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- Change-a-roo
- More Fallout from Fraud
- Thanks For Reading!
- Quotable
- Mortgage Fraud Guilty Plea
- Active/Pending Ratio Update
- Sandicor Strikes Again
- More on VP
- On Every Corner
- 3Q08 Contest Update
- Biggest SD Boondoggle Ever
- Listing Photo of the Week
- Data Points
- The Grumbler
- Worried About WaMu?
- Speaker Panel
- Game the System
- DAPs Aren't Dead Yet!
- Another Oceanside REO w/Slope
- More Trouble on Compass
- Interest Rate Update
- Auction Report
- Sellers Giving Up?
- August Sales & Pricing
- Election & Real Estate
- Realtor Tools
- Carlsbad Closings Near $200/SF
- "November Lowball List"
- Last-Third of 2008
- Million-Dollar Market, Part 2
- Million-Dollar Market
- Bubbleinfo T-Shirts!
- Short-Sale Observations
- Contest Winners!
- Many Thanks
- Comparison By Area
- Freddie Note Sale
- Any Retail Sales in 4Q08?
- REO Sales Addendum
- Short-Sale Progress Report
- RE Websites - Which is Better?
- Escrows Falling Out
- Carlsbad Desal Plant Approved
- 10 Rules for Dating My Daughter
- High in the Hills of Oceanside
- Mortgage Underwriting Squeeze
- Foreclosure Filings
- More Inquiry on O-side REOs
- Rental Scam Busted
- Flippin' Banks
- Ice Cream For Everyone!
- Barratt Properties in Receivership
- Wrecking Ball
- Light Entertainment
- SD REO Counts
- El Caballero
- Neg-Am Recasts
- What a Race!
- Year-End Beatdown
- Responding to Offers
- Shorts and REOs
- More RE Tax Reform
- Astronomy?
- Website Upheavals
- Oceanside 92057
- REO and NOTS Lists
- Tax Dollars At Work
- Pricing Extrapolation
- Vista Bank-Owned Duplex
- Pre-Selling REOs
- Do-Gooders or Extortionists?
- Market Snapshot
- Should You Buy Now? LAT
- More Robot Realty
- Power Lines and RE
- Follow-Up on Trustee Sales
- Good Flip in 4S Ranch
- More CB Psycho-Babble
- The Big Freeze
- REO Counts Dropping (?)
- As Seen On CR
- REO Agents...or Robots?
- Collision Course II
- More Analysis on Pricing
- Trustee Sale - Case Study
- Throw Rocks, Glass House
- Foreclosure Hunting
- Max Goof
- New "Buy-and-Bail" Rule
- More Spin From CB
- Contest on Arthur
- Higher-End Foreclosures
- Neg-ams in Your Area?
- May/June Sales
- Some "Relief" Bill
- REO Trail - 60% off
- SD Housing Price Index
- Mid-Day Report
- Bargain-Priced REO
- Collision Course
- Hot Buy in Vista
- Future Government Interference
- Could Fannie/Freddie Bailout Help?
- Mortgage Credit Crunch
- 92130 - Pricing History
- More 92130 - D Hill Pricing
- 92130 - 2008 vs. 2004/2005
- More from the REO Trail
- HSBC Doing It Right
- More Mortgage Fraud
- Banks Fall, Higher-End Hurts
- 3rd Quarter Contest
- More June Stats
- Neg-Ams Already Going Delinquent
- Walkaway x 7
- Did Banks Think About This?
- Just a Vacation Home
- June Stats
- Realtor Survey
- Real Estate Investing
- Market Clearing
- Sandicor - Thanks Again!
- An Orderly Descent
- Massive Squishdown
- Foreclosure Agents
- Alt-A Loans
- Data on Subprime and Alt-A
- Would You Leave Town?
- George Carlin, RIP
- Baby-Boomers and RE
- Short Sale vs. Loan Mod
- La Vina
- REO Counts
- When to Buy
- SD Foreclosures By Zip
- Higher-End Hurtin'
- San Diego = Bargain
- Acceptance, Part 2
- Acceptance
- May Sales and Prices
- Short Sale vs. REO
- REO #4
- REOs are Winning
- More from the REO Trail
- Tighter Underwriting
- Foreclosure Agents Update
- Are Banks Holding Back?
