An excerpt from cnnmoney.com, about respected Laurie Goodman, the current record holder for highest estimate of expected foreclosures across the country: On top of the 2.5 million homes that have already fallen to foreclosure since the bubble burst, another 4.5...
Can You Top This?
Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
Hat tip to Mr. T for sending this along:
NAR Circus
People have been sending in the links to the story about the NAR sales recount. http://www.cnbc.com/id/45659547 NAR has always been irrelevant, and will always be - they are a joke. They don't do a hard count of the actual sales; instead, they estimate the sales...
Tan Man On The Move
From the Real Estalker.com: YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Yesterday, while mindin' the necessary ps and qs for our discussion about the Thousand Oaks, CA mansion recently leased by phoenix-like pop phenom Britney Spears, we rather randomly ran across another, smaller mansion...
Snoopy Prevails
From the Daily Pilot: COSTA MESA — It will be a Charlie Brown Christmas after all. Though Jim Jordan's foreclosed home at 2269 Santa Ana Ave. now belongs to Wells Fargo, the plywood psychiatry booth, character cutouts, Santa Claus stage in the backyard and other...
A Full-Screener
$88,000,000 Listing
From The Real Estalker: New York-based financier Sandy Weill has already "reached an agreement with an unnamed buyer" to purchase his posh and exceedingly pricey penthouse at 15 Central Park West in New York City. You'll recall that Mister and Missus Weill heaved and...
House That Tweets
From HW: Leave it to Silicon Valley to come up with a new idea for a struggling housing market desperate to revive the American Dream. Jen O'Neal, with the help of her sister, decided to give the house their parents are selling a voice on Twitter. For those living...
Sandicor’s Consumer Website
Now that the barn door has been left open for several years, our local MLS provider, Sandicor, has finally developed a website that will allow the consumer to access the MLS directly: http://consumer.sandicor.com They don't ask us for ideas about what it wanted and...
Catfish Recovery
From HW: The U.S. housing market hit bottom this year and will remain flat until 2014, when it will start to slowly recover, said Rick Sharga, an executive vice president with Carrington Mortgage Holdings. "We’re looking at a catfish recovery," he told attendees at...