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The A-B-C?s and 1-2-3?s of Home Staging
2008-05-05 10:42:00 I often now receive inquires about home staging, from home sellers all over the country, that typically start by asking a question such as, “Can you give me a little information on how staging works and what staging a home costs?” Since so many start their inquiry with the same question, I thought it would ... More About: Home , Staging
Non-Disclosure, misrepresentation and other real estate misadventures
2008-05-05 07:05:00 Our local news/entertainment magazine had a heartwarming story about Zillow and their “Make Me Move” feature. Some guy was able to sell his house for significantly more than it was worth. Capitol Hill Triangle seems to think it was poor form not to disclose that the seller was an ex-Zillow employee. And ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real , Disclosure
Key Real Estate Market Factors
2008-05-04 13:04:00 as they effect Canadian housing Mortgage Rates Mortgage rates have moved slightly higher over the past year. This rise, in conjunction with higher house prices, has and will continue to push mortgage carrying costs higher. As a result, this will ease housing demand, particularly for first-time buyers. Employment A record share of Canadians continue to be employed, ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real Estate Market , Market , Real
Sponsored Review: Mortgage Loan Calculator
2008-05-04 04:49:00 Here’s a sponsored review by Blown Mortgage about the Mortgage Loan Calculator Web site and Free mortgage widget. Blown Mortgage provides sponsored reviews to companies who wish to promote their services to our readers. You can learn more about a sponsored review from Blown Mortgage here. What do you get when you cross Web 2.0 with ... More About: Review , Sponsored
Weekend Blog Linkage
2008-05-04 04:15:00 Here’s the weekly collection of the internet’s greatest hits (so to speak) from the past week. Some have something to do with San Francisco Real Estate, and some don’t even come close to being SF Real Estate related. Expect these to pop up sometime during the weekend - as my time permits. Enjoy! The Tenant Terrorizers ... More About: Blog , Weekend , Linkage
CMHC is bullish on Vacancy Rates across Canada
2008-05-03 16:32:00 CMHC comments on the rental market in Canada The vacancy rate across the major centres in Canada was unchanged at 2.6 per cent in 2007. Over the last year, demand remained relatively strong given a solid employment growth, particularly for the younger age groups. Overall net migration was high last year which fuelled demand for rental ... More About: Bullish , Rates , Vacancy
Current Ontario Canada Mortage Interest Rates
2008-04-25 10:45:00 The table below shows current posted and possible mortgage interest rates in Ontario . You will note that most lenders are offering .5% off the Bank Prime Rate for Variable Rate mortgages. The rate drop game continues. Although the prime rate has dropped about 1.5% over the past 6 to 8 months, the ... More About: Canada , Interest Rates , Current , Interest
Turn back the clock: the BS from 2004-05
2008-04-25 10:00:00 A Blown Mortgage reader sent me a copy of a report published in 2004-2005 titled America’s Home Forecast: The Next Decade for Housing and Mortgage Finance (pdf) that portends the continued growth of the US housing market between 2004-2013 at an annualized rate of 5-6% depending on supply/demand issues. This report is a great ... More About: Clock , Back , Turn
Open Shutter to the Past: San Francisco in Pictures - Cabrillo Elementary S
2008-04-25 06:56:00 Welcome back to Photo Friday - my little way of taking a break from San Francisco Real Estate and instead blogging about our great City’s past instead. All photos are published with permission from the San Francisco History Center and San Francisco Public Library. This week’s post was inspired by the upcoming Navigating Public Schools Seminar ... More About: Pictures , Open , Past , Shutter
Google launches Website Optimizer
2008-04-25 05:21:00 Google has taken the beta label off a project that is significantly younger than Gmail, which remains in beta. Google Website Optimizer has been available to AdWords customers for the past year, but now the company is making it available to anyone who wants to test out different web site layouts. Basically, the tool lets you ... More About: Google
Sample stated loan research shows 3 out of 5 inflated income at least 50%
2008-04-25 03:45:00 Want to know why stated income loans are called liar loans? Because people lie on stated income loans. Not just some people, some of the time and by some little exaggeration. It’s most of the people, most of the time by mostly large exaggerations. Take a look at this Slate article ... More About: Research , Loan , Income , Sample
Correcting the Weighted Average in the Redfin Advantage
