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| | Southland Homes Sales Perk up: Market Now Being Carried by Distressed Sales. (This weekend I was listening to a real estate radio show that plays on FM radio here in Los Angeles while trying to...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record
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| | [NAR Forecast] You Can?t Make This Up (For as hard as the typical Realtor works to make a living, that goodwill is quickly undone when looking at the forecasts that come out of Lawrence Yun’s...)
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| | Housing Prices - acclerating price declines (Bank of America Chief Economist Mickey Levy analyzes this week's economic reports on housing prices, consumer confidence and wholesale prices. He predicts...)
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| | Home Values Continue to Slump (A random selection of quotes from economists. The pace of bad economic news is accelerating:
"Months of surging energy prices appear now to be trickling up the...)
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy (Helicopter Ben seems more than a bit dour on the prospects for the economy:"The outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months, and the downside risks to growth...)
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| | Trulia Attends Bloodhound Blog Unchained Conference (
I’ve been attending the Bloodhound Unchained Real estate Marketing conference in Phoenix, Arizona since yesterday. Greg and Brian have been...)
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| | Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes
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| | Lowe's Gets Hammered (
Big home improvement chain Lowe?s posted weak numbers today, a 19% decline in earnings, same store sales were down 8%. The stock dropped 2%. It was already 30% off its peak from...)
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| | BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Real Estate Website Makeover? (We're Unchained, but we're still wired to the net -- wirelessly. These posts are set up so that folks can make notes or comments in real...)
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| | Title Insurance: The Basics (
I have often found that many homebuyers lack a fundamental understanding about title insurance. While most past clients have admitted to briefly discussing the topic with...)
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| | Real Estate Investing In A Rental Village (Not too long ago I went to a neighboring town to check out an investment possibility for an investor I work with - rental subdivisions. The owner had built...)
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| | WaMu Cuts $6 Billion in HELOCs (Washington Mutual Inc. (WM: 10.04, -0.20%) has either suspended or cut down a total of $6 billion in available home equity lines of credit in the latest effort by a...)
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| | Dodd, Shelby Reach Deal on Housing Relief Package (Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban...)
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| | What goes up must come down. Vegas, Miami, Phoenix, San Diego and LA get some housing crash love (Funny how the five cities that got mentioned here the most over the past few years are now the five...)
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| | From Excess To Normal Affairs (The Uinta County Herald reports from Wyoming. “After 20 plus years of relatively little housing growth, it’s as if houses are sprouting up out of the reddish...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | REO Roundup
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | There Goes the Neighborhood (Who's doing more damage to Bressi Ranch? Super-Jenae or these taggers?thank you to reader Mike for the photo...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record
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| | WaMu Cuts Home Equity Credit + More Financing News (The Puget Sound Business Journal reported Friday on some more news from WaMu that is likely to affect local homeowners.
Washington Mutual Inc. has...)
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| | DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record
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| | Commercial Calamity? S&P/GRA Commercial Real Estate Index January 2008 (Like the MIT/CRE Property Index, Standard & Poor?s also tracks commercial real estate (CRE) prices for various commercial...)
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| | Mortgage brokers really care about old people. I bet they do reverse mortgages for free out of the goodness of their hearts ("Daddy, what do you do for a living?""Sorry son, I can't tell you,...)
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| | HousingPANIC Stupid Question of the Day (Why do you care more about the housing crash, who's gonna win Idol, and missing white girls on tropical islands than you do about hundreds of thousands of dead...)
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| | Housing Prices - acclerating price declines (Bank of America Chief Economist Mickey Levy analyzes this week's economic reports on housing prices, consumer confidence and wholesale prices. He predicts...)
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| | Home Values Continue to Slump (A random selection of quotes from economists. The pace of bad economic news is accelerating:
"Months of surging energy prices appear now to be trickling up the...)
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| | Outstanding On Our Soapbox: Bigger Is Not Always Better (In this week’s The Hall Monitor post in our other blog Soapbox called Bigger Is Not Always Better explores the idea that the multiple...)
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| | Fannie's New Down Payment Policy: Hoping Promise Comes True (Posted By:Diana OlickThe whole deal is part of Fannie?s ?Keys to Recovery? initiative, which is trying to promote ?not just home-buying,?...)
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| | UK house prices crash 19.2 percent ( One of my readers - Simon - asked a brilliant question. "How much have house prices already fallen in euro terms?" He correctly pointed out that since last...)
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| | Bernanke Bearish on Economy (Helicopter Ben seems more than a bit dour on the prospects for the economy:"The outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months, and the downside risks to growth...)
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| | Birth of a New Blog: Phoenix Real Estate Home (Call me crazy. Another new Phoenix real estate blog has been born.
PhoenixRealEstateHome.com is alive. Though woefully lacking in content, that will come...)
