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Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Mar
13
Is the Real Estate Downturn Really Over?
Just five or six years ago, there was near universal agreement with the Donald Trump quote above. The significant equity market swoon, from 2000 through 2002, left investors questioning whether equity markets could produce returns commensurate with the high volatility. Housing prices, on the other hand, bucked the trend and showed remarkable strength in
Mar
09
Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001 Journal
Mar
07
Home Prices Lower, But Putting Up a Good Fight
"Home prices across the nation saw light levels of depreciation in February, consistent with the trend we have seen over the last several months," said Dr. Alex Villacorta, Director of Research and Analytics at Clear Capital. "However, the Northeast, Midwest, and West improved performance against last month's quarterly declines in light of increases in REO
Mar
02
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Feb
27
California Short Sales Hit 3 Year HighShort 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
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Feb
21
California Real Estate Sales Up, Values DownMedian 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
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Feb
16
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Feb
13
US Home Sales Forecast: Additional Declines in 2012Residential 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
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
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Feb
06
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Feb
02
3 Ways To Cut Your Kids' Sugar IntakeIf 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.
Feb
02
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Jan
31
No Bottoming Out for Real Estate Market as Home Values Keep FallingIf 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
Purple: Bombs at the Education Factory: A 2001-2002 Journal, cont.u
Jan
27
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Jan
26
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