Here's a new REO listing with some pop in Carmel Valley. Guess the sales price in the comment section, and the closest will win tickets to a Chargers game - it might be one of the last times to see them play in San Diego!
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Month: August 2011
Housing Containers
Hat tip to clearfund for sending this along - isn't it just a matter of time before we'll see these here being used for low-income and/or senior housing? It seems difficult to overstate the versatility of the humble shipping container. Just recently we’ve seen it used...
Let’s Try a Foreclosure Blowout!
We need market clearing - bring on the foreclosures! From CNNMoney.com: If the Obama administration really wants to save the housing market, it should speed up the foreclosure process -- not prolong the inevitable, experts say. Four years into the housing crisis, the...
San Diego C-L Price Data
These guys aren't as famous as Case-Shiller yet, but they employ a similar tracking of same-house repeat sales around the country (they have 45 million observations on file!). Here are the changes in their HPI year-over-year for the San Diego County single-family...
Rollaway Garage Door
Hat tip to Daniel (theotherone) who sent this in from Curbed, via Yahoo: A Curbed SF reader sent us the above video of a magical garage door in the Upper Haight. McMills Construction was working on an investment property on Oak Street, and they were scratching their...
Fore
I mispoke in this clip when I said $1.4 million, they only want $1,325,000 - this is the third of the four models that have gone back to the bank:
Bifurcation
Hat tip to duncbdunc for sending this along from the Atlantic, written by senior editor Megan McArdle - who isn't a realtor! So since we became homeowners, I've become more interested in HGTV. Not obsessively so, but I have more interested in watching programs about...
Case-Shiller San Diego June ’11
The latest San Diego Case-Shiller Index went up or down, depending on whether you are looking at seasonally-adjusted or not: Month Sea.Adj Non-SA May '11 155.33 154.78 June '11 154.43 155.06 The first three paragraphs from cnbc.com, who buried the story within a...
‘Crete
Tom Tarrant is close to finishing the Lady, click here for story:
Picked Through
If there aren't many (if any) quality buys, and potential sellers are reluctant to sell at these prices (though they might get more than they think) - doesn't that mean sales should be going down the rest of the year?