- May Sales and Prices
- Thanks Again, Sandicor
- MLS Sales vs. Foreclosures
- Neg-Am, Goosed
- Neg-Am Reset Update
- Primer for Sellers
- Tempo 3 vs. Tempo 5
- Boys and Girls Club of Carlsbad
- Bulk Sales
- Higher-End Foreclosure Update
- What's Your Prediction?
- Stale Coffee
- Insurance Update
- Carlsbad Same-House Sales, May
- Oceanside, Then and Now
- Carlsbad Mello-Roos
- Carlsbad Schools Budget Change
- How Many Motivated Sellers?
- Mixed Messages
- Property Tax Reductions
- Next Governor?
- Auction Results - Preliminary
- Foreclosure Scam Busted
- Seller Concerns About Financing
- Shrinking Spring Kick
- NAR Forecast
- Same-House Sales 92130
- April Stats, SoCal
- REO Roundup
- More From the REO Trail
- Publicizing Offer Prices & Fiduciary
- Actives/Pendings + YOY April Sales
- Mortgage Rates
- First REO Listing
- April Pricing
- Trouble Brewing?
- Jenae Update
- Foreclosure Agents
- Whatever Happened To......
- Creeping Up the Ladder
- Downtown SD Condos Update
- Barratt Update
- Notforlonga
- LCV School Site
- HUD Foreclosures
- Spring Fizzle, Higher End
- Coastal - What's the Problem?
- A Bad March
- La Costa Valley School Site
- Winner of US Open Tix
- Live on the REO Trail
- Barratt Update
- One-Month Listing
- Million-Dollar Market
- Potential Flip?
- Sales and Price Check
- Actives/Pendings Comparison
- Shark Bite Morning After
- On the REO Trail
- Deficiency Judgments
- Lopez Sentenced on Mortgage Fraud
- Wahoooo
- San Elijo Hills Count
- Changes in Mortgage Business
- Pending Action
- Same-House Sales, Carlsbad
- Foreclosure-Notice Counts
- REO-List Format Questions
- Foreclosure-Agents Update
- Red Hot Sliver
- Worst in SoCal
- Lis Pendens Filed Against Barratt
- Actives/Solds by Price Range
- Auction Report
- New Listings vs. Closings
- Foreclosures vs. Sales
- Realtor Wins Carlsbad case
- More Pyscho Babble
- Vacant Lots/Custom Homes
- More Texture
- REOs Coming to Market
- Property Tax Relief
- REO Inventory
- Finally - Fewer Licensees
- Flipperooski - PEND
- SD Auction This Saturday
- FHA No Money Down
- REO Samples
- Current 'Bottom'
- 31 Offers
- Coming Soon in Carlsbad
- March Listings vs. Sales
- Actives/Pendings - April 4th
- US Open Tickets Contest
- Flipperooski
- Carlsbad Oceanfront Hotel
- "Back to Bene"
- Lenders Tightening Further
- Fire Insurance on Canyons
- Carmel Valley 1Q08
- Same-House Sales, 92130
- Granny Flats
- LCV Middle School Property?
- Does More Traffic Mean Anything?
- Preview of March Sales
- Non-Owner Occupied
- Somber Reminder
- No Radio
- Wild, Wild West
- California Living!
- Upcoming Auction
- Wow
- Let Foreigners Help?
- Buyers' Financing Choices
- Banking Crisis Chart
- Coming Soon - Carlsbad
- Contest Update
- 'Bottomseeker' Formula
- Root of Mortgage Mess
- My Thoughts
- Keep, Rent, or Dump
- REOs Off-Peak Pricing
- Foreclosure Agents Update
- SD House Talk Radio Show
- Market Snapshot Summary
- Rental Scam
- Market Snapshot 3
- Market Snapshot 2
- Market Snapshot
- Padres Tickets Contest
- February Sales
- Dick Says Lower Rates
- Blog 2.0
- New Look
- Deutsche REO List
- Coming Soon
- Motivated - Make Offer!
- Deficiency Judgement?
- Market Improvment?
