Archive for December, 2008

Real Homes of Genius: The Five Figure Zip Codes are Growing. A $62,000 Median Home Price in Southern California?

Nearing the First 100 Days of the TARP: Three Major Trends that will Crush the 2009 Marketplace: Bank Hoarding, Resilient States now Being Dragged Down, and Losing Focus.

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Top 5 Articles This Month

• Banks cherry picking individual foreclosures that show up on the MLS in Culver City and Pasadena with proof: Southern California lenders pushing out properties in Culver City with an average price tag of $300,000. Median sale price for city is $600,000. Shadow inventory average price is $443,000 with loans at an average of $552,000. 141,000 homes in Southern California are distressed yet MLS only reflects 83,000 total properties. 44 comment(s)
• Japan Iwato and Heisei stock and housing bubbles – How the U.S. is following in the path of Japan. Real estate lost decade, technology stock market bust, quantitative easing, and mania inducing monetary policy. 40 comment(s)
• Real City of Genius – The Westside of Los Angeles. Three short sales in Palms, Santa Monica, and Culver City. $100k to $300k in discounts in prime Southern California locations. Short sales still too expensive even with large discounts 40 comment(s)
• California real estate foreclosure math – Notice of defaults decline while actual foreclosures increase. Why are notices of default falling while those falling behind on their mortgage are still at record levels? The 550,000+ California properties in distressed limbo. 17 comment(s)
• American Savings: Americans Save an Average of $392 Per Year. Total Consumer Debt is over $2.5 Trillion. The Dark Knight of Debt. 27 comment(s)

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Recent Comments

• CPA in FW: Wow, didn’t mean to start a culture/opinion war with my comments. Everyone knows that Texas is...
• Betty: CPA in Fortworth TX, most people in SoCal already own a home, so it is taking the equity out(many people have...
• Mike T.: Look…. Texas sucks. Period. I lived in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for two years and would never move...
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• Laura Louzader: In Shaker Heights, lovely condos are being given away. I viewed on the MLS three immense beautiful...

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