Month: February 2011
Luxury Real Estate TV
From CurbedLA: General Hospital" heartthrob-turned-real estate agent Stuart Damon will be returning to the small screen with the show "Luxury Lifestyles TV," which'll air on Fox 11 starting March 6 (in the odd 11 am time slot). The show features Stuart and his son...
Encouraging Strategic Defaults?
From HW: Servicers are moving toward a proactive approach in pursuing short sales as an alternative to foreclosure, servicers on a Mortgage Bankers Association panel said Wednesday. A component and specialty servicer, meanwhile, predicted that short sales could...
Pricing a Modular
How do you price a modular? Are they nice enough that they deserve a new-house premium, or should there be a discount for being "not-stick-built". I think the price that buyers would be willing to pay depends mostly on what's happening around the immediate...
Instant House 3
Earkier today this was a vacant lot.....
Instant House 2
Angie said that the module installation will be complete by Friday, but it'll take a couple of months to button it up (plumbing, electrical, and all finishing touches):
Commercial Double Bubble?
Instant House
We've been following the modular/manufactured home idea, wondering if they will get to the point that they'll look the same as a stick-built house. Here's the latest: Hat tip to Natalie for the text-alert on the crane showing up today!
More Mumbo-Jumbo
From HW: House prices in the S&P/Case Shiller index fell 5.3% over the last two quarters of 2010, wiping out the 4.9% growth seen in the previous year and a half and sending the housing market into a double-dip, analysts at Capital Economics said Tuesday. Not...
Flat City
Today's quotes on the Case-Shiller Index report: National home prices fell 4.1% during the last three months of 2010, compared with 12 months earlier, according to the latest report from the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index, a closely watched indicator of market...
