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San Francisco Housing and Rental Markets: Choose a Rock or a Hard Place
The San Francisco Association of Realtors, of which I am a member, just came out with its Market_Focus_Report for May_2012 (click to open). If you’re a seller or landlord, the news is great: home prices and rents are up, up, up. … Continue reading
The 2010 Residential Wrap-Up: What’s goin’ on? Not much.
Avid readers of this blog will recall that I hastily pulled my last attempt to post on this subject because of some errors in the data. Horrors. The errors caused 2010 to look like a much stronger year in terms … Continue reading
Posted in Data, interest rates, Loans, Market news, Noe Valley, single family homes
Tagged construction, interest rates, Market, median price, Noe Valley, single family
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A Chart is Worth 1000 Words
A couple of months ago (gasp!) I promised to post my favorite charts from the UC Berkeley Fisher School of Real Estate and Urban Economics’ symposium on the state of the market. I then got swamped working on my own … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Economy, foreclosure, interest rates, Market news
Tagged affordability, delinquencies, foreclosures, interest rates, Mortgages
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Ken Rosen Says “Buy Now”
Just back from the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic’s semi-annual symposium on all things real estate. (FCREUE is the real estate department within UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School.) Ken Rosen is the Center’s oft-quoted co-chair and quietly … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, interest rates
Tagged fisher school, interest rates, ken rosen, tax credit, UC Berkeley
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Alphabet Soup Revisited: What Shape Will the Recovery Take?
Back in the still-uncertain days of September 09, every market pundit had his or her own letter for what shape the recovery would take. I blogged about Ben Bernanke‘s “U,” Liz Ann Sonders‘ “V,” and Nouriel Roubini‘s “W” here. Though … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, interest rates, Loans
Tagged 2009, ben bernanke, Bernanke, Economy, interest rates, liz ann sonders, Market, Nouriel Roubini, nuriel roubini, recovery, San Francisco, Sonders, TICs
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Is Now a Good Time to Buy?
In an article entitled Great Time to Buy (Famous Last Words), last Sunday’s New York Times took a swipe at perennially optimistic real estate agents who have never seen a time that wasn’t a good time to buy a house. … Continue reading
Looking Back at 2009: Condos/TICs
Pretty much everything I said about how single family homes fared in 2009 also applies to the condo/TIC market. (TIC’s, aka Tenancy In Commons are similar to condos. For more information on TICs, see my three-part series starting here.) Condo/TICs … Continue reading
Posted in Condominiums, Data, Market news, Tenancy In Common
Tagged 2009, Condominiums, interest rates, TICs, trends
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The View From Space: 2010
The View from Space – 2010 Ken Rosen is a smart guy. He’s the co-chair of the Fisher Center of Real Estate and Urban Economics at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the investment adviser of choice … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Market news
Tagged Bob Edelstein, Economy, fisher school, forecast, interest rates, ken rosen, trends
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