2008-04-24 18:15:00 Redfin reported on the Redfin Advantage last month, analyzing 65,242 records from the Multiple Listing Services that brokers use to share listing data in the Bay Area and Seattle. Our goal was to understand whether Redfin customers fared as well as customers of traditional brokers in their negotiations, so we compared the price our customers ... More About: Redfin , Average
First-time buyers remain challenged
2008-04-24 09:29:00 While higher housing values and tight inventory levels have hampered home-buying activity so far this year, longer amortization periods and alternative housing types have offset the impact on most major Canadian markets, according to a report released by RE/MAX. Despite a higher degree of frustration in the marketplace than in previous years, the RE/MAX Affordability Report ... More About: Time , Buyers , First Time
Been down so long looks like up to me
2008-04-24 07:18:00 Considering how bad the market is supposed to be, I sure am busy. I haven’t had time to write even though I’ve been trying to keep up with the news. Did you hear that LendingTree has told its customers that former employees helped unauthorized mortgage lenders hack into its systems and steal customer ... More About: Long
What does the recent drop in mortgage interest rates mean to you?
2008-04-23 17:17:00 What do the recent drop in interest rates mean to you? As everyone is by now aware, the Bank of Canada lowered their prime lending rate by 50 basis points yesterday bringing the rate down to 4.75%. This means that we are now seeing variable rates as low as 4.15%! While they have lowered the rate ... More About: Interest Rates , Mortgage , Interest , Recent , Rates
Lending Tree lead data stolen - do you know where your social security numb
2008-04-23 15:49:00 Talk about scary. We all knew that LowerMyBills.com and LendingTree.com provided for a ‘less-than-ideal’ customer experience as consumers got battered by hundreds of calls from rabid mortgage folks; but this announcement is just plain scary. Employees caught stealing data including consumer social security numbers at Lending Tree. The advent of ‘lead stealing’ from inside ... More About: Security , Social , Social Security , Data , Stolen
Bank of America Neuters Countrywide?
2008-04-22 13:44:00 CNN reports that Bank of America will eliminate all but the most sound mortgage products as it attempts to complete its takeover of Countrywide . Countrywide was made famous by its option ARM and other non-traditional products which have clearly back-fired. Which begs the question - why Countrywide mortgage at all? Bank of America ...
Interest Rates Bank of Canada cuts 50 points
2008-04-22 12:23:00 Bank of Canada Slashes Interest Rate Again! This could be the final cut for some time to come as the Bank of Canada cuts another 50 points off the key rate In a widely expected move, the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate by 50 basis points, or half a percentage point, on Tuesday? The ... More About: Interest Rates , Bank , Points
RE/MAX report Rising housing values and lack of inventory challenge first-t
2008-04-22 11:53:00 Rising housing values and lack of inventory challenge first-time buyers, says RE/MAX “Homeownership continues to be primary objective” Mississauga, ON (April 22, 2008) — While higher housing values and tight inventory levels have hampered home-buying activity so far this year, longer amortization periods and alternative housing types have offset the impact on most major markets across the ... More About: Report , Inventory , Housing , Challenge , Values
The Trillion Dollar Bailout
2008-04-22 05:28:00 If Fannie and Freddie fail the price tag is somewhere between $400 billion and a shade over a trillion of taxpayer money to bail them out. How do you like them apples? A trillion bucks? Big enough to sink the government’s AAA rating. Big enough to make LTCM look like child’s ... More About: Dollar , Bailout
Quantitative Easing - get ready for the new media buzzword
2008-04-22 05:06:00 Quantitative Easing. Get ready for those two words to dominate the press over the next 18 months as the Federal Reserve attempts to cut off the credit crunch. As the LIBOR stymies the efforts of Fed rate cuts they have limited arrows left in the quiver, and Quantitative Easing is going to look ... More About: Media , New Media , Buzzword , Ready , Get Ready
National City drops pants for $7 billion in liquidity
2008-04-22 04:56:00 National City took on $7 billion in additional capital at a 40% discount to market price, sending shares tumbling as the beleagured bank looks to shake off bad mortgage bets and make it through the crisis. National City was reportedly looking to sell itself and has now turned to opportunistic Corsair Capital. It’s ... More About: National , Pants , Billion
Where Are Mortgage Rates Headed in 2008?
