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The latest real estate market trends show continued improvement with an increase in existing home sales and prices, and rising confidence among home builders, according to industry data released today.

Existing home sales rose 2.1 percent in October, while median home prices posted a year-over-year gain of 11.1 percent, according to a report released today

California's real estate market bucked the typical fall slowdown
last month, with buyers snapping up pricier homes and sales roaring up 18% over
the prior month. Sales hit a three-year high for an October, rising 25% from the same month last year. The median sale price for a Southern California  home last month was $315,000, equal to September and up 17%

    This short story began as a writing exercise for a class I took at Cabrillo last semester.  The exercise was writing a conversation between two characters, describing the setting, then creating a back story and future story for one or both of the characters.  The instructor liked it, so I decided to turn the completed assignment into a short story. 

The Coldwater Classic is one of the World's premier surf events, and this year Cruzio Internet is providing a premier high-speed Internet connection to live stream video of the competition for the first time.

"Watching surf contests being shown live over the Internet from Huntington Beach earlier this year really raised our competitive hackles," says

In the days leading up to the great recession, California led the country in subprime mortgage loans — reckless transactions that played a major role in the housing market bust, both here and throughout the rest of the country. However, a new RealtyTrac data report published in the San Francisco Chronicle shows the California housing market now

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California home sales and prices will likely rise this year and in 2013, though
low inventory and restricted lending will continue to curb housing
market growth, according to a forecast from the California Association
of Realtors.

Sales of existing, single-family homes are up 6.5 percent through August compared to the same period last year. After a slight

 In another positive sign for the housing market, the nation's so-called shadow inventory of properties in the foreclosure pipeline fell by more than 10 percent in July from the same period a year before, CoreLogic reported Tuesday. The tracking firm in Irvine, Calif., said the number of housing units in jeopardy of foreclosure -- or that lenders have

Pro Teck Valuation Services’ September Home Value Forecast Update examines why there will not be a flood of foreclosure housing stock across the U.S. market and how metro areas in Southern California, Texas and Maryland are experiencing positive real estate trends.

“With regard to the U.S. foreclosure inventory, there has been a misperception that it is

    There's a scourge that's plaguing the roadways of Santa Cruz, and it's drivers who open the car door into the bike lane right in front of oncoming bicyclists.  As I long time bicyslist I can say that this used to be a very rare occurrence, done by complete accident by drivers were appropriately apologetic.

But over the past year, I've noticed a sharp

We work hard at Cruzioworks. Many small companies and individuals have their own goals but also help each other and find interesting ways to collaborate. We work all sorts of hours, use tremendous amounts of Internet and drink amazing amounts of caffeinated beverages. 

And frequently, one of our coworking companies finishes a project. Elegant, useful,

Radar Logic and other people are still cranky about the housing market. They opine that the recent strength in national housing price figures won't last because of something latent lurking out there on the supply side. In statistics, latent variables can be perfectly legitimate -- but if it results in perennially brushing aside contradicting observable

The cover story for the September 10th weekly magazine Barron's is  on the recent surge in real estate and how the rise in property prices is no  fluke. In the article by Jonathan R. Laing titled "Happy at Last," readers are given a cautiously optimistic  assessment of what has already been a well established trend in the real estate  market. A distinction

Last week, Cruzio had our staff party in our headquarters.  We love our staff, they are what makes us so popular in our community and makes it great to work here. We rely on each other all year; every single staff member deserves accolades. Well, we did the best we could accolading, many thanks to Nikkie, Jahnai & Gershom for setting it all up:

Balloons were