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bubble: Sonoma County Housing Trends - A Grand Flatness... - 01/19/12 06:33 PM
I have a love hate relationship with charts. I love them...everybody else hates them. Unfortunately, there is no better way to convey a huge amount of information as quickly as you can graphically so I will continue to make occasional charts when the results can illuminate a story.
A lot of people are on the sidelines of real estate today. Interest rates are as low as we're likely to see them. The affordability index for my area is the best it has been in decades, so homes are as affordable as they have been in a long time. However, in spite … (4 comments)

bubble: Three Lessons from the Housing Bubble - 10/11/11 12:09 PM
Houses are great investments! They always go up in value!
Ever hear that before? Maybe in 2004 or 2005? Real estate agents may have been collectively insane, asleep at the wheel, or just oblivious to the reality of housing values, but the run-up in prices known as the housing bubble took almost everyone in the real estate industry by surprise. Plenty of my colleagues were busy upgrading to larger homes, taking out bigger mortgages, and betting on the inevitable rise in the market. Oops. 
In hindsight, there are plenty of clues to indicate we should have understood the nature of the … (69 comments)

bubble: A Blogging Voice Retires - 12/31/09 11:55 AM
We have an interesting blogger working in Healdsburg. He's anonymous, opinionated, and interesting to read. We have had occasional rounds of debate during the year as we argue for our respective sides of the "housing is a bubble" and "housing was a bubble" debate. It boils down to whether you think most of the corrections have already happened or there remains a big drop in valuations.
I think it's fair to hold both sides of bubble arguments.
In particular, I think entry level housing has already finished correcting. On the other hand we still have some price changes to come in … (0 comments)

 
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Real estate and green building information for Sonoma County California with an emphasis on Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Forestville, Guerneville, Graton, and the Russian River Valley, Dry Creek Valley. and Alexander Valley.I write a lot about REO property, fixers, luxury estate homes, and vineyard property. I love to analyze sales trends.


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