Hillsborough Real Estate News

Saturday | via Almanac 

An unusual case in which the city of Menlo Park paid mortgage installments and homeowners association fees on a below-market-rate condominium unit for over two years ended with the city's finally obtaining the property through a court ruling on Dec.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Menlo Park, CA, San Mateo County, CA

Friday Jan 1 | via San Mateo Daily Journal 

Worry, money and debates over future change - the themes running through the landmark moments of 2009 on the national front also echoed those a little closer to home.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Redwood City, CA, Burlingame, CA, San Mateo County, CA, San Mateo, CA

Thursday Dec 31 | via Inside Bay Area 

Across the nation, this year's unavoidable story was the economy, as the fallout from 2008's financial crash echoed in soaring unemployment, stimulus plans, bailouts and huge government deficits.

Related Topix: San Mateo County, CA, Train Disaster, Foreclosures, Palo Alto, CA, East Palo Alto, CA

Thursday Dec 17 | via Residential Real Estate 

Home sales and prices in Santa Clara County in November rose again, leading gains the Bay Area hasn't seen in two years.

Related Topix: Housing, Santa Clara County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Foreclosures

Thursday Dec 10 | via Contra Costa Times 

The number of Bay Area foreclosed homes that became bank-owned properties declined slightly in November compared with a year ago, while more homeowners found themselves hit with foreclosure notices, the first step in the foreclosure process.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, San Francisco County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Contra Costa County, CA, Alameda County, CA

Thursday Dec 31 | via Realty Times 

There's bad news and good news coming out of the housing market. Forbes Magazine released study results by Local Market Monitor that showed the cities that lost the most value are concentrated in some areas of California, Florida, Nevada, and the Northeast.

Related Topix: California, Venice (Los Angeles, CA), Los Angeles, CA, Housing, Foreclosures

17 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

ROSY government projections for 2010 call for a vigorous recovery across all sectors.

Related Topix: Housing, California, California Government, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

Saturday | via XML Journal 

New Year 2010 on Ulitzer Have you heard the news? Unemployment is skyrocketing, companies are closing, there's no investment money for startups, and the sky is falling, the sky is falling? Don't I know, as the layoff frenzy hit my own Hanging out at the communicator's barhome, that it is a scary economic place to take a swim... Sharks, really ...

Related Topix: California, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Science, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Outsourcing

Yesterday | via Sacramento Bee Newspaper 

California's prospects in the new decade will ride on its ability to answer the two big, linked questions that the final year of its lost decade left hanging.

Related Topix: California, California Government, Foreclosures, Opinion

Yesterday | via Los Angeles Times 

The gig: Syd Leibovitch, 48, is owner and president of Rodeo Realty in Bel-Air, one of the largest independent realty firms in California, with 12 branch offices in Los Angeles and Ventura counties staffed by about 1,000 brokers and agents.

Related Topix: California, Ventura County, CA, Los Angeles County, CA, Beverly Hills, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

22 min ago | via Memex 1.1 

Professor Morgan Kelly of University College Dublin has written a terrific analysis of the banking crisis which still threatens the economic viability of my homeland.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

23 min ago | via Rediff.com 

T he choice for policy-makers is not between free markets and central planning but in getting the right mix of regulation, says Gurcharan Das.

Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Home, Mortgage

28 min ago | via Detroit News 

The first week of January is all about out with the old, in with the new, which is why I hide my favorite sweatshirts from my wife, Mrs.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

28 min ago | via Detroit News 

To paraphrase Yogi Berra, the bubble's not over till the last drop splatters. That is certainly the case with the housing bubble.

Related Topix: Housing, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

29 min ago | via Monroe News Star 

Few things can shake Americans' economic confidence more than a declining housing market.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Real Estate, Pineville, LA, Alexandria, LA, Monroe, LA, Opinion