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Gary and Margaret Hwang Smith, two economics professors at Pomona College, recently concluded that there is no national housing bubble (“Bubble, Bubble, Where’s the Housing Bubble?“). In fact, they suggest…
Bankrate “talked to experts, studied public and private databases, analyzed market trends and examined the analyses of many others” in order to arrive at their list of ten “bubble blowers”…
Okay, so who’s the genius at NAR that decided that a “balloon is a much better image” to represent the strength of the real estate market? Are we the only…
A loud “Amen!” with regard to reducing your exposure to “variable-rate or interest-only loans”, but damn, even we’re not as bearish as financial consultant, and author (Sell Now! : The…
Lots of questions with regard to sales activity for three of the New Developments we’ve recently profiled, so let’s do a quick rundown to kickoff the weekend (and help you…
As one of the New York Times “Most E-Mailed Articles”, chances are you’ve already read David Leonhardt’s Don’t Fear the Bubble That Bursts. But if not… …instead of panicking, most…
Fiserv Lending Solutions (a provider of mortgage and consumer lending services) is forecasting a 1.9% drop in home prices for the San Francisco MSA in 2006. Unfortunately we’ve never heard…
An evenly balanced follow-up from the Chronicle with regard to the their coverage of the most recent DataQuick report: This spring, Bay Area homeowners are likely to know whether the…
According to the most recent DataQuick report, Bay Area home sales plunged last month while prices held steady. From the Chronicle: Bay Area home sales tumbled to their lowest level…
Ron Parks of Vision Real Estate, and publisher of The Marin Report, definitely caught our attention with that headline. The first three paragraphs of his most recent monthly market trends…