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May 20, 2008

    
therealestatebloggers


  Property Rights The Key To Space Exploration? (I read an interesting article this weekend in the Boston Globe about space exploration. Why space exploration you ask? Well it all comes down to property...)

    
bubbletracking


  April DataQuick Numbers (Here's the latest DQ numbers, note the only positive year over year sales is Riverside County. Why Riverside? Well, if you look at Phoenix and Vegas, both markets also showed...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
sacramentolanding


  DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record

    
bostonbubble


  Litany of woes driving many residents out of Massachusetts (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Surf's up, prices down - Nantucket's luxury home owners offer deals (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
seattlebubble


  San Diego County Now Cheaper than King (I thought it would be fun to check back in with an update on the San Diego / King County home price comparison I made back in March. As of the latest...)

    
njrereport


  Defying the downturn (From the Wall Street Journal: Where Home Prices Are Holding Up By JEFF D. OPDYKE May 20, 2008; Page D1 Downtown: It’s been among the safest places to hide from the housing...)

    
njrereport


  Abusing farmland assessment (From the APP: Pennacchio: Block “gentlemen farmers” from property tax break U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Pennacchio Monday criticized Republican opponent Dick...)

    
paper-money


  The Almost Daily 2˘ - Moral Haphazard (If you Google around the web, especially the Federal Reserve?s site, you can find endless definitions and references as well as debate and discussion related to...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
matrix


  [Premature Lecture] Agencies Go Full Court Press On Self-reflection (It seems a bit early to start reflecting on the lessons learned from the housing/mortgage problems we face, since, well, we still...)

    
ukhousebubble


  We are impeded (Adam Sandler, chairman of Nationalized Rock, had a warning to UK taxpayers. He said "If house prices were to decline 5, 10, or 15 percent, that would seriously impede the fulfilling...)

    
ukhousebubble


  Rents - are they increasing by 14 percent or 3.9 percent? (How fast are rents increasing right now?According to Paragon, rents are increasing by 14 percent a year. It is a shocking rate of growth. If...)

    
ocpredicts


  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...)

    
bakersfieldbubble


  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...)

    
bloodhoundrealty


  BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Brian Brady on The Way of the Hunter (Brian addresses the art and science of Web 2.0 ubiquity. There are several other clips from this session on the BloodhoundBlog...)

    
bloodhoundrealty


  Unchained voices: Video clips from the conference and after-hours events: ?It?s been like learning more than my brain can fit? (BloodhoundBlog's Geno Petro: Don Reedy talking about his new...)

    
bloodhoundrealty


  BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Greg Swann on The Unchained Epiphany (This talk is a further elaboration on a post I wrote in April: There are several other clips from this session on the BloodhoundBlog...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
themortgagereports


  Proof: Mortgage Rates Are "Expiring" Within Hours (Since the Fed made its emergency rate cut in January 2008, we've talked a lot of mortgage rate volatility. Some days up, some days down, most days...)

    
thehousingbubbleblog


  Naive Investors Jumped At A Chance To Make Easy Money (The Boston Globe reports from Massachusetts. “Only about 64 percent of those born in Massachusetts still live in the state, according to a...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)

    
bubbleinfo


  April Stats, SoCal

    
sbbeachbubble


  L.A. Times: At the luxury end, home prices are falling ( The publication of this piece by Peter Y. Hong on May 20 is a milestone in our path to the resolution of the housing bubble. We have been...)

    
irvinehousingblog


  We Will Spend You ( We Will Rock You -- Queen As far as HELOC abusers go, today's sellers are just like boys playing in the street. They made a big noise, tried to take on...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  Paid Foreclosure Tour Starts In Atlanta (Foreclosure tours have been popping up around the country and into the news, but a new one in Atlanta has an interesting twist. Instead of the real estate agent...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
sacramentolanding


  DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record

    
bostonbubble


  Low-Income Renters to Pay for Housing Bailout (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
bostonbubble


  Frank blames Fed, Greenspan for subprime woes (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
burbed


  The beauty of America continues in Sunnyvale (04 America Ave, Sunnyvale $569,900 * Status: Active * Bedroom: 2 * Bathroom: 1 * Year Built: 1940 * Lot Size: 3049 * Square Footage: 754 * List Date:...)

    
housingdoom


  Getting Paid To Walk Away (It apparently isn’t just homeowners walking away from their homes.  Now squatters are moving into foreclosure properties- and making a quick buck while they are at...)

    
thehousingbubbleblog


  Bits Bucket And Craigslist Finds For May 20, 2008. (Please post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
ocpredicts


  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...)

    
bakersfieldbubble


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
housingpanic


  HousingPANIC Stupid Question of the Day (What was the stupidest thing you saw a friend, co-worker or family member do during the housing...)

    
housingpanic


  Here's Paul Volcker, a giant of a man compared to Ben Bernanke, on the housing crash and mortgage meltdown, and what the Fed's role SHOULD be (The damage that Bernanke has inflicted upon the United...)

    
housingpanic


  HousingPANIC Classic Quote of the Day ("The stuff I did is technically mortgage fraud, but it's not officially called that until someone prosecutes me and proves that that is indeed mortgage fraud"-...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)


May 19, 2008

    
drhousingbubble


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
sacramentolanding


  DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record

    
matrix


  [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...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
ocpredicts


  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...)

    
truliablog


  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...)

    
bakersfieldbubble


  Foreclosures everywhere! County reviewing 40,000 homes

    
businessweek


  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...)

    
bloodhoundrealty


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
housingwire


  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...)

    
housingwire


  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...)

    
housingpanic


  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...)

    
thehousingbubbleblog


  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...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)

    
bubbleinfo


  REO Roundup

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
sacramentolanding


  DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record

    
seattlebubble


  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...)

    
sacramentolanding


  DataQuick: Sacramento Home Sales Up YoY as Price Decline Hits New Record

    
paper-money


  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...)

    
housingpanic


  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,...)

    
housingpanic


  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...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
weblog-housing


  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...)

    
matrix


  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...)

    
realty-check


  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,?...)

    
ukhousebubble


  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...)

    
ocpredicts


  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...)

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  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...)

    
phoenixrealestateguy


  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...)

    
truegotham


  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...)

    
bakersfieldbubble


  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...)

    
businessweek


  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...)

    
bloodhoundrealty


  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...)

    
bloodhoundrealty


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
biggerpockets


  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...)

    
housingwire


  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...)

    
housingwire


  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...)

    
housingwire


  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...)

    
housingwire


  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...)

    
housingwire


  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...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)

    
njhousingbubble


  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...)

    
sbbeachbubble


  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...)

    
therealestatebloggers


  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...)

    
bubbletracking


  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...)

    
bostonbubble


  As homes foreclose in U.S., squatters move in (Brockton used as example) (Read link for details. Discuss at Boston...)

    
seattlebubble


  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...)

    
seattlebubble


  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...)

    
burbed


  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: ...)

    
housingdoom


  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...)

    
housingderivatives


  The Free Housing Puts Just Became Lower Strike Housing Calls?

    
paper-money


  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...)

    
thehousingbubbleblog


  Is This Supposed To Be A Good Investment' (Some housing bubble news from Wall Street and Washington. CNN Money, “Demand