Laguna Beach is notable for being one of the most prestigious and expensive communities in the Southern California area. Unfortunately, the rather high per capita income and home prices in the region did not translate to immunity from the ravages of the national recession that began in the year two thousand eight. To the contrary, [...]
Entries from September 30th, 2009
Ashland real estate news
September 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate Markets
The Ashland real estate market, which is a part of the larger Southern Oregon real estate market and the Jackson real estate market, has been lagging somewhat behind the trend of the generally strong areas around it. According to an article originally published by the Associated Press and reported on the website of KTVL News [...]
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Maui real estate market news
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate Markets
Maui real estate has faced a series of problems throughout the last calendar year, beginning well before the advent of the actual nationwide recession, and culminating with a series of current negative developments. Maui seems to have had more high-profile failures than its status as the third most populous island in the Aloha State would [...]
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Tennessee real estate news
September 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate Markets
The Tennessee real estate market is somewhat internally divided between hard-hit areas and regions which were not critically stricken by the nationwide economic crisis. It seems that the eastern and western portion of the state of Tennessee bore the brunt of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, while the central part of the state – “Middle Tennessee” [...]
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Denver Real Estate – Tale of Two Cities
September 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate Markets
Denver’s real estate market is like Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Only in this version of the classic novel it’s the rich suffering unfortunate circumstances. Luxury home sales have cratered but starter homes for first-time homebuyers are selling fast and actually at prices that are appreciating. Home sales of over $1 million are [...]
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Chicago real estate news
September 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate, Real Estate Markets
The Chicago real estate market is starting to show signs of recovery after a long period of decline as a result of the nationwide economic crisis. In some ways, the recession simply greased the wheels of an already-impending decline in Chicago real estate. Home prices had already started to decline along with home sales and [...]
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Pleasanton real estate homes sales update
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Pleasanton real estate is closely linked to the larger Bay Area real estate market, which is regarded as one of the most diverse in the state of California and the United States in general. At the outset of the nationwide economic depression and the collapse of the sub prime mortgage market, the Bay Area was [...]
Kauai real estate market news
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate, Real Estate Markets, Real Estate Portals
Kauai real estate is one that lacks any sort of internal or temporal consistency. It seems that the Garden Island of Hawaii has its own niche in the statewide and national real estate market, seemingly independent from the other major forces at work in comparable climates. This is a characteristic which Kauai seems to share [...]
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Orange County real estate news
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate, Real Estate Markets
The Orange County real estate market is somewhat different from the rest of the Golden State, and in fact from the rest of the country at large. This is because of the relatively high median per capita and family incomes in the region, which result in a higher than usual renting and owning cost for [...]
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Salt Lake City real estate news
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Real Estate, Real Estate Markets
The Salt Lake City real estate market represents the housing of one of the communities that has found mostly effective ways of dealing with the difficult situation created by the nationwide economic downturn. There have certainly been flaws in the manner in which the local government has opted to deal with declines in a number [...]
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