- REO Inventory by Bank
- SD County Mo. Sales
- Billion Here, Billion There...
- Stella
- Collateral Damage
- Million-Dollar REOs
- Same-House Sales Enc/CV
- Legal Update
- Same-House Sales, Carlsbad
- HOA & Mello-Roos Fees
- RE Market Fix
- US Open Ticket Contest
- Good Cause
- How To Short Sale
- Pacesetters Deluxe
- Mortgage Rates Slammed
- Highland/CVD
- Trustee's Sales? No Rush
- Million-Dollar Market
- Baby Boomers and RE
- Actives/Pendings
- Benefits for NAR Members
- More Inventory
- What Would You Like?
- Real Estate and Water
- REO Action
- Lenders to Halt Foreclosures
- Indigestion Graph
- Now You Said It
- Lower Early and Often (SP:LP)
- Aviara Around 2003 Prices
- I Hate Booties
- January Sales - Examples
- Foreclosures Up (Again)
- January Buyers/Jim Ratio
- Year-Over-Year
- Good Guy Story
- Mortgage Fraud Penalty
- Searching for Market Value
- Foreclosure Website
- DH Stats
- Just Trying To Help....
- How Much Below Last Sale?
- Short Sale Anonymous
- Didn't Take Long
- 4th Quarter Contest
- Happy Birthday Exene
- Here They Come
- High-End Slinky
- Cramer Buying?
- Relative Market Health
- "Stolen Equity"
- Stimulus Derailment Possible?
- Sales Fall YOY
- More from the NC Times
- Oceanside Foreclosure Story
- Inflection Point/Capitulation
- Coming Soon
- Olivenhain Update
- Same House Sales, Jan.
- Mortgage after Foreclosure
- Realtor Malpractice?
- Torrey Pines Golf Contest
- Exchange Properties
- Crash Course Ahead (?)
- Chargers vs. Pats
- Same Ol', Same Ol'
- Today's Rates
- Mass Upheaval
- Best Time To Sell - Feb.
- This Week's Sellers
- LCV Seller Responds
- Transparency For, Well, Um...
- U-T Headlines
- Foreclosure Agents, 2008
- Another Perspective
- Mortgage Rates Dropping
- 1Q08 Contest Guesses
- Studying The Human Condition
- Presidential House Pics
- 1st Quarter Contest
- REO Dec. Blowout?
- REO Sales in 2007
- Dec. Prices/Sales
- Sales Scorecard
- Selling Is Easy
- Hot Buy Part 2
- Hot Buy!
- Total Annual Volume
- First Glimpse
- C-wide REOs
- SMC Prediction
- Agent Productivity
- Can't Argue With Math
- Primer for Sellers
- 2008 Forecasts
- Realtor Photos
- 30 in 30
- Markers/Guideposts
- The New Age
- Mortgage Debt Relief
- Open House Today
- Here Comes 2008!
- Coffee Bet 2
- Follow-Ups
- Merry Christmas Everyone!
- Oceanside Redevelopment
- Houses Around $550,000
- John & Lynda
- REO Departments
- This Week's REOs
- Bailout Plan
- 600 Helped So Far
- La Costa Oaks Review
- Hank's Gems
- More on November Sales
- Not My Bumper
- More Choices Coming!
- Housing Bubble Strategy
- Auction Dud
- SD Monthly Listings/Sales
- Retainer Fee for Agents
- Listing Agent Tricks
- Title Implode-O-Meter
- Foreclosure-Agents
- Big-Money Shopping
- Dec. Remarkables
- OpenMLS Getting Closer?
- Let's Auction!
- Countrywide Update
- # of I/O & Neg-Ams
- Typical of Today's Market
- November Sales (+Jimsrank)
- The Last Argument
- The Old Ranch
- Realtor Glossary
- More Credit Scams
- How Many Are There?
- Bulk Sale Update
- Neg-Ams Are Next
- Carry On
- Final Same-House Sales
- Times Are A-Changin'
- Next Year's Market
- Under Fire
- Bubble Who?
