Month: April 2012

Dearth of Inventory

From the mercurynews.com: The Bay Area is seeing more improvement than other markets nationwide, but its lack of inventory is a problem, according to Rick Turley, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage for the San Francisco Bay Area. Turley recently told...

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Dawgifornia

Hat tip to Stormin for sending this along from the nytimes.com: SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — For decades, California has been seen nationally and by its own residents as a state divided into north and south, urbane tree-huggers versus car-obsessed beach hoppers. But the...

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Mello-Roos Is Deductible Now

Hat tip to profhoff for sending this in, from the sfgate.com: On the eve of tax-filing deadline, the Franchise Tax Board abandoned its campaign to get California property owners not to deduct a portion of their real estate taxes. "We have removed material from our...

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More Foreclosures?

I've been hearing it over the last week or so (really it's been over the last few years!) - people telling me that they've "heard" that more foreclosures are coming.  This nonsense is driven every year by RealtyTrac, a company that SELLS FORECLOSURE SUBSCRIPTIONS....

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Do Looks Matter?

Hat tip to SM for sending this along, from BigThink.com: I am trying to sell my house at the moment in a particularly hot local housing market. The market isn’t the only thing that is hot. So is my agent. It turns out that her attractiveness could be very good news in...

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