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Trick or Treat: Real Estate Investing in 2012

by Michael Zuber | October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween! I love Halloween for one simple reason, I get to make lots of people (mostly kids) smile. I love handing out big handfuls of candies to every trick-or-treator. I always buy way too much candy with the sole idea of getting kids to say “Wow!” or “Did you see how much he gave [...]

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Real Estate Deals

What Falling Prices? Asks San Fran Real Estate Pros, Says Report

by Charles Feldman | October 30, 2006

Okay…it was bound to happen. After all that bad news about falling prices in the real estate sector, along comes some real estate professionals in San Francisco to say–hey, not here, buddy!–We’re Okay. According to North Gate News Online (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)-some of the experts in SF insist the dismal housing prices [...]

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Economy

Biggest Drop In New Home Prices In More Than 30 Years

by Charles Feldman | October 27, 2006

Interesting news the other day out of the Commerce Department and reported in the New York Times about new-home prices: The median price (the statistical point where half the houses are priced less but half are priced more) of a new house nosedived 9.7 percent last month when compared with the same month one year [...]

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Economy

U.S. Housing Boom: The World Wants To Know, What Next?

by Charles Feldman | October 23, 2006

The headling of the Financial Times article sums it all up: “How U.S. housing boom may be coming to tricky end.” The piece says the “sudden slowdown” in the housing market in this country is sending analysts all over the world to look for clues about what might happen next. The article raises the following [...]

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Housing

2007-A Year Of Declining CA Housing Prices?

by Charles Feldman | October 18, 2006

A drop of 2 percent…that is what is expected to happen to housing prices in California during 2007, according to the state Association of Realtors as reported by Eve Mitchell in the Mercury News. Some good news,though. The market, says the Mercury News article, should fair slightly better up in the Bay Area, in large [...]

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Housing

Median Home Prices Fall First Time in 11 Years

by Joshua Dorkin | September 25, 2006

The National Association of Realtors today reported that the median home price in the US fell in August to $225,000 down 1.7% from August of 2005. This is the first time a year over year decline in median home prices has occured since April 1995. According to The New York Times: “David Lereah, chief economist [...]

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Real Estate Resources

Zillow Takes Step Towards Democratizing Home Prices

by Joshua Dorkin | September 20, 2006

Starting today, Zillow is allowing its users to get their say in what homes are worth by allowing them to enter their own price estimates alongside the site’s proprietary Zestimates. Apparently the move was in response to feedback from the users of the site. I’ve heard much debate about the accuracy of the Zestimates, both [...]

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