We've seen that the bottom of the Carlsbad detached-home market has been around $800,000 all year. Can you get into something similar for less? Here's a tour of a 4 br/2.5 ba, 1,997sf twin home in the far-north end of Carlsbad built in 1987 and without any real...
We are happy to cover all sides of the bubble beat. This is the second release this month from our perma-bear, Mark Hanson. He has been saying the same thing for 3-4 years, and it's all based on theory and previous history. Around here, our market is almost...
These ivory-tower guys keep wasting their time debating whether to call this is a bubble or not using vague, mind-numbing graphs. From HW: There is a lot going on right now in housing and mortgage markets. But one of the debates that continues to rage on is whether or...
We should see Bubbleinfo-TV-by-drone before too long, and I was wondering what else could be done with real estate videos. Remember these guys? You don't think it will come to this, do you?
Nick at the Wall Street Journal has been doing a great job covering the real estate market lately. He likes to stir it up on Twitter, and yesterday he got a few experts to chime in about pricing in 2014: https://twitter.com/JedKolko/status/418044040395763712 There is...
Another professor commenting on the prospects of another bubble, and the renter's society:
From HW: A panel of esteemed housing experts speaking at the ABS East 2013 conference underway in Miami disagreed on Robert Shiller's recent call that U.S. housing is in a bubble. Moderator Howard Esaki, managing director at Standard & Poor's, who himself puts out...
The folks at www.1worldonline.com like to poll their audience, and last month they used a bubbleinfo.com blog post in one of their surveys. Their readers voted on this question: Is the increase in real estate value a sustainable trend? Home prices have increased...
From my favorite reporter! The perception of affordability, combined with the fact that home prices compared with rental rates are at levels last seen in the early 2000s, is making it tempting for people to think now’s a good time to buy a home. “We are currently in a...
Hat tip to Kingside for sending this along: Remember the days when residential real estate gained equity each year? It’s happening again in California, and a year from now homeowners could see as much as a 20 percent increase in the median price of homes across the...
