Mostly Real Estate Blog

If you’re thinking about selling this spring, it’s time to get moving – the best week to list your house is fast approaching....

It opened in March 1959 and was so swamped with bowlers it stayed open 24 hours a day for 3 days.  As an iconic building along Highway 1 in ...

The very expected Fed interest rate rise of 25 basis points (one-quarter point) materialized this week, but it the Fed also suggested that the peak ...

Here’s Why the Housing Market Isn’t Going To Crash Although prices are down between 14% and 24% in the Bay Area (depending upon county ...

Mortgage applications in the US went up 9% last week.  Increased mortgage applications is an indicator that more buyers will be entering the ...

Mortgage rates took a dip this week, dropping to 6.6% from 6.73% for a 30-year fixed mortgage.  This is likely temporary, however.  ...

HI, Oh Jerome, Jerome, Jerome.  Why have you forsaken ...

The State of California is serious as a heart attack about cities figuring out how to help build the target 2.5 million homes in California over the ...

Yesterday Jerome Powell indicated that due to reports of a higher level of economic activity than expected, the Fed funds rate may go higher faster ...

Mortgage rates went down at the end of 2022 - albeit briefly - and home sales jumped as a result.  This is an indicator that it is not ...

Builder confidence went up by the most in a single month in almost a decade (easy, biscuit - that's because it has been down so much).  ...

The biggest challenge the housing market’s facing is how few homes there are for sale. Mark Fleming, Chief Economist at First ...

Well, ya learn something every day.  There was once a train called the Snowball Special which would whisk folks from Oakland up to Sugar Bowl....

As is typical every year, Super Bowl Sunday signals the beginning of the real estate spring season.  Inventory begins to flow in near ...

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East ...