A report from the Mountain Democrat in California. "During a recent interview for a listing I made the mistake of assuming the sellers were aware their home was not worth today what it was last summer. My mistake became evident…
It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Today iBuyers are the ones getting shafted. Laurie Tayrien and her husband bought a home in Phoenix for $485,000 in November. Only five months earlier, Opendoor had purchased it for $646,800. That's…
A report from The New Orleans Advocate in Louisiana. "When Roxanna Campos and her husband put their 40-year-old Bucktown house on the market in January, they thought the three-bedroom brick Ranch would be a quick sell. As a local real…
A report from Axios on Arizona. "A New York Post article reporting that Goldman Sachs has forecast a 2008-level housing crash in Phoenix sent ripples through the Valley's real estate industry last week.The median Phoenix home sale price, which was…
A report from Silicon Valley. "Last year 'just got really bumpy real quick,' said Janine Hunt, an agent with Red Oak Realty in Oakland. 'We knew it was coming. What goes up must come down.' The median price of existing…
A weekend topic starting with Reason. "In 2010 Thomas Hoenig, then the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a member of the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee, thought he was seeing history repeat itself. In…
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A report from the Boston Globe in Massachusetts. "For the two decades Erika Patino’s parents owned their modest two-family in Hyde Park, the house was a rock for them, their ticket to economic stability. As federal and state rental assistance…
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