“Coming Soon” to your local MLS: pocket listings
Agents may now use a new status for multiple listing service (MLS) listings called Coming Soon. But how much does it encourage underhanded tactics?
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Tag: California real estate prices
The votes are in: rising rates expected to drive down sales volume and prices within five years
Readers weigh in on rising mortgage interest rates’ effect on the real estate market.
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Real estate monolith foresees trouble
What do you do when a giant real estate corporation grumbles? You listen.
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Are we in for another housing bust?
It’s on everybody’s mind: is the California real estate market poised for another downturn?
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Southern California real estate balances on the fulcrum
Inventory is up, sales are falling and prices are still too high — a recipe for regional downturn if we ever saw one.
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Second mortgages signal financial accelerator effect
Second mortgages almost disappeared after the financial crisis. Recent price inflation has brought them back, but for how long?
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Builders are merry when they ought to be wary
Building is up and bigger is better. But does the demand really exist?
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Higher wages, higher home sales volume
Raising the minimum wage is a strong step in the right section for stimulating the economy and improving the housing market.
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Erring on the side of optimism in 2014
Credit rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has looked into its real estate crystal ball and announced its findings: 2014 will be a year of slow growth.
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Positive equity, proceed with caution
Homeowners gained trillions in positive equity over 2013. Will it last?
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A glance back and a glimpse of the future: first tuesday’s 2013 year in review
For our 2013 year in review, we look back over a year rife with risky speculation, serious price inflation, discontent with the trade unions and some robust of regulation.
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California prices ready to pop
Home prices continue to increase in California’s metro regions, but there are signs of slowing.
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Janet Yellen: a dove with talons
The ritual flogging began on Capitol Hill this week to test Janet Yellen’s worth as the next Chairperson of the Federal Reserve.
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