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Traces of Smoke in Silicon Valley and Other Real Estate News Out Here in the West

by Joe Salcedo | October 22, 2011
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With over 10% of the world’s population counted as loyal members and hundreds of millions in disposable cash, high-growth tech companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and even Groupon have sparked the Northern California real estate market.  Top level employees looking for a place to stay have revved up excitement to late 90′s levels; particularly in Palo [...]

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Commentary

Who Can Turn The World On With Her Smile? Would You Believe, A Real Estate Agent?

by Charles Feldman | August 26, 2009

She’s smiling again.

Now, grant it, this might not seem like much to you, but, trust me, this could be the biggest sign to date that the real estate market is finally starting to turn around…if only a bit.

She, is a real estate agent who has been selling units in my Los Angeles building for maybe five or more years now.

In recent years, since the recession set in, her visits, with possible buyers in tow, became fewer and farther between.

And, when she did show up, the expression on her face made her look as if she had just drank a powerful laxative for breakfast. Yeah, that bad.

She apparently wasn’t selling….but neither was anyone else. How she managed to even go to work in the morning is beyond me?

And then things began to change . . .

In recent weeks, though, I could not help but notice that she suddenly seemed to have a fresh glow about her. Her smile was there again and it looked like she may have even had a coating of sparkle surgically applied to her perfect teeth.

If she weren’t a real estate agent, I would have thought her glow suggestive of….well…..you know….we’re all adults!

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Commentary

Texas: The Next Real Estate Boom?

by Jim Watkins | April 4, 2008

During a class I was teaching in 2005, one of the students asked why all the “idiot” California investors were flocking into town and buying newly constructed houses for as much as $0.90 cents on the dollar? His question drew some laughs from others in the room and they also wondered why they would pay [...]

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Housing

Sign of the Times: Southern California home sales down 30 pct in September

by Joshua Dorkin | October 17, 2007

A new report about housing in Southern California doesn’t look good. Sales of houses and condominiums in the most populous Southern California counties fell 29.9 percent from the previous month and 48.5 percent from a year earlier, DataQuick Information Systems said on Tuesday. The report covers the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Riverside, [...]

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