After covering mortgage payments, city takes possess...
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. Comment?
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. Comment?
Economy top San Mateo County story of '09
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. Comment?
Bay Area home sales rebound continues
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. Comment?
Foreclosure pattern holds steady
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. Comment?
Home Value Loss Now but Increased Pricing Expected i...
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. Comment?
Jeremy Bagott and Michael More: Calif. home prices o...
17 hrs ago | via LA Daily News
ROSY government projections for 2010 call for a vigorous recovery across all sectors. Comment?
Trouble at the Telecom and Communicator's Bar
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 ... Comment?
The Oh Decade: State may be waking up to what's at s...
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. Comment?
Preserving independence helps real estate firm grow
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. Comment?
Next stage in the Celtic Tiger's downhill spiral: so...
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. Comment?
Relax, capitalism is not the problem
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. Comment?
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. Comment?
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. Comment?
29 min ago | via Monroe News Star
Few things can shake Americans' economic confidence more than a declining housing market. Comment?