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15
May

Fashion Valley Townhome For Sale

Fashion Valley Townhome For Sale

 

$439,900 , 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths,
0 half baths, 1,450 square feet

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10
May

Real Estate History

Banks are once again being pressured by the government to make loans to low income families.

government home loansGovernment Can’t make this stuff up. After going into a massive recession, caused in part from sectors of the banking industry being heavily influenced to give out sub-prime loans to those who couldn’t afford them, whether through CRA or red-lining laws, Obama is now urging banks to start lending out to low-income families to buy houses. This government influence into banking risk analysis procedures largely got us into the mess we are in. Those who don’t learn from history, are doomed to repeat it?

San Diego MLS home listings

7
May

March Home Prices Best In 7 Years

Home Prices Increase

thumb-upThe real estate tracking company CoreLogic, just reported this morning that their home price index jumped 1.9% from February to March. But, the big news was that the index for March 2013 was 10.5% higher than the year ago period! This was the biggest increase for the home price index since March 2006. Read more »

2
May

San Diego Townhouse For Sale

 San Diego Townhouse For Sale

Just listed in the San Diego MLS. #130021714. Spacious 3Br./2Ba townhome located in the desirable Fashion Hills neighborhood. this is just above San Diego’s prestigious Fashion Valley Shopping Center, on the North rim of the Valley.

Open westerly views with both a front balcony and the large fence rear patio area. Read more »

30
Apr

U.S. Homeownership Rate Falls

U.S. Homeownership

San Diego real estateWell, for most people. Today’s real estate news was about the good home price appreciation, announced in the release of the Case Shiller 20 city index. on a number of TV and radio news reports that I heard during the day, not one that mentioned the increase in the case Shiller index said anything about the announced news today from the Census Bureau that announced the US homeownership rate dropped to its lowest level since 1997! Read more »

29
Apr

Home Sales for March Improve

March pending home sales improve

real estate sales The National Association of Realtors just announced that pending home sales increased in March 2013 to the highest rate since April 2010! Home purchase contracts signings rose in the South, West and Midwest, and were unchanged in the Northeast.

Home purchase signed contracts were 7 percent higher than the March , 2012 figures. Read more »

25
Apr

Real Estate Political Correctness

Political Correctness in the Real Estate Market Gone Too Far?

real estate political correctnessThe politically correct movement has finally gotten around to the real estate industry. Some say that it was initiated by HUD, but I could not verify this. A number of new home developers, as well as resale real estate firms are no longer using the term ‘master bedroom suite.’ The liberals in government and the real estate industry are moving forward in their push for self-censorship to keep anyone from possibly being offended and to make common sense citizens feel like bigots . . . the master bedroom phraseology will will soon fade from our collective memories as we now refer to this room as the ‘owners suite’ or ‘owner’s bedroom.’ There is even talk of  renaming “family” room because it may offend those without families! Read more »