sonoma county wine country real estate: Tis the Season for Giving. Remember those in need.
- 12/08/16 07:02 PM
I was at a Homeless symposium sponsored by our fifth district Supervisor Shirley Zane. One of the speakers was a Dr. from San Francisco who was managing the homeless shelters in that city. He spoke of the need for shelter for the homeless in very blunt terms. If we … View more give a homeless person shelter they have a 65% change of surviving and thriving versus a 15% chance of survival by being on the streets. Pretty startling numbers. Our county of Sonoma has run out of available shelter for the homeless. Our temperature dropped into the 30’s over the past … (4 comments)
Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac report decreasing default levels. The height of defaults in the pre-bust market hit 4.6% with Fannie and Freddie but today is in the 1.4 range and decreasing. If you saw the “Big Short” you remember defaults hitting a level indicative of a market failing—but it didn’t happen. The stock market and bankers where all betting against themselves and artificially propping up the loan and real estate markets. Not this time. FICO scores? Today, FICOS are … (1 comments)
sonoma county wine country real estate: Your county's median income buys HOW much house?
- 10/20/15 11:24 AM
Here in the greatest state of California and the world-class "wine-country" region of Northern California , our prices lead the nation and seem to be originating in a galaxy far, far away! Our chief economist of the California Assoc. of Realtors (CAR) gave her annual real estate prognostication for 2016. Leslie does this every year in October. What impressed me about her presentation? the affordability charts. By the way, here is the LINK to her presentation in my DropBox account. This chart shows California by "County". I'm in "Sonoma County" (underlined in red). This shows the percentage of the households who can afford … (0 comments)
I was at a Homeless symposium sponsored by our fifth district Supervisor Shirley Zane. One of the speakers was a Dr. from San Francisco who was managing the homeless shelters in that city. He spoke of the need for shelter for the homeless in very blunt terms. If we … View more give a homeless person shelter they have a 65% change of surviving and thriving versus a 15% chance of survival by being on the streets. Pretty startling numbers. Our county of Sonoma has run out of available shelter for the homeless. Our temperature dropped into the 30’s over the past … (4 comments)
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