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Allison Russell
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Year: 2023
Trophy Properties
Remember when Doug said that buyers these days want something special? With all the domestic and international conflicts, mortgage rates at 16-year highs, and ultra-low inventory making the house-hunting almost unbearable for most buyers, there are still homes selling...
San Diego Is Most Expensive
San Diego is #1! Hat tip to Mitch for sending this in: According to the magazine, the Value Index measures how comfortably the average resident of a metro area can afford to live within their means. Specifically, it looks at housing affordability, as well as federal...
Zillow Fantasy
One of the funniest videos ever!
NSDCC September Sales
Even as the doom continues to pour in from other areas that aren't as fortunate as the North San Diego County coastal region, our home sales are defying expectations. Two facts: In September, 2022, there were 146 sales with a median sales price of $1,940,000 (16%...
More Housing Support
The White House issued a press release today that outlines more money to bolster prop up the FHA loans: For millions of Americans homeownership is a foundation for so many parts of their lives, and for many it is also their primary source of wealth. The Biden-Harris...
Inventory Watch
Recently the president of the local association of realtors was asked what the real estate market will do in the future. His response: "Nobody knows what the market is going to do in the future". Of course, immediately after that comment he said, "Interest rates have...
Bubble Talk
A former federal regulator who served when the 2006 housing bubble burst is concerned that today’s housing market is on an unsustainable path. The housing market’s affordability is worse than it’s been in decades as mortgage rates toy with 8%. The median price of a...
Celebrities Leaving California
Mark Wahlberg says he has no regrets about leaving Los Angeles for Las Vegas a year ago. In 2022, the actor said he moved his family to the Silver State to give his kids a “better life.” Wahlberg is married to model Rhea Durham, and the couple has four children....
Our Documentary Film
The video seen here yesterday was an offshoot of the documentary film, Owned, A Tale of Two Americas, by Giorgio Angelini. He contacted me in 2013 when he first started out on his coast-to-coast journey to investigate the housing bubble, which I had become notorious...
