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ARM-FRM crossover removes last support for home prices
The interest rate inversion has completely eliminated the appeal of ARMs — and the price support ARMs provided before the inversion.
Mortgage delinquencies rise from historic low
While home sales volume is plummeting and home prices are spiraling, there is one housing factor on the rise — mortgage delinquencies.
The mean price trendline: the home price anchor
The mean price trendline reveals housing price deviations. Track the trends to reveal the direction of prices in the years ahead.
California home sales volume broke another decade low in January 2023
California home sales volume started 2023 with the lowest numbers since the Great Recession.
Underwater homes, reduced construction starts spell change for California’s active agent population; Monthly Statistical Update (March 2023)
https://vimeo.com/802054438 The Monthly Statistical Update (MSU) keeps agents and brokers current on the market trends affecting California real estate transactions. This month, we’re covering: the share of California’s mortgaged homes underwater, now inching higher...
Stagflation woes put California’s housing market on alert
Will stagflation rear its ugly head again in 2023, pushing the housing market deeper into recession?
The many pitfalls of pocket listings
The risky business of pocket listings are dangerous for sellers, buyers — and brokers.
A property’s energy consumption: Part 2: Marketing a property’s energy use
How seller’s agents can market a home’s energy use, from a green home to an energy-sucking fixer-upper.
Homebuyers recede as 2022’s mortgage rate tsunami ends
As long as buyers are limited by rising mortgage rates, the seller’s list price is the only moveable part in the transaction.
Surrender cancels the lease agreement
When a tenant materially breaches a lease agreement, the landlord may complete a surrender, in which the landlords accepts a return of possession from the tenant in exchange for cancelling the lease agreement.
A property’s energy consumption: known and demanded in a recession: Part 1
During a recession, buyers have the luxury to pick over every aspect of a home – including its energy costs.
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