Buying an apartment or a house in the United States is no longer out of reach for many foreigners.

Attracted by a weaker dollar and a wide array of opportunities, more and more Europeans are investing in Real Estate. Florida is one of their favorite destinations.

A new reports says that homes in the Inland Empire are most likely to lose value.

Massachusetts has some new tools to fight the foreclosure crisis. Twenty million, to be exact.

The state has just activated a 20 million dollar loan fund for community groups to buy foreclosed homes before they become neighborhood wrecking eyesores and worse.

Foreclosures are devastating both for individual homeowners and their families and also to communities.

The 20 million dollar fund will provide loans of 250 thousand to a million dollars to community groups.
That’s expected to buy 250 to 500 foreclosed homes and apartments, with the Boston, Brockton, Chelsea, Lawrence, New Bedford, Springfield, and Worcester areas.

Notably, it doesn’t use any state money. 17 million comes from private lenders in the Massachusetts housing investment corporation, 2 million from the Boston foundation, and 1 million from the Hyams foundation in Chelsea.

Critics are blaming Alan Greenspan for today’s financial crisis, but now the former Federal Reserve chief is fighting back.

Greenspan sets the record straight in an exclusive interview.

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Sales of new homes plunged last month to the lowest level in 16 and a half years.

For release at 2:00 p.m. EDT

The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee - FOMC on Tuesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on March 18, 2008, and of the conference call held on March 10, 2008.

The minutes for each regularly scheduled meeting of the Committee ordinarily are made available three weeks after the day of the policy decision and subsequently are published in the Board’s Annual Report. The description of economic and financial conditions contained in these minutes is based solely on the information that was available to the Committee at the time of the meeting.

The FOMC minutes can be viewed on the Board’s website at
http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm#calendars.

We did find the housing inventory numbers increased, which is key. We are looking at the 10.3 month supply compared to 9.7 in December. In January, we were up in terms of inventory, that seems to be a problem. We are not anywhere close to that, for existing home prices, is not good at all and it will drag on.

New home prices is a different picture because the home builders are biting the bullet here. The leading home price index suggests that, in effect, although that may be a problem, there is an interesting optic we see at the end that makes us wonder whether new home practices might actually stabilize as wee see within the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index report.

Debate over Barack Obama’s $10 Billion housing bailout plan.

Did you know that you, the tax payer, will foot the bill?

On December 20, 2007, the Federal Reserve will offer $20 billion in 35-day credit through its Term Auction Facility. Additional information regarding the auction is listed below; the auction will be conducted as specified in this Announcement, Regulation A, and the terms and conditions of the Term Auction Facility (www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/taf.htm).

Description of Offering and Auction Parameters

Offering Amount:	$20 billion
Term:	35-day loan
Bid Submission Date:	December 20, 2007
Opening Time:	10 a.m. EST
Closing Time:	1 p.m. EST
Notification Date:	December 21, 2007
Settlement Date:	December 27, 2007
Maturity Date:	January 31, 2008
Minimum Bid Amount (per bid):	$10 million
Bid Increment	$100,000
Maximum Bid Amount (per institution):	$2 billion (10% of Offering Amount)
Minimum Bid Rate:	4.15 percent
Incremental Bid Rate:	0.001 percent
Minimum Award:	$10,000
Maximum Award:	$2 billion (10% of Offering Amount)

Submission of Bids
Participants must submit bids by phone to their local Reserve Bank between the Opening Time and Closing Time on the Bid Submission Date.

Notification
Summary auction results will be published on the website of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/taf.htm) at approximately 10:00 a.m. EST on the Notification Date. Between 10:00 a.m. and noon EST on the Notification Date, Reserve Banks will notify individual institutions in their districts that have submitted winning bids of their awards. Participants have until 3:00 p.m. EST on the Notification Date to inform their local Reserve Bank of any error.

Rounding Convention
Pro rata awards will be rounded to multiples of $10,000. Normal rounding convention will be used, except that awards under $10,000 will be rounded to $10,000.

2007 Monetary Policy Releases