Real Estate Market News
Live blogging from Inman’s Real Estate Connect in San Francisco: Kenneth Rosen, Chair Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley, said that Washington’s economic policies for housing are basically kicking the US housing market in the teeth. He’s my new hero!
Here in San Francisco at Inman Real Estate Connect, Doug Duncan, VP and Chief Economist over at Fannie Mae just said he bought a home in Florida… Because Florida is on sale!
Great article in this week’s TIME Magazine, slim as it is, showing the difference in the 10% and 20% down payment model. Subscription required online, page 17 if you want to skim while at the check-out line. As you may know, the Feds (Dodd-Frank) want to increase home buyer’s “skin in the game”, requiring higher…
So you might think, home sales are off, Realtors are quitting the business left and right, the real estate gold rush is clearly over over over. So why would anyone open a new real estate brokerage firm in July 2011? One that offers agents 100% of their commission? I don’t know, but I am going…
We just returned from a spectacular weekend with friends Gary and Laurie Tipton at their beautiful home, “Tip’s Lodge” on Lake Cypress Springs. I want a lake house. Full disclosure: I’m looking at Beacon Hill, too, on Cedar Creek Lake. It’s a little closer in, and the developer is creating one of the most magnificent lake…
