{"id":174584,"date":"2010-01-13T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/12-reasons-not-to-buy-a-home-today-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-13T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:22:00","slug":"12-charts-you-must-see-before-you-even-think-about-buying-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/174584","title":{"rendered":"12 Charts You MUST See Before You Even Think About Buying A Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding: 15px 15px 15px 0;\">\n<script src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/ds\/badge2.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\nhttp:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/12-reasons-not-to-buy-a-home-today-2010-1\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/12-reasons-not-to-buy-a-home-today-2010-1\/houses-just-keep-getting-more-affordable-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b4c973900000000006dd6cf\" border=\"0\" alt=\"new observations charts\" \/><\/a>A casual observer might think, after hearing about foreclosures and oversupply for close to two years, that it was a great time to buy a home.<\/p>\n<p>But unless you are a first-time buyer or other demographic specifically benefiting from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/8-or-more-government-programs-are-distorting-home-prices-2009-12\">many government programs distorting home prices<\/a>, the reality is that home prices are still falling from the massive bubble.<\/p>\n<p>Housing blog  <a href=\"http:\/\/newobservations.net\/\">New Observations<\/a> collected twelve charts that illustrate <a href=\"http:\/\/newobservations.net\/propertys-value\/\">the scary trends facing homebuyers today<\/a>. <em>(If you still aren&#8217;t discouraged from buying a home, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/newobservations.net\/contact-information\/\">contacting the editor<\/a> of New Observations, who, strangely enough, is also the CEO of a mortgage company.)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/12-reasons-not-to-buy-a-home-today-2010-1\/houses-just-keep-getting-more-affordable-1\">See The 12 Reasons Not To Buy A Home Today &#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/12-reasons-not-to-buy-a-home-today-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/fannie-mae-delinquencies-increase-sharply-october-2009-12\">Fannie Mae: Delinquencies Increase Sharply in October<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/imf-the-riskiest-mortgage-lenders-contributed-the-most-to-lobbyists-2009-12\">IMF: The Riskiest Mortgage Lenders Contributed The Most To Lobbyists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/homeowners-with-underwater-mortgages-may-be-too-ignorant-to-be-ruthless-2010-1\">Homeowners With Underwater Mortgages May Be Too Ignorant To Be Ruthless<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/2p9k6NouiGU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A casual observer might think, after hearing about foreclosures and oversupply for close to two years, that it was a great time to buy a home. But unless you are a first-time buyer or other demographic specifically benefiting from the many government programs distorting home prices, the reality is that home prices are still falling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}