Daily summary of real estate news, Memphis comments, and other interesting stuff – August 15th, 8:10pm

by Joe Spake on August 15, 2009

	Shared Calculated Risk: First-time Home Buyer Frenzy With a growing sense of urgency, first-time buyers are searching for homes, worried that time is running out on an $8,000 feder…
	Shared Calculated Risk: Hotel Owners Walking Away "… From San Diego to Dearborn, Mich., an increasing number of hotel owners in the U.S. market are simply walking away …Dist…
	Shared Perspective on the Eurobounce
	Published Memphisâ€™ new urban composting project It seems that with Memphis Public Works changes in trash pickup routes and schedules, we also have a new urban composting initi…
	Shared A Price That Works In A Market Headed South via the Housing Bubble Blog â€œâ€˜When your neighbors house is on fire you donâ€™t wait to call the fire department to help put out that fire, because the …
	Shared Fishing for the details takes all the fun out of real estate fish stories â€œSo some nice folks bought more home than they could afford during the housing boom. They couldnâ€™t make their payments, so …
	Published Dickinson I am certainly unqualified to write any kind of eulogy for Jim Dickinson.Â I only knew him from the point of view of a fan.Â …