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Huge REO in Lafayette
By gregpfielding  23 comments, latest 5 hours ago:
FortWayne says Spanish style, is that the right term for this? My wife always liked those kinds of houses. That's a pretty high HOA fee, like a highway robbery though.

Lamorinda Home Prices Back Above Peak Levels
By gregpfielding  73 comments, latest 1 month ago:
FunTime says I don't think I've ever been to the places in the article. A co-worker lived in Danville, so I've heard of it.

No surprise Some Markets Are Burning
By gregpfielding in Oakland CA 94610   posted 1 month ago:
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The 2012 Inventory Collapse
By gregpfielding  170 comments, latest 2 months ago:
gregpfielding says robertoaribas says Yes, longer term we are just guessing. However, short to medium turn, no guessing necessary. Completely agree. Prices are going to rally here in the Bay Area at least through this...

Don't Expect Inventory To Rise Anytime Soon
By gregpfielding  6 comments, latest 4 months ago:
Philistine says gbenson says show me a buyer who got a pocket listing recently Not us, that's for sure. We were harassed by all manner of used house salesmen, and notta one had a listing...

It’s An Unbelievably Good Time to Sell
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   157 comments, latest 5 months ago:
RentingForHalfTheCost says SFace says gregpfielding says It's true. Andrew's prediction (which I shared), didn't come to pass. The market is far from fundamentals. It's your prediction as you signed off on it. Sorry, but saying...

Gregs 2013 Bay Area Real Estate Forecast
By gregpfielding  4 comments, latest 5 months ago:
E-man says gregpfielding says Starter homes or condos in places like Concord, Livermore, or Antioch. What was $250,000 2 years ago is $350,000 right now. What was $180,000 is now $250,000. These numbers are comparable...

Danville House Price History By Price Tier
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   17 comments, latest 6 months ago:
E-man says I'm looking out my windows and within a 5 miles radius I see Cisco, SanDisk, Western Digital, Hitachi, LSI, Maxtor, Flextronics, Adaltec, KLAC, JDSU, Ericson, Broadcom, Yahoo, Intersil, Seagate, Xicor, just to name...

Wells Fargo Peddling Down Payment Assistance Crack
By gregpfielding  4 comments, latest 6 months ago:
E-man says If it were me, I would use the $20k, put 3.5% down payment, and obtain a $500k mortgage with an FHA loan. Tell me the flaw in my plan if I were a...

Reconsidering the Housing Crisis
By gregpfielding  posted 7 months ago:
I posted this opus about a year ago and all of these issues are still relevant, perhaps even more so as government tinkering has only gotten worse... http://bayarearealestatetrends

San Francisco Case Shiller House Price Chart
By gregpfielding  10 comments, latest 7 months ago:
Trivial says LiarWatch says wave9x says I was looking to buy my first house in the first half of the year on the Peninsula, and this chart seems very conservative compared to what I experienced...

“I haven’t seen a single move-up buyer this year”
By gregpfielding  41 comments, latest 7 months ago:
B.A.C.A.H. says E-man, Maybe you didn't read Mauldin's stuff very closely. I would not call him a perma bear, not even a bear. What he writes about the future of the USA is optimistic, about...

Why is out inventory of homes for sale so low?
By gregpfielding  32 comments, latest 9 months ago:
E-man says CDon says Its worth nothing BTW that this chart above is in nominal terms. In real terms, yes, as BMW man noted, the guy who waited probably got a better deal because his...

How Good Was My Advice?
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   14 comments, latest 9 months ago:
American in Japan says I miss Surfer-X...

Is the Housing Recovery Losing Steam?
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   10 comments, latest 10 months ago:
TMAC54 says I need to "RECOVER" from a revelation. The only entities using the "R" word stand to profit from artifice confidence building. Realtors, Banksters, Gubmint, Flippers etc.

Bay Area Housing Inventory Down Over 60 Percent
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   6 comments, latest 1 year ago:
tannenbaum says 2004, just 8 short years ago, was almost the peak of an era of another form of market distortion - namely financing. All those crazy mortgages that were peddled then but you almost...

The East Bay is on Fire
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   177 comments, latest 1 year ago:
Mark D says well if you look at the bums living under the freeway underpass every morning on the way to work, most are white. so maybe those asians' mouths were open because they were...

32 Offers...Are We In A Bubble Again?
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   32 comments, latest 1 year ago:
gregpfielding says No typo, 32 offers. 5 home for sale.. 5 buyers.. each buyer puts 2-3 bids on different homes.. same 5 buyers create 15 or more bids chasing same 5 homes... really a false...

Untenable Tenure
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   posted 1 year ago:
http://bayarearealestatetrends "I’m not sure which blows me away more: the insane statistic or the fact the NAR actually reported it. Remember when most homeowners moved on average every six or seven years? Guess what… now...

Are Bay Area Home Prices Going Up Again? What’s Going On Here?
By gregpfielding in Danville CA 94526   posted 1 year ago:
http://bayarearealestatetrends In order to decide if this is “the” bottom for housing prices that we’ve all been waiting for, we have to put where we are at in proper context. We know that Supply and...


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