2008-04-21 17:10:00 The beginning of the year brought us some declines on the mortgage scene - along with the addition of the strange new agency jumbo loan which covers the area between the traditional conforming loan of up to $417K but below a “real” jumbo loan which starts at $729K. Interest rates are historically low and while they’re ... More About: Mortgage , Rates , 2008
Boston Real Estate: Not Clinically Depressed, Just a Split Personality
2008-04-21 16:10:00 Redfin’s Chris Glew — Redfin Advantage essayist, Boston hockey fan and student of ancient Mexican turds — stopped another fur-flying meeting in its tracks last week with an arresting observation. He said that even in this slow real estate market, he could tell just by looking when a new listing was going to sell in ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real , Personality
BofA profit off 77% on $5 billion in loan-loss provisions
2008-04-21 13:12:00 Bank of America’s profit tanked a whopping 77% in the recently-closed quarter as the bank took on an additional $5 billion in credit-loss provisions. The company cited ongoing challenges to the consumer such as high debt, subprime mortgage-related issues and a faltering economy as reasons for concern for future quarters. Still the bank ... More About: Loan , Profit , Loss , Billion
Think Summer: How to Find Rentals before the Weather Heats Up
2008-04-21 08:25:00 Even though temperatures outside are still hovering near freezing and Fourth of July heat is months away, now is the time to find better oceanfront summer rentals on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, the New Jersey Shore or the Maine Coast. Families, couples and adults 55-years or older usually want different types of summer homes. Local agents ... More About: Weather , Summer , Find , Rentals
Top 10 Foreclosure Avoidance Tips
2008-04-21 07:56:00 Here are 10 suggestions to avoid foreclosure, both now and in the future. 1. Don’t ignore the problem. The further behind you become, the harder it will be to reinstate your loan and the more likely that you will lose your home. If you are behind on your mortgage payments or have received notice that you ... More About: Tips , Foreclosure
Wells Fargo has $83 billion in home equity exposure
2008-04-21 00:11:00 In Moody’s affirmation of Wells Fargo ’s Aaa credit rating the rating agency pointed to the health of Wells Fargo’s $83.68 billion home equity portfolio as a key driver in the company’s rating. If this portfolio should see degradation then the bank’s rating could suffer, said Moody’s in a press release. From Moody’s press release about ... More About: Home , Exposure , Equity
LIBOR surges as banks get real
2008-04-20 23:45:00 We’ve all read the stories of how the great American subprime unwinding is reeking havoc overseas; but now it’s time for a little turnabout. The LIBOR index has surged recently as economists have called for scrutiny of the posted borrowing rates by institutions measured by the index. This is big news to anyone ... More About: Banks , Real
Freddie joins Fannie in purchasing ?conforming jumbo?s?
More articles from this author:2008-04-20 23:29:00 This is a couple of days old - and I’ve received several emails as to why I haven’t blogged about it yet. The answer is that while the news of the GSE picking up jumbo conforming loans is, in fact, news, the bigger story is that there hasn’t been much of an appetite for ... More About: Freddie , Jumbo , Conforming 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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