- Value-Range Marketing
- More New Pendings
- Subprime Rate Freeze
- Tale of Two Cities
- Presidential Pads
- It's Just a Flesh Wound
- MLS Police (again)
- 92130 Pricing vs. Peak
- What Should Agents Do?
- Why Make Offers
- Foreign Currency to Help?
- Comments On
- SD Mortgage Fraud
- Let's Make a Deal!
- Foreclosure Agents Update
- Buyer Representation
- Builder's Voodoo Accounting
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- 4751 Beachwood, Carlsbad
- Lockboxes Galore
- Anti-Broker Coop
- Spring Sprint?
- Tread Carefully
- 2nd Coffee Bet
- FBI at Work
- Carlsbad Desalination Plant
- Same-House Sales
- New Golf Contest
- No U Ball (Yet)
- Undercutter's Ball 2
- Undercutter's Ball
- State of the Market
- Actives/Pendings Update
- Real Advice
- Troop Support
- California Architecture
- Another Retirement Home
- More on Foreclosure-Agents
- Padres Tickets Contest Wrap
- Case-Shiller, 3 Tiers
- October Sales
- REOs - Downtown
- Torrey...or Trorrey?
- Change of Course
- Who's #1?
- What Now? 4Q07 Update
- Sales Plummeting
- San Diego Crime Data
- San Diego REOs
- How Buyers See LCV
- Paging DR
- REOs vs. MLS Sales
- Sounds Like A Lot
- Nowhere to Turn
- Happy Halloween
- Case-Shiller
- Chances of Selling Today
- Nobody Knows
- Pictures Enabled?
- High-End Foreclosures
- Foreclosure Agents Update
- MLS Gestapo
- Disaster Capitalism
- Sales Worse Than REOs
- Fire Rentals
- Recent Financing Choices
- San Diego Fire, Thursday
- Back to Housing
- RSF Still Closed 9am
- San Diego Fire 4
- San Diego Fire III
- RSF Rentals
- San Diego Fire II
- San Diego Fire
- Fire Updates
- Superior Homes in Review
- Why Buy a House Now?
- Scattershot
- Waiting to Sell?
- Sundowner Tonight
- Under the Surface
- Random Statistics
- Foreclosures vs. MLS Sales
- Business Week Blog
- Nephew Mike
- More Psycho-Babble
- More Nibblin's
- Junk Mortgages 101
- October Sales Dip
- Happy 50th!
- All-County Stats
- Let's Make a Deal!
- Will They Make It?
- Sales vs. Pendings
- Forgive and Forget
- Decent Foreclosures
- Foreclosures vs. Sales
- September Struggled
- Difference a Few Years Makes
- Reality, Part 2 (92101 condos)
- Oceanside Foreclosure Check
- Carlsbad Snapshot
- US Open Contestants
- Reality, Part 1
- San Diego Trustee Sales
- Phoenix/LA Woman
- Real Estate Bloggers
- September Sales in SD
- Padres Wrap-Up
- 4th Quarter Contest Data
- Contest Problem
- Carlsbad Squish
- Squish-Down Underway
- 4th Quarter Sales Contest
- Another Sign
- 69% Stubborn
- Unpopular Americans
- August Numbers
- REOs Not Listed
- Bubbleinfo 2-Year
- Inventory Trends
- Active/Pendings Stats
- Smart Selling
- Foreclosure Agents' Results
- Peek at 4Q07
- More Window Dressing
- Off Topic - Family
- Months' Supply
- Understatement of Year
- Projections for 2007
- Coffee Bet, Results
- Selling Environment
- Another Auction House
- Far-Fetched?
- Big December
- Nicer REOs
- Next Notch Down....
- Schumer to the Rescue!
- Ouch
- SoCal Sales
- Voting - The Unsolds
- Coffee Bet Voting
- Re-Investing
- 'Vibrant Savings'
- Weekly Closings
- Trickle-Down Market
- August Preview
- Closed Sales First 8 Months
- High-End Results
- Last Third of 2007
- House-Hunting Tips
- Rent = PITI Chart
- Sign of Times
- Two-Year Meltdown
- The Decider
- Be Prepared
- More Scores
- The Real Score
- Reverse Auction
- Recent-Sales Report
- McMansion Killer
- Buying a Foreclosure?
