Fleeing California? You’re Not Alone
United Van Lines has tracked state-by-state migration patterns since 1977. From its most recent report: For 2005, the accounting is based on the 226,353 interstate household moves handled by United…
Ignorance Is Bliss (Until You lose Your House)
It looks like the two Davids are starting to plead ignorance with regard to the impact that investors (i.e. speculators and flippers) will have on the housing market. First David…
Slicing Up San Francisco
Billed as “Rental Property Statistics for the San Francisco Bay Area,” RentSlicer is the latest Craigslist/GoogleMaps mash-up to enter the market. They’re still working out the kinks (no Hayes Valley…
Bubble History Repeating?
We have often looked at real estate bubbles in other countries for insight into our local market, so we’re a big fan of the New York Times feature on Japan’s…
Not Exactly A “Soft Landing”
Billing itself as “by far the leading Real Estate News site on the Internet” (whatever), the Realty Times analyzes Robert Campbell’s November edition of The Campbell Real Estate Timing Newsletter:…
San Francisco Sales Continue To Fall
In case you missed it, home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area fell 6% this past November (-14% compared to the year prior), while the Median Sales price was…
Hardly A Bunch Of Hacks
Thanks to The Housing Bubble 2 for alerting us to the following: Q: PIMCO is following the U.S. housing market very closely, forming a research team and sending people around…
Can You Say Speculative Bubble Froth?
“At the same time rental rates were dropping, we had housing prices totally skyrocketing”. Credit Andrew Zacks, a “San Francisco lawyer who handles Ellis Act evictions and other land use…