Learning From Past Mistakes
A tipster passed along some interesting Friday afternoon reading. A couple of excerpts from a New York Times story published in 1984: “My pal Jerry P. just bought a condominium…
Not A List We Really Wanted To Make
Business 2.0 has just released their list of 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2005. And we’re not too thrilled to report that the San Francisco Bay Area real estate…
Soros Speaks
Last November we called the top of the San Francisco housing market. Two months later George Soros calls the top of the US housing bubble. “Soros said he believed the…
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:…
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…
QuickLinks: Housing Sales Slowdown
∙ Bay Area home sales dip, but prices remain strong ∙ Sales of new homes plunge ∙ Resale housing market continues to cool
UCLA Anderson’s California Economic Forecast
The Chronicle highlights the most recent UCLA Anderson Forecast: 1. Slower job growth but no recession 2. Home prices flatten but don’t plunge 3. A change at the Fed adds…
Top O’ The Market To You!
Inventories and interest rates are up, sales are down, and prices are either flat or falling. So we’re calling it: welcome to the top of the San Francisco housing market!…