How Will It Read In 2007?
The Bubble Meter provides a side-by-side comparison between the 2005 and 2006 book covers for David Lereah’s “Real Estate Boom.” It just begs the question: how will it read in…
Bottoming Out In 2009?
According to a study by Global Insight/National City, San Francisco has gone from being “fairly valued” in 2001 (well okay, 4.8% overvalued) to being overvalued by 40.8% in 2006. This…
Those Damn Fools
The Motley Fool pounces on the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the press, and housing as an “investment”: These are people who want us all to believe in housing as…
No Pop (But No Appreciation?)
While it’s an “old” speech (February ’06), it’s still a good one. Christopher Thornburg, senior economist at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, offers his perspective on whether the recent cooling…
From Bull To Bear?
You could actually hear the collective nodding of heads when Christopher Mayer, an economics professor at Columbia University, referred to San Francisco as a “superstar” city and argued that “land…
Uhh…
Not too sure what to say about this one. (Other than we didn’t sign up…)
New York Times Not Fact Checking?
The New York Times pronounces “A Chill Is in the Air for Sellers,” especially in San Rafael. In principle we agree, but based on what we know about the market,…
What’s This Guy Know About Investing?
Another one of those crazy investor types spouts off about the real estate market this weekend: “What we see in our residential brokerage business is a slowdown everyplace, most dramatically…
Fortune’s Real Estate Survival Guide
Fortune rides the bubble wave this afternoon with their self described real estate survival guide. The three chapters: ‘Welcome to the dead zone’, ‘Unmaking the myths of the housing boom’,…
Heads You Win,Tails You Lose
Perhaps we’re just getting soft in our old age (we didn’t make a big deal about it, but SocketSite recently turned one). We had access to the much ballyhooed PMI…