- Short Sale Info
- Acceptable Bailouts?
- Income=How Much Sales Price?
- Interpreting ARM-Reset Chart
- Foreclosure-Agent Stats II
- Jim Ratio Update
- Auction Thud
- Carmel Valley Foreclosures
- First-Time Homebuyers Loan
- August 1-15
- "Like 1985"
- Agent Hiring and Commissions
- Wed Rock Blogging - VH
- Jumbo Rates Went Up
- What is Selling?
- More Psycho-Babble
- El Cortez Photos
- Bubbleinfo for Sellers
- Carmel Valley Update
- Foreclosures vs. Rest
- Women Rule the RE World
- Thank You Robert!!
- Chula Vista on NPR
- What is this RSF Place Anyway?
- There Is No Reason to Panic
- La Jolla to Encinitas Ratios
- Market Change, Last 3 mo.
- Mortgage Update
- Barry Contest Winner!
- Same Result
- Rockin East LA Style
- Bailing Out
- Buying a Home Today
- Barry Contest Update
- 'Klinge' pronounced
- NAR - Please Stop
- Tips for Homeowners
- International Fallout
- Barry Contest
- Now Pending
- Figuring How Much to Pay
- Value-Range Marketing
- Here He Goes Again
- Wednesday Rock Show
- Comp-Busters
- SD No. County Coastal
- San Diego County Sales
- Late Summer Push
- First-time Homebuyers
- Foreclosure Tally by Area
- Coffee Update - Summer
- Bear Stearns Debacle
- Terabitz.com
- Johnny K.
- June Numbers
- U-T Remarks
- Spotlight on Tramonto
- Same-House Sales, Reg.
- Same-House Sales, Lux
- Accuracy in Numbers
- Not Just Oceanside...
- Don't Raise Your Price
- Credit Tightening For All
- Detente
- Clerks Take Notice
- 'Bottom' Talk
- HSBC Count
- Sydney, Australia
- Oceanside Centipede
- DOM Deleted
- Guts & Blood
- North Coastal vs. Overall
- Wednesday Rockin'
- Spring Thud
- Real Estate Scams
- Buyer Testimonial
- Actives/Pendings Rankings
- "The Ranch"
- Carmel Valley Analysis - June
- NAR President Email
- Guerilla Real Estate
- San Diego Population
- Broker's Meeting Update
- You're A True San Diegan...
- Wednesday Rock
- Focus on Best Areas
- Architectural Gem
- Inventory/Sales Slowing
- The Train is Leaving.....
- Creeping Upward
- Meltdown In Progress
- Some Days You Need The Wife
- B-S Mortgage Hedge Fund
- The "F" Word
- Downtown SD Revisited
- Wednesday Rock Blogging
- FENG Panel Discussion
- Short Sale Report
- My Favorite Martian
- Happy Father's Day
- Buyer's Guide
- What's In Store?
- Mortgage Fraud Bust
- More Candidates
- Lowball Longshots
- Wednesday Rock Blogging
- C.A.R. Forecast
- Escrows
- Playoffs Contest Help
- Foreclosure-Agent Stats
- Playoffs Contest
- Expired Listings
- Mortgage Cheaters
- FICO Scores & Mistakes
- Arrowood
- Smoke Smeller
- First Five Months - Inland
- First Five Months
- Wednesday Blues
- Last Five Weeks
- Last Time Around
- CUI
- "Nearing the Bottom"
- Carmel Valley New Homes
- Spring Klunk
- More Auctions
- Median Pricing/No. of Sales
- Wednesday Rock Blogging
- Mr. Lucky
- The Big Split
- Mega-Analysis
- Ultra-High End
- Coffee Bet Update
- Don't Get Giddy
- Spring Sputter
- American Idols
- Where to Move To?
- Make It Happen!
- U-T Article on Discounters
- Jim Ratio Update
- Goodbye Powayseller
- Olde Carlsbad Wrap-Up
- Future Values
- Qualifying the Comps
- Seller's Disease
- Today's Article
- Have Gun, Shoot Foot
- Change Is Good!
