The Painted Lady closed today - for full price, $499,000 VA. We knew that the buyer was fully engaged in the house (just by paying the full pop), but like we saw in Diana's article, agents and sellers never know if you have a sale until the inspection is completed. ...
Year: 2011
47% Off
This is listed at 53% of it's previous sales price (2005):
Snoopy Prevails
From the Daily Pilot: COSTA MESA — It will be a Charlie Brown Christmas after all. Though Jim Jordan's foreclosed home at 2269 Santa Ana Ave. now belongs to Wells Fargo, the plywood psychiatry booth, character cutouts, Santa Claus stage in the backyard and other...
Market ‘Stabilization’?
Excerpted from cnbc.com: Diana: Anecdotally, I was doing a report on a residential street in Northwest DC last week, an area that is still holding its own and didn't lose much in the housing crash. I was standing in front of a "For Sale" sign, when the Realtor from...
Holiday Lights – Dec. 6th
From sddt.com: The general public is invited to Naval Base San Diego for the first-ever Surface Navy Holiday Lights Event on Dec. 6. Visitors can drive on the base to view Navy ships decked out in holiday cheer and tour one of the Navy’s finest ships. Admission is...
Next Year’s ‘Tax Credit’
Schumer says the "homeowners' visa" bill has a good chance of passing - from cnbc.com: A new Senate bill would help spur demand in U.S. housing by offering foreign investors a three-year "homeowners visa" if they invest half a million dollars cash and stay in the...
Occupy Y’all Street
Hat tip to jpinpb for sending this along, from msnbc.com: ‘Occupy’ protesters and housing rights activists are planning to help families resist eviction from foreclosed homes and take control of vacant properties in some 25 U.S. cities on Tuesday, an effort aimed at...
New Post-Bubble Low
Thanks to Rich Toscano for the excellent work at the voiceofsandiego.org: The Case-Shiller index of San Diego home prices declined in September. For the month, the low-priced tier dropped 1.6 percent, the middle tier 1.1 percent, and the high tier .1 percent. The...
Milking Welfare System
Hat tip to AL for sending this along, from nwcn.com: SEATTLE -- She lives in a beautiful waterfront home on Seattle’s Lake Washington. Yet, she's on welfare assistance. This week federal agents moved in to put a stop to it. They raided her south Lake Washington home...