No More Home Flipping TV!

I will not have any links in this post, even to previous posts.  I just have to vent as a Realtor and a home owner over some of the home improvement shows.  Joan and I saw one last night on HGTV network that had a maybe “Realtor” talking to a seller about how much money he [...]

Chasing the Housing Market Down.

I imagine more and more of the top real estate agents around the country are getting calls on a daily basis from home owners, who have or had their home on the market and want to know why it’s not selling and what price would we recommend.  I got one of these yesterday.  After reading this [...]

Monday Market Update.

The national housing numbers are out and show a decline in sales, again, and an increase in inventory to a 9.6 month supply of homes.  These numbers are for July.  They don’t take into account the recent sub-prime blow out or the big rise in Jumbo loan costs.  I thought I would take a quick look [...]

Take a few deep breaths!

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Yesterday, I wrote about new jobs coming to Livermore.  On today’s front page of the Valley Times was a nice, cute headline about job losses in the East Bay.    Job losses are never any fun, especially when it is your job.  The article states that 615 jobs in the mortgage industry have been lost in [...]

More Jobs for Livermore

 
With so many scary headlines about the housing and mortgage markets, there is some really good news out there as well.  Fremont based Lam Research Corp. is apparently looking at buying a couple of buildings on the north side of interstate 580, according to papers filed with the city.  According to the article in the Contra Costa Times Lam [...]

Lies, Damn Lies and Statisticians

Housing numbers have to be some of the most misused statistics out there.  As we have seen, many people have used these numbers to hype or scare consumers into doing some really dumb things. 
A lot of news came out last week about housing concerning the Tri-Valley as well as all of California.  As reported in the [...]

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