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The Muddle Years – Why the California economy is destined for years of slow growth and declining home values. 10 charts showing California still deep in recession and no state budget as we enter September.


Real Homes of Genius: Manhattan Beach and million dollar neighborhood trends. Commercial real estate and residential foreclosures meet in unlikely zip code. Forbes 29th most expensive zip code enters correction.


5 reasons why falling home prices will be good for the economy – Higher homes values does not mean higher home equity, financial sector profits back up to 30 percent of all corporate profits, the mortgage debt equation.


Countrywide and Pay Option ARMs on trial – The most toxic mortgage ever invented by mankind is now under trial by the SEC with Countrywide.


Los Angeles County real estate values overpriced by 30 percent after adjusting for inflation. Data from 2000 to 2010 and looking at Burbank, Pasadena, Culver City, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica.


The fallacy of cheap home prices and the two income trap – dual income households underscore massive housing inflation. Nationwide home prices overvalued by 25 percent.


Southern California home sales collapse by 21 percent year over year. Real estate tanks simultaneously with ending of government artificial market intervention.


Nationwide foreclosure activity jumps by 12,000 from June to July. One in 397 received a foreclosure filing during the month of July.


FHA has become the new toxic lender of first resort – 4 out of 10 loans made in expensive Southern California are FHA backed. FHA now backing apartments in Manhattan with a price tag of $820,000 to $3 million with a 3.5 percent down payment.


Real Homes of Genius: Tracking the California housing bubble through the eyes of a 900 square foot Burbank home. 42 percent price decline in a city still in a real estate bubble.


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