Lots of sensational press around the temporary foreclosure moratorium thats being implemented by some, soon to be all banks across the country. Some people are crying fraud while others are pressing random panic buttons calling for someones head…yet most really don’t know why.
I guess it just sounds like the right thing to do since banks [...]
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The Senate agreed by a 60-37 vote yesterday to extend the Home-Buyer Tax Credit closing deadline by 90 days, from June 30th to September 30th 2010. The operative word being ‘closing’ since this extension does not allow for any new borrowers to take advantage of the very successful tax-credit program and thus does nothing in the [...]
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As adoption of indexable IDX’s reaches a certain saturation point by market, does the current innate SEO value diminish, evaporate, or worse?
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The following post is simply one non-conformists opinion, albeit a relatively educated one…Its my hope that my words, cutting as they may come across, cause an epiphany for more than a few…
This entire post is based on The California Association of Realtors 2008 Home Seller Survey (released in July 2008, I just happened upon the [...]
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Market bubbles and depressions tend to be more social phenomenon than rooted in fact.
Credit Crunch, Mortgage Meltdown, Sub-Prime Crisis, Alt-A Debacle, Housing Doom, Bursting Bubbles…the cliches are as creative as the financing options that used to permeate the marketplace. But what are the real numbers behind such doomsday hyperbole?
They’re not quite as sexy nor [...]
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