Travis left this comment at #30 a couple of posts back here: I purchased my first home without knowing about value aside from recent comps. This time around I am trying to better understand “fair value” using indicators such as price-to-rent ratio. I sense that many...
Not our usual fare, but if you wonder about local employment.... From the sddt.com: While there has been a softening in the demand for for-lease biotechnology space in San Diego, you wouldn’t know it by the huge appetite publicly-traded real estate investment trusts...
From HW: Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) re-introduced legislation late Thursday that would end the bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and end their conservatorship in two years. "It’s time to enact fundamental reform of Fannie and Freddie before these companies go...
The San Diego MLS is run by Sandicor, who refuses to create a powerful website to help educate consumers and support the agents. In Houston the association of realtors is doing a great job - they help the agents create their own promotional video and then keeps...
Yesterday these comments were made a few posts back by potential buyers: So, for me this translates into “not going to overpay, no way no how.” I guess the issue is how long I can hold out, eh? Qualified and ready to go, but extremely frustrated and not going to drop...
Hat tip to Ross and Local Boy, who sent this in from CNN/Money.com: NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Renters beware: Double-digit rent hikes may be coming soon. Already, rental vacancy rates have dipped below the 10% mark, where they had been lodged for most of the past three...
After no new assignments since June - boom, nine REO listings sent to JtR in 2011 - here's #9: Hopefully there might be a day where I get one that's right up your alley!
Excerpts from the latimes.com and dataquick.com: Southern California's housing market couldn't shake off the doldrums in February despite record demand from investors and all-cash buyers. The median home price increased 1.9% in February from January to $275,000. That...
The youtube tour of the other modular home recently erected in Carlsbad:
