Just Ignore The Word “Bust”
“Bust” or not, we think Fortune’s “6 strategies” are generally sound advice: 1. Lower your expectations 2. Drive a hard bargain 3. Consider renting 4. Step away from the exotic…
We’re Losing Faith (And Not Necessarily In The Market)
We asked the obvious two months ago when Economy.com predicted 3.6% home price gains for San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin over the next two years despite analysis that suggested…
Expectation Setting: San Francisco Appreciation
It’s not the “bubble-proof” moniker that caught our attention, but the measure of San Francisco’s long-term (1949-2006) average annual home price appreciation (4.2%). ∙ Business 2.0: Bubble-proof markets
Existing Home Prices Fall Nationally (And In The West)
While it’s the local housing market that you really need to “plug in” to, it’s worth keeping an eye on the broader market trends as well. The National Association of…
Just Quotes: So Is San Francisco Hot Or Not?
“Do not be afraid of falling prices. It’s sales that are important,” Lereah said. “We needed prices to fall. We had a balloon and we are deflating it. It got…
San Francisco’s One Thumb Up
BusinessWeek gives San Francisco real estate a “thumbs up” in terms of “Value for the Long Run.” And while we agree, the jury is still out with regard to the…
The Scoop On 188 King Street: Now Selling Leasing
The links are ours; the words are from a plugged-in tipster: First, you are right on, they have sold 12 units with the last two sales coming in the last…
The President Of N.A.R. Goes To Washington
A couple of quotes from the testimony (pdf) of Tom Stevens, the President of the National Association of REALTORS, at today’s U.S. Senate hearing on “The Housing Bubble and Its…
A Sign (Quite Literally) Of The Times
File this under lagging indicators. Apparently Trump has been dumped and shock is in. And just to be clear, we’re definitely not advocating attending. (That is until the Learning Annex…
One Free Pass
If you seek insight into what’s really happening in the local real estate market (and not just the same old industry rhetoric); if you value the inside scoop on new…