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| | Phoenix Unemployment Rates Fall - sort of (
There is an interesting East Valley Tribune article on the unemployment rates in Arizona and the Valley.
Phoenix maintains its (relatively) low unemployment...)
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| | What Constitutes a "Broker Specialist?" (As a resident (my comments are all in parenthesis) of a rather sizable condominium on the Upper West Side, I receive at least one or two broker...)
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| | Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes (Developer foreclosures - Bakersfield Californian:$74 million loan to Irvine-based developer SunCal Cos. for a major housing project in Shafter...)
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| | Sales up, Prices still down in California (
Has the giant and once-red hot California market hit bottom? I am reminded by the words of my former colleague who recently decided to put his house on the...)
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| | BloodhoundBlog Unchained: The Way of the Farmer? (We're Unchained, but we're still wired to the net -- wirelessly. These posts are set up so that folks can make notes or comments in real time.Listing...)
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| | BloodhoundBlog Unchained: The Way of the Hunter? (We're Unchained, but we're still wired to the net -- wirelessly. These posts are set up so that folks can make notes or comments in real time.Two...)
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| | Apartment Building Loans ? Should You Do It Yourself? (With the recent melt down of the sub prime mortgage market banks are tightening up their lending practices in the commercial sector of the finance...)
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| | Title Insurance: The Basics (
I have often found that many homebuyers lack a fundamental understanding about title insurance. While most past clients have admitted to briefly discussing the topic with...)
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| | Real Estate Investing In A Rental Village (Not too long ago I went to a neighboring town to check out an investment possibility for an investor I work with - rental subdivisions. The owner had built...)
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| | Don?t Look Now, But SoCal Home Sales Surged in April (Add some fuel to the “worst is already behind us” crowd’s fire, because April was the best month the battered Southern California...)
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| | Bush: No Bail Outs, But Quiet on Housing Package (Ahead of the scheduled markup of a housing package by the Senate Banking Committee this Tuesday, President Bush reiterated his stance that he would...)
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| | Current GSE Capital Levels May Not Match Risk, Says OFHEO?s Lockhart (Both Fannie Mae (FNM: 28.95, -3.14%) and Freddie Mac (FRE: 27.01, +0.15%) may be undercapitalized relative to the market risk they...)
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| | Price Declines Spreading to California?s Luxury Home Market (Luxury home prices in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco all posted modest declines in the first quarter of 2008, as banks pulled back...)
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| | Mortgage Losses Stuck on Some Balance Sheets: Report (Some market participants are playing a high-stakes game of poker with their mortgage-related losses, choosing to keep losses on their balance sheet...)
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| | CONFIDENCE WILL NOT BE RESTORED WITHOUT TRANSPARENCY! WHAT MARKET PARTICIPANT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD TRUST BEAR STEARNS? (WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve said Friday that it has voted to endorse an...)
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| | Feldstein: Bad Recession to come (with inflation). (The United States has entered a recession that could be "substantially more severe" than recent ones, former National Bureau of Economic Research...)
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| | DQNews: Southland home sales highest in eight months (That's the hope-filled headline according to DQNews. Digging deeper into the article, though, we learn that this was the weakest April since...)
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| | California Foreclosures Forcing Wells Fargo To Boost Reserves (While this may unnerve some folks, I take it as a very healthy sign. Well Fargo is boosting it’s reserves to deal with the...)
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| | Fear Mongering With a Smile (The final April sales data from DataQuick has been late on arrival. However, we are anticipating an uptick in sales. REALTORS® everywhere are already out there...)
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| | As homes foreclose in U.S., squatters move in (Brockton used as example) (Read link for details.
Discuss at Boston...)
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| | Seattle Bubble Fundraising Drive (
As you may or may not know, Seattle Bubble is one of a handful of projects that now make up my full-time job. Since dedicating a larger amount of time to improve and...)
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| | Poll: Realistically, would you prefer to live? (Please vote in this poll using the sidebar.
This poll will be active and displayed on the sidebar through...)
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| | Earthquake proof house in Colma - just $399k! (360 2nd AVE Colma, CA 94014
Price: $399,000
Buy with Redfin and Save $7,980*
Beds: 1
Baths: 1
Sq. Ft.: 600
$/Sq. Ft.: $665
Lot Size: ...)
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| | You Are More In Debt Than You Think (So you don’t use credit cards, own your house free and clear and the car is paid off? You might be thinking you don’t have much in the way of...)
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| | The Free Housing Puts Just Became Lower Strike Housing Calls?
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| | Follow The Leader: Index of Leading Economic Indicators April 2008 (Today?s results of the Conference Board?s Index of Leading Economic Indicators continues to indicate troubled times ahead increasing...)
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| | Is This Supposed To Be A Good Investment' (Some housing bubble news from Wall Street and Washington. CNN Money, “Demand |