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Year: 2011
LEED
This 3 br/3.5 ba, 3,229sf LEED house on Neptune is still for sale, down to $2,950,000:
Will Price Fix Anything?
Somebody is excited about the list price here - it gets repeated several times!
Lopez Island, WA
This 1800 sf home is located on a heavily wooded, medium-bank waterfront property on Lopez Island, Washington. The house is carefully sited amidst the existing trees and the existing land form which slopes up to the bank and view. Connections to the outdoors and...
Carmel Valley Heat
There were 33 sales over $2,000,000 between 2003 and 2010 in Fairbanks Highlands, a gate/guarded community on the east end of Carmel Valley's 92130. But with 10+ listings not selling over the last half of 2010, we thought that prices of these would keep sliding,...
House of Cards
By Matt Taibbi: Got a chance to meet Josh Rosner (co-author, with Times reporter Gretchen Morgenson, of the new book Reckless Endangerment) last night during an appearance on Eliot Spitzer’s In the Arena. We were brought in to talk about the new investigation of the...
RE Industrial Complex
From N.A.R. As you may know, there is a proposal before regulators to require a minimum of 20 percent down on all residential transactions. If allowed to take effect, the rule would put home ownership out of reach for middle-income Americans. It would take the average...
More Mortgages
People want to think the sky will be falling once Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac close up shop. On October 1st, both will likely be rolling back their super-conforming loan limit of $697,500 to $546,250 in San Diego. Eventually Fannie/Freddie will be morphed into some...
They’re Starting to Question
Excerpt from Diana's Realty Check at cnbc.com: A new report from Redfin shows new listings of existing homes dropping across the nation compared to a year ago. Seattle listings down 20 percent, Chicago down 17 percent, Boston down 7 percent and Atlanta down 21 percent...
Leucadia REO Funky
This was going to run tomorrow - but what the heck, a day early!
