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SF Overrun by Godless Gladiators The Return of Normal Seasonality for Home Price Appreciation RATES AND GRAINS OF SALT The Fall in Home Prices May Already Be over What Experts Project for Home Prices Over the Next 5 Years EVERYBODY GOT HOME PRICES WRONG THIS YEAR MARKET WATCH SEPTEMBER 2023 - WHEN ARE INTEREST RATES FALLING? REASONS YOU STILL MAY WANT TO SELL HOMEBUYERS ARE STILL MORE ACTIVE THAN NORMAL YEARS HUNT FOR AFFORDABLE HOMES SPURS BUILDER ACTION ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGES ARE BACK THE MYTH OF THE MEDIAN PRICE MORE JOBS AND BETTER PAY LEAD TO MORE BUYER DEMAND MORTGAGE RATES OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR WHY YOU DON' T NEED TO FEAR THE RETURN OF ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGES PEOPLE WANT LESS EXPENSIVE HOMES - AND BUILDERS ARE RESPONDING BUY NOW OR BUY LATER (AND I SUPPOSE SELL AS WELL) FED LIKELY DONE RAISING RATES INFLATION CONTINUES TO SUBSIDE Where are Mortgage Rates Headed? US house prices to jump nearly 6% this year: award-winning forecaster Foreclosure Numbers Today Aren’t Like 2008 Home Prices Begin the Rebound Home Prices are Rebounding Explaining Today's Mortgage Rates Mortgage Rates Won't Go Back Down to 3% in My Lifetime More Good Inflation News Going Up Index for Bay Area Home Values Ticks Up Erasing Part of the YOY 11% Drop Why the Median Price is Meaningless Are Home Prices Going Up or Down? That Depends… What it Means When Market Indicators are Moving in Random & Unpredictable Ways This Kind of Stuff Makes it All Worth It The Main Reason Mortgage Rates are So High Check Home Insurance Before You Buy Keys to Success for First-Time Homebuyers THE UNICORNS HAVE ALL GALLOPED OFF Bay Area Residents Pay Highest Premium to Own vs Rent THE WORST HOME PRICE DECLINES ARE BEHIND US 30 SECONDS: INFLATION TO HIT 3.5% IN A FEW MONTHS The Best Time To Sell Your House Is When Others Aren’t Selling INFLATION CONTINUES DECLINE 30 SECONDS ON FED RATE RISES MEANINGLESS THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A HOUSING SHORTAGE Sweden to Create First EV-Charging Highway Parrots Learn to Call Each Other on iPads PROFIT DRIVEN INFLATION CEO PAY INFLATION RECEDES The Last of the Rate Rises - Market Watch May 2023 We Buy Ugly Damaged Houses INFLATION DROPS AGAIN DREAM FOR ALL PