October 2007

New California Law Bans Appraisal Commissions

October 8, 2007

These news snippets below are from a Daily Real Estate News digest that I receive. Looks like California is getting serious about putting the skids to some of the practices that led to the crazy real estate price inflation in their state. Namely, over valued appraisals and under qualified buyers purchasing those over valued homes. [...]

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Traders Bet That Home Prices Will Fall 10%

October 4, 2007

This is interesting. Traders can now bet on future housing index prices. I’m glad Austin isn’t on this list below of the 10 metro areas expected to see falling prices. And I’m not sure how much traders can be trusted to accurately predict the real estate market, but I found the article interesting nonetheless. Traders [...]

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Inspection items – what’s wrong with your home?

October 3, 2007

One of the inspectors we use, Bob Petersen at Precision Inspection had the published following newsletter article, which he said I could republish hear on my blog. WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOUR HOME? by Bob Petersen I have to chuckle whenever I enter a home for an inspection and either the agent or owner informs me [...]

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