- 60 Minutes/Redfin
- Carmel Valley Heat
- Same-House Sales MAY 07
- Spring Sales OK
- Global Warming and RE
- Getting The Price Right
- DOM Death Spiral 2
- "DOM Death Spiral"
- Prayers Aren't Enough
- May Auctions
- Real Estate Forecasts
- April Sales
- Lereah Moves to Move
- Proper Evaluations
- Flopping Flippers in Vegas
- Sandicor Responds
- Sellers vs. Buyers
- Carlsbad Trendsetters?
- Carlsbad Country Club 2
- Carlsbad Trends
- Waterfront in Carlsbad
- Market Spot Check
- Be First
- Fall-Out Ratio
- Tailing Away
- Sell in 30 Days
- Strict Code of Ethics
- Closed Sales in March
- Bad Listing Agent?
- Open Sat & Sun 12-5pm
- Oceanside, CA 92057
- Move-Up Results
- Move-Up Hypothesis
- Carlsbad Country Club
- Million-Dollar Comfortable?
- SD Million-Dollar Market
- State of Foreclosures
- Sellers' Spring Summary
- Today's Buyers' Agents
- Surges of Sellers
- Fraud Fall-Out
- Not At 2003 Pricing Yet
- Get Good Help!
- More Steady Noise
- Hanging On
- Zillow vs. Cyberhomes
- Market Picking Up?
- Current Read on SD Market
- Closing Costs
- Homicide Financing
- Carlsbad Higher-End
- Parking Brake Optional
- Carlsbad Graphs
- Market Explanations
- Sellers - fix 'em up before selling!
- Vista Hacienda
- Olde Carlsbad Gem
- The Big Freeze-Up
- Sub-Prime Squish?
- Jim TV - First Interview
- Quiggleme.com - the Real NEW
- Countrywide 100% Financing
- Rancho Santa Fe - Different?
- Jim TV
- Logs on the Fire
- "Spring Kick" Liftoff?
- Move-Up Market?
- More 100% Financing Data
- 100% Financing Results
- Carlsbad February Buyers
- Carlsbad Market is Cooking
- Landlord Gets Foreclosed
- SD Listings, Jan & Feb
- What Do Buyers Want?
- SD Sales Down 17%
- Market Survey
- HSBC REO Sales
- HSBC REOs in SD
- $1 Billion Bad Loans Per Mo.
- SD Tax Sale Report
- Thursday Grab Bag
- Hot February
- How to Handle Multiple Offers
- Buck Up
- Open House Update
- Sales Dropping in SD
- What Happened to the Sellers?
- Market Snapshot
- Is Market Getting Better?
- Listing Agents, Part 1
- Outwit the Competition
- January Sales Count
- He's Been Right So Far...
- Actives/Pendings Explanation
- Question on Buying/Pricing
- Do RE Prices ALWAYS Go Up?
- Total Listings in SD for Jan '07
- MBS Bag-Holders
- Market Hot Spot
- Who Are The Buyers?
- January Numbers, Revised
- January Numbers
- Higher Rates Ahead?
- Monthly Listing Count for SD County
- January Listings in SD
- Foreclosure Poll
- Million-Dollar Market
- One-Story, Good Schools
- More Condos in Carlsbad
- Still Time to Get Out
- No Problem, Just Refi
- SD County Market Check
- Tomorrow They Will Come
- January Market Check
- "Motivated"? Prove It
- North SD Coastal, Low-end
- San Diego County Jan 1-18
- Don't Try This at Home
- To Fellow Realtors
- Update on Pops
- Signs of "The Bottom"
- Sale-O-Meter
- Inventory Moderating?
- Award-Winning Bubbleinfo
- More Evidence
- How Could the Market Survive?
- Today's Hot Buys in the $800,000s
- Foreclosure Tour
- Pricing Variables
- 2nd Half Recovery?
- High-End Struggle
- FSBO check
- Looks Like Turbulence
- The OC comes to SD
- County Update
- December Sales in Carlsbad,CA
- SD vs. North County Coastal
- The First Two Days in SD
- When to Sell in 2007
- List Price Accuracy Tester
- Selling in 2007
- 2007 Predictions
- Top Stories of 2006
- December Sales
- Where to Find the Great Buys
- Thinking of Selling?
