Does seeing articles like this cause buyers to get in the game? From Albert Bozzo at cnbc.com: After half a decade of withering sales and slumping prices, there are strong and diverse signs that the single-family housing market is poised for a rebound. In some...
Year: 2011
New Leu
What would you call this style, Modern Hawaiian Plantation? There are two bedrooms and two baths and a big garage downstairs that will be on a future reel - trying to keep these videos shorter!
Tan Man On The Move
From the Real Estalker.com: YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Yesterday, while mindin' the necessary ps and qs for our discussion about the Thousand Oaks, CA mansion recently leased by phoenix-like pop phenom Britney Spears, we rather randomly ran across another, smaller mansion...
Regulate Speculators Like China?
From HW: Four years after the housing bust, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York are putting some of the blame on real estate speculators, saying they played a key role in blowing up the housing bubble that eventually popped, causing home prices to...
Sinatra’s Party Pad
From msnbc.com: If walls could talk, the ones in this 50s-era home would probably be slurring from all the highballs. Frank Sinatra rented it in his Rat Pack heyday and sublet the guest house to Marilyn Monroe. It was the site of her last photo shoot and allegedly...
Twilight Stars’ Rental
From the Hollywood Reporter: Twi-hards already have access to the wedding dress Kristen Stewart donned in Breaking Dawn - Part 1, the honeymoon home from the film can be rented by the day, as well as jewelry and other accessories used by the Twilight actors throughout...
REO vs New
You have choices here - either you can buy a TM-built brand-new version of the same house, starting at $840,990 (they bought the tract after it was halfway built-out), or you can opt for this Davidson-built product from 2008 that just listed as an REO:
Future: Smaller One-Story Homes
From HW: In the run up to the financial crisis, the country was riddled with bigger and better home designs, appealing to a particular taste that faded quickly, leaving the market with empty homes to fill. While it's true many still dream of that white-picket fence...
Banks Aren’t Discounting
This guy has intriguing evidence, but his reasons are just ivory-tower guesses. Hat tip to DB for sending this along from businessinsider.com: Barclays analyst Stephen Kim is becoming increasingly convinced that the housing market is near a bottom and that it will...
CV REO Trucking!
A preview of the next entry on the JtR REO Challenge Tour: