From the wsj.com: The Treasury market may be about to prove the haters wrong. You can't swing a dead cat these days without hitting someone warning about an imminent rise in rates on longer-term Treasury bonds—especially as the end looms for the Federal Reserve's $600...
Month: April 2011
ASID Home Tour
Click here for addresses: http://www.asidsandiego.org/chapter_profile/asid_san_diego_events_and_commitees/remodel_tour
Flipping for Everyone?
This is the video included in the huffington post article about flippers. While it is possible to flip short sales and close concurrently, trying to get everything to align is tougher than it looks - and why these guys get a bad name. They make it sound easy!
Shea Homes – Leucadia
Mozart mentioned the Shea Homes presentation last night to the City of Encinitas regarding new tract developments they'd like to build around Leucadia. We at bubbleinfo.com try to be responsive to our readers! I'm also hoping to have Richard supplement our regular...
The Gambler’s House
From the wsj.com: As a professional gambler, Billy Walters built his fortune winning at a game few have mastered: the high-stakes, high-risk world of multimillion-dollar sports betting. In a good year, he can rake in as much as $15 million from gambling, and he claims...
Jumpstart Sales, Loosen Credit
An excerpt from Realty Check on cnbc.com: "March could be the month where we begin to see the return to the kind of levels of foreclosure activity we would expect given the underlying conditions," says RealtyTrac's Rick Sharga. "We actually did start to see increased...
Housing in General
A civil discussion on the overall housing market:
Broker Preview
Every agent needs to know the inventory - especially the newer agents. Wednesdays are the day when realtors throughout North SD County Coastal are having our listings open for previewing. It is an efficient time to quickly see 5-10 properties, re-aquaint with old...
More Deadbeat Cheese On the Way
Hat tip to kwaping for sending this along, from the AP: WASHINGTON – The federal government on Wednesday ordered 16 of the nation's largest mortgage lenders and servicers to reimburse homeowners who were improperly foreclosed upon. Government regulators also directed...
Media Mis-Direction
From HW: Home sales in Southern California grew between February and March, but remain 5.2% below year-ago levels, data firm DataQuick said Wednesday. The La Jolla, Calif.-based research firm said home sales grew 35.1% on a month-to-month basis in March, but signs in...