given land base. It is paid to the current owner of the land. Historically, the price was determined on a basis of the number of trees harvested, or "per stump". Currently it is dictated by more standard measurements such as cubic metres, board feet, or tons. To ...
Asset price inflation has often been followed by an asset price crash. This can happen in a sudden and sometimes unexpected fall in the price of a particular asset class . Examples of asset price crashes include Dutch tulips in the 17th century, Japanese metropolitan real estate and stocks in the early 1990s, and internet stocks in 2001.
Real estate bubbles are invariably followed by severe price decreases (also known as a house price crash) that can result in many owners holding mortgages that exceed the value of their homes. [ 32 ] 11.1 million residential properties, or 23.1% of all U.S. homes, were in negative equity at December 31, 2010. [ 33 ]
Of agents polled in June by the National Association of Realtors, one in six reported having a deal fall apart the previous month before it closed escrow. Previously, the number was one in 25 ...
Last month, housing contract activity rose in all regions of the country except for the Northeast. The South saw the largest month-over-month increase, improving 5.2% from October and 8.5% from a ...
National home sales and prices both fell dramatically again in March 2007 according to NAR data, with sales down 13% to 482,000 from the peak of 554,000 in March 2006 and the national median price falling nearly 6% to $217,000 from the peak of $230,200 in July 2006. The plunge in existing-home sales was the steepest since 1989.
As real estate investors contend with high-interest debt and soaring prices, some are turning their attention to often-overlooked metro areas in search of higher returns. Nick Gerli, CEO of ...
Business journalist Kimberly Amadeo reports: "The first signs of decline in residential real estate occurred in 2006. Three years later, commercial real estate started feeling the effects. [36] Denice A. Gierach, a real estate attorney and CPA, wrote: most of the commercial real estate loans were good loans destroyed by a really bad economy.