San Francisco Inventories On The Rise
Although a 16% increase in the San Francisco for-sale listings is hardly substantial, it is directional (and important to note). According to the New York Times: For-sale listings have also…
Uppity Academics
It’s doom and gloom Wednesday. Not only are the economists at UCLA’s Anderson school calling the peak of the California real estate market, they’re putting 50/50 odds on a statewide…
Dueling Academics
A new study by researchers at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School suggests that housing prices in San Francisco are NOT overvalued. The study, titled “Assessing High…
Sticks And Stones…
Nothing like being labeled a housing “Danger Zone” (as if earthquakes weren’t enough). CNN/Money confirms that the majority of buyers in San Francisco (and 49% of buyers in Oakland) are…
Start Listening To Those “Academics”
If you don’t heed the warnings of the academics, at least take a lesson from the history books. Excerpts from a recent article in Knowledge@Wharton: What’s driving this market? Most…
Anti-Bubble Counterpoint
We’re feeling a bit worn out from all the recent housing doom and gloom, so we’re serving up a couple of anti-bubble articles to add some pep in your step…
Now That’s A Chart!
(Chart from NYT article: Be Warned: Mr. Bubble’s Worried Again) Robert J. Shiller, the Yale economist who published “Irrational Exuberance” in the year 2000, is at it again. And with…
Weekend Update Special
We don’t usually update the site on weekends, but we have a feeling that tonight’s cocktail parties might be all atwitter over today’s New York Times bubble article, and we…
A Clue From Down Under?
Ever been to Sydney, Australia? It’s beautiful on-the-bay living in a geographically constrained, internationally desirable, and damn expensive city. Sound familiar? So when JPMorgan goes on record stating that house…
We’re Raising The “Bubble Alert” Level To Yellow
We’re wishing we hadn’t already used-up our “An ARM (And Quite Possibly A Leg)” headline. Considering how alarmed we’ve been with the explosion of ARM financing, we’re down right terrified…