Real estate giant Zillow entered a hot and unpredictable housing market as a speculator experimenting with iBuying and got burned, reporting a total net loss of $530 million in 2021.
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Zillow’s large-scale flipping scheme was bound to fail.
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Home flippers made more money in 2015 than any year before.
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Speculators drive — and crash — the market.
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Absentee homebuyers continue their swift exit.
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Institutional investors are tucking tail and looking for better bets than Southern California real estate.
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Behind the truly encouraging mortgage delinquency figures lurks a few problems.
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The Great Recession ended nearly five years ago, yet the California real estate market is still recovering. Secular stagnation has led to long-term frustration. But what exactly is wrong and what’s to be done?
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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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Large real estate investors are changing their strategy. Are you keeping up?
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You don’t have to know who Larry Summers is and you don’t need to care about macroeconomics to be interested in this story. If you are curious about the fate of the California real estate market, read on.
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We asked our readers how rents were performing in their local markets in light of the current speculative pricing bubble. 51% said rents were still surging.
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Look at the role speculation has played in the recovery from the Great Recession.
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Yale economist and real estate pricing guru, Robert Shiller, has published article after book after research report arguing that homeownership is not necessarily a lucrative investment.
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