Mar 02

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Feb 27

California Short Sales Hit 3 Year High

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Short sales continued to soar in January, reaching their highest level in California in three years. The California Association of Realtors reported in its Pending Homes Sales Index that the number of short sales increased from January last year and also from the previous month.

A short sale is a real estate transaction in which a homeowner sells a property

Feb 24

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Feb 21

California Real Estate Sales Up, Values Down

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Median home prices went down and home sales enjoyed a slight rise for the whole of California, according to recently reported figures from DataQuick, a research company based in San Diego. This was attributed to the increase of distressed home sales around the San Francisco area and real estate investors in Southern California.

According to DataQuick's

Feb 20

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Feb 16

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Feb 13

US Home Sales Forecast: Additional Declines in 2012

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Residential property prices the US decreased again in the fourth quarter of 2011 and few areas are likely to see increases in 2012, according to the latest data from Zillow.

It's latest Home Value Index fell 1.1% but there were less significant declines in the previous two quarters and overall the drop in 2011 was 4.7%.

Zillow predicts that home values will

Feb 08

South Bay Commercial Real Estate Heats Up

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Silicon Valley developers are racing to erect office and R&D buildings to meet a fresh surge of expansions by tech companies that's turning the region into a commercial real estate boomtown. Last year, the South Bay added about 26,000 employees, enough to reduce vacancy rates for R&D properties to 16.4 percent, the lowest level since 2007.

 

And as

Feb 08

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Feb 06

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Feb 02

3 Ways To Cut Your Kids' Sugar Intake

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3 Ways To Cut Your Kids' Sugar Intake In Scotts Valley

If your children are like so many, they love sweets. It seems like it takes a few years for children to appreciate flavors more sophisticated than Hubba Bubba and Fruity Pebbles. If kids were in charge of the grocery list, we would eat popsicles for breakfast and gummy bears for dinner.

If you are trying to wean kids (or yourself) off sugar, I suggest you

Feb 02

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Jan 31

No Bottoming Out for Real Estate Market as Home Values Keep Falling

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If you're watching the real estate markets, the good news is that the Federal Reserve has pledged to keep interest rates low through 2014. The bad news is that the market is going to need it. The November Case-Shiller housing numbers, released this morning, indicate that prices tumbled 3.7% from the year before. That's below expectations of a 3.2%

Jan 31

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Jan 27

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Jan 26

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Jan 24

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Jan 23

Pessimism in California commercial real estate giving way to cautious optimism

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A mood of optimism is evident in the California commercial real estate industry, despite the mixed economic signals of the past sixth months, according to the latest Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast commercial real estate survey. The survey polled a panel of industry professionals on their views of how the market will change over the coming three

Jan 22

Star Wars Uncut, SOPA/Megaupload, soccer and Netflix

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One of my previous Netflix recommendations is "The People vs. George Lucas" and in that movie it mentions a guy who is putting together a version of the original Star Wars movie from 15 second fan-created segments collected from contributors from all corners of the Internet. Well, that video is out now and is called Star Wars Uncut. You can watch it

Jan 20

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