Hat tip to the three different people who sent this in - do-it-yourselfers rejoice!
If It Ain’t Broke…
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Year: 2011
Melbourne Modern
Morris Partnership designed the Richmond house in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. This inner city site confronted the Architect, Michael Morris, with a number of challenges: Overlooking on three sides An adjacent Victorian cottage to the west boundary. A barren...
Where Sellers Are Bubbly
These graphs demonstrate some of the insanity in today's marketplace. While the list prices Carmel Valley, RSF, and Encinitas have remained relatively subdued.... Carmel Valley, 92130: RSF, 92067: Encinitas, 92024: In Eastern Carlsbad, the list prices have taken off...
Would You Buy This?
Hat tip to daytrip for sending this along, from newsday.com: The East Meadow home where serial killer Joel Rifkin may have slaughtered some of his victims, storing at least one body in the garage, recently sold for $322,000, according to real estate records. The...
Solana Beach REO Condo
Many will recognize the white condos on the hill that you can see from the grandstand at the track. The high sale of this model was on the top street - it sold for $850,000 in 2007, the same year they had a $80,000 assessment per unit for a full makeover:
Loan-Mod Study
From propublica.org: For the past year, we've been digging into the administration's fumbling efforts. We've crunched a lot of numbers along the way, and now we're sharing what we found – including loads of previously unreported data. Using new Treasury Department...
San Diego Underwaters
From sddt.com (SDCo. homes that have no mortgage = 20%): Nearly one in three mortgage holders in San Diego owe more than the value of their home, according to a CoreLogic report. Of residential properties with a mortgage in San Diego County, 29.2 percent, or 173,139,...
Head-Banger
This house is listed as 1,805 square feet on the tax rolls, but that has to include the upstairs loft. Will buyers pay full value on the attic room?
Just Three More Years!
From HW: Bank of America Executive Vice President Terry Laughlin said the new mortgage servicing division will work through its $1 trillion in legacy and delinquent mortgages in the next three years. In February, BofA put Laughlin in charge of the new division,...
Carmel Valley Remodels 2
A new project is underway in CV, where finding ways to expand your possibilities is imperative. This'll be finished in a couple of weeks - we'll be back then with the "after" version:
