Some Of These Towns Are Seeing Significant Price Drops
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There’s Just Not Enough Cake For Everyone
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Realtor Josh Altman joins Yahoo Finance Live to explain the Los Angeles 'Mansion Tax.' If people think they were not going to be affected because they don't have homes that are worth…
When You Control A Price And Loosen The Grip, It Can Be Challenging And Messy
A report from the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. "Greater Boston’s housing market over the last few years has been anything but normal. Prices soared to staggering heights in 2021 and 2022. And now things have cooled dramatically. Home prices have…
A Lot Of It Is Just Evidence Of Failed Speculative Activity
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "After reaching a peak of $670,000 in May 2022, median home prices in Northwest Austin have been consistently declining since August, according to the Austin Board of Realtors. February marks the seventh…
We Were Watching It Go Up And Up And Up And Up And Up And Up… And Then It Just Started Coming Down
A report from USA Today. "'Prices would not have fallen if the Federal Reserve did not raise interest rates so aggressively,' says National Association of Realtors’ Chief Economist Lawrence Yun. 'One casualty of the Fed’s policy, aside from the regional…
A Consistent Set Of Politics Based On The Ideology Of Home Ownership, Encouraging Us All To Buy As Strategic, Calculating Mini-Capitalists
A weekend topic starting with WBUR in Massachusetts. "The great unwinding of Silicon Valley Bank’s ambitions has a special sting in Boston, where the failed bank’s parent had vacuumed up two local institutions in recent years, part of its bid…
Were These Regulators Just Asleep At The Wheel?
A report from the Idaho Statesman. "The median price of a single-family home in Ada County in February was $492,115, according to the Intermountain Multiple Listing Service. That’s down 10.5% from February 2022, when the median price was $549,900. In…
When The Bids Were Over It Was, Congratulations, You Are Now Essentially The Biggest Loser
A report from CNBC. "Diana Olick: Mortgage rates moved higher again last week, pushing buyers back to the sidelines just as the spring housing market is supposed to be heating up. Applications to refinance a home loan fell 6% for…
It Was Hard For Sellers To Realize That They No Longer Have That Price Escalation
A report from the Tribune in California. "If 2022 was a roller coaster for San Luis Obispo County's housing market, 2023 appears to have pumped the brakes somewhat. The median home price has cooled off to $790,000, a notable drop…
Accept Losses Instead Of Shouting For Help
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "The Greater Boston Association of Realtors released a report indicating that the number of active listings was up across the board in the region last month. 'Buyers were hard to find over…