Hat tip to kwaping for sending along this U-T article on San Diego being 21% undervalued: Link to U-T article An excerpt: San Diego County used to be one of the nation's most overpriced real estate markets, as much as 40 percent above historic norms, according to the...
Month: June 2009
Sellers Waiting For Comeback
From the Associated Press: NEW YORK - The real estate market's troubles are hitting close to home for Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. After reducing the price on his house in a tony New York City suburb to less than he paid for it, Geithner still couldn't sell...
Instant Winner
Where is this long, lonely stretch of pavement? Four tickets to Friday night's Padres' game to the first person to identify this location! Hint: I'll be there today from 1-4pm. You've seen those wimpy solar lights hanging on for-sale signs lately? They're not for me...
Beach Bingo
The developers paid $2,600,000 for this .98-acre lot in March, 2004. Three years later they were ready to go, and took out a construction loan with Affinity Bank for $11,874,000: While having you own personal elevator is quite a novelty, buyers may be a tad reluctant...
Trustee-Sale Competition
Are you thinking about buying a property at a trustee sale, and wondering about the competition? Here's a flipper who purchased this 2,031sf house in Oceanside for $294,500 in February, 2009, and sold it again in April for $390,000. (It was listed for $379,900, new...
May Sales & Cost/SF
These are the preliminary numbers of detached home sales, and cost-per-sf for May. While there are some signs of relative stability, all the hub-bub about the market improving hasn't translated down to sales increasing yet - or cost-per-sf: Town or Area Zip Code May...
Oceanside Still Hot
One of the five REOs assigned to us the first week of February has made it to the open market: It had sold for $490,000 in September, 2005, and was financed 100%. Eight offers in so far, looks like it will sell close to $300,000. Hope the appraiser agrees!