- Short Sale Report
- December Update
- Slinky vs. SquishDown
- Recent Solds in Carlsbad
- Guaranteed Sale
- Get to the Real Truth
- Oceanside Sales Report - Nov.
- Zillow Update
- Carlsbad Foreclosure Update
- December Stats
- How Much Are Agents Worth?
- OpenMLS (sorta)
- November Sales & Price Check
- Questions for Realtors
- FNM closes near 52-week high
- The MLS Militia/Zillow
- Panic Contest
- Learn From Others
- "I'm Not Giving It Away!"
- No Normal Here
- Soft Landing, Keep Moving...
- Carlsbad, Oceanside, and Vista Appreciation
- Monthly Sales Update
- Sellers' Advisory
- 2007 Projection - First 30 days
- Market Snapshot
- Carlsbad RE Standoff
- Inventory/Sales Relationship
- Five Weeks From 2007
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Update on La Costa condo flip
- Foreclosure Flood
- Ask A Question
- Unprecedented Failure
- Adopt A Soldier
- I Am Dumbfounded
- Market Still Breathing
- Reality Check
- Real DOM
- What Besides Median Price?
- Why Sell Now?
- Get Better Data
- New vs. Existing Home Sales
- Carlsbad, Oceanside, and Vista
- Hiring a Realtor
- No Spring Kick in 2007
- Experimental RE Gauge
- Expanded Measurement
- Carlsbad Real Estate in October
- Mean Reversion
- Halloween Comparisons
- How Much Longer?
- Higher Taxes Coming
- Commissions/Flat fee
- Let's Walk the Walk
- New look
- October Update
- Mortgage Guidelines - Their Impact
- Mortgage Guidelines Update
- Price 'Em Right
- Business vs. Emotional
- Property Tax Bills Arrive
- News of Prices Dropping? It's Coming
- Standoff Continues
- Compare Agents Carefully
- Dual Agency
- Sales by Price Range
- Five Stages of Seller Grief
- Steady Slow in October
- No Time To Panic
- Should Sellers Hold-Out?
- It's Hard to Move Down, Price-wise
- One-Story vs. Two-Story
- How are Buyers Financing in Today's Market?
- September Final Sales Count
- CAN Sellers Lower Their Price?
- Who is Buying Today?
- Buy the Best, and Forget the Rest
- Want More Evidence?
- Part Three - The Baby-Boomer Dilemma
- Part 2 - Can't Sell, and Thinking of Renting It?
- Part One - Sell Your Rental Properties?
- Blow $50,000 Today!
- Updates on Previous Stories
- Drop-off in the Fourth Quarter
- REO Results
- First 25 Days of the Month
- Foreclosures - Where'd They Go?
- Foreclosure report
- First Anniversary
- AUCTION! Part 2
- Real Estate Tips on Video
- View Restrictions
- Auctions - Do They Work?
- AUCTION!
- A little slowdown.....
- Rate of Change
- Superior Properties
- Grand Poobah of Predictions
- Where's the bottom, part 2
- Priced to Sit
- Where's the bottom?
- 13 days into the month
- Update on Pops
- 'Days on Market' is cooked up
- Summary for those listed over $1,000,000
- How to Lose $1,000,000 (or so)
- August Final Stats
- Market Survey - Oceanside
- Market Survey - Carlsbad
- Evidence of Market Conditions
- Will We SEE Prices Drop?
- First Eight Months of the Year
- September 1st math check
- Flood of Foreclosures
- Getting the Facts Out
- Summer winding down... or up?
- Why Use an Agent When Buying?
- "Power-FSBO" Success Rate
- Buy - When Everyone Else Isn't
- August Numbers
- The Silent Pain
- Size of Inventory
- Internet Realtors
- Looking for more evidence
- Checkpoints for the Rest of Year
- Banks tightening yet?
- August update
- July's cost per square foot
- What's a Buyers' Market?
- July New Pendings
- July 2006 Sales
- Foreclosures Up (?)
- Price Right, or No Offers
- Buying Strategy Tip #3
- Buying Strategy Tip #2
- Buying Strategy Tip #1
- Inventory Moderating
- July Closed Sales (So Far)
- "Priced to Sell"
- New Pendings - July '06
- Rates at Historical Highs
- Bank Bailout Inevitable?
- Back to Normal? No Way
- Oceanside test case, revisited
- Graph of SD County Sales
- Bressi update
- July update
- New Pendings, July 1-20
- Your Value, minus 20%
- July 1-15
- Underwriting Guidelines - Can We Compromise?
- Somebody Better Say Something
- Reader Questions
- Scumbag Realty
- Whoops
- Oceanside test case
- June 2006 sales and prices
- Selling Real Estate is an Individual Sport
- Recent Comments
- Number of Sales, First Half of 2006
- Selling Successfully in this Market
- The second half of 2006
- Bressi Boondoogle, Part 2
- Bressi Boondoogle
- Impact of higher interest rates
- The Slow-Steady
- Measuring the 'Homes Not Selling'
- June 1-19 stats
- Price Reductions
- Pops
- Nice little rally
- Trouble, Part 3
- Trouble, Part 2
- How many are in trouble now?
- Test the market
- The Big Split - the Flight to Quality
- May sales - final count
- Stat of the day, part two
- Closed sales - first five months
- May numbers
- More on $/sf
- Market check
- Things that could turn the bubble around
- May Update
- Inventory Count
- Zillow? How about 'Jimbo' (part two)
- Mello-Roos, and other extra monthly costs
- How much equity in new-home purchases?
- Are prices a lagging indicator?
- The first 15 days of the month
- The million-dollar-plus market, revisited
- For-Sale-By-Owner update
- Prices drop, market gets better
- When to Buy
- For those who are keeping score.......
- April stats
- Sellers - Change Your Focus
- What's Happening with Prices?
- San Diego County stats
- "Normal" market?
- Steady slow?
- April sales are slowing down a bit
- A Great Example of Today's Marketplace
- How many new agents are out there?
- More jimjamalama
- Does the market have to go down?
- Finally, a seller who dumped on price
- How to NOT sell your house
- The SD Union-Tribune - what a joke
- 50% to 80% off?
- Last count on the March kick
- More on closing ratio
- First Quarter
- First quarter sales
- Another peak behind the curtain
- Another March Update
- Cutting Out the Middleman
- Well now I said it
- March Update
- Market Summary - March 2006
- History Day
- Timeline of the Bubble
- How I'd change the real estate business
- The 1% commission
- Adjustable-rate loans....Exotic or Deadly?
- Zillow? How about 'Jimbo'
- I have my crystal ball........
- FSBO update 2
- For-Sale-By-Owner Update
- Preparing Your House For Sale
- More jimjamalama today
- Days on market
- Report card - the first 43 days of 2006
- Carlsbad beach buy!
- The "big squish-down" Feb. 8th
- Here we go again......
- How motivated are sellers?
- January 2006 statistics
- What's coming down the road.......
- "How come nobody's making an offer?"
- Trickle up?
- For Sale By Owner? Does it Work?
- Over $1 million in South Carlsbad
- Historical comparison Nov. 23 - Jan. 23
- Closings in January
- My Purpose Here
- The vacant properties
- The day the market turned (?)
- First 17 days of Jan. & real estate psychology
- A few sales this weekend, but..........
- Can I have your attention please...please?.....PLEASE!
- Let's really test the market, shall we?
- Report from the Realtor meeting today (January 11, 2006)
- Statistics - first two weeks of January, 2006
- We need better measuring tools
- There's a bargain every day
- You can't win if you don't play
- Where's the bottom?
- Are there motivated sellers?
- Market summary, in a nutshell
- Selling? You need a great listing agent
- My prediction for 2006
- I'm a buyer, should I wait?
- Don't Prices Have to Go Down?
- Local market summary (as of Dec 11, 2005)
- How does your realtor feel about the bubble?
- Do you think: "Selling homes is easy"?
- Median income/Median price baloney
- Comparing Agents - What's the Difference?
- Inventory compared to last year
- What will sellers do?
- Reader responses
- Buy Now?
- Selling in this market
- Home is a Castle
- 20-25% appreciation per year - how can that happen?
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