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Short sales and foreclosures made up 52 percent of all recent Southern California home sales – Lenders aggressively pricing lower-end properties to move. Two Pasadena examples.


The future of the American housing market just became more complicated: The impact of the mortgage settlement and financial tectonic plates shifting.


The question of housing affordability – 17 US markets near potential price bottoms. Two are in Southern California. Southern California also has counties where mid-tier cities are overpriced and continue to correct.


Will 2012 begin the unclogging of 6,000,000 distressed properties? Over 40 percent of the 2 million active foreclosures stand with no payment in over two years and some with three years and more. Foreclosure starts surge 28 percent in last month of data. Mid-tier markets in Los Angeles and Orange County contract severely in 2011.


A case scenario in renting versus buying in Culver City – Rent a home for $2,800 or buy it for $600,000? 12 listed foreclosures while shadow inventory is up to 144.


The housing singularity and other housing oddities – more coverage on financial history in Mildred Pierce about SoCal housing bubble than all local networks combined. Geithner first to trial test his negative equity home as a rental?


A new model of real estate – Economic recovery driven not by residential real estate sector. Are lower real estate values helping the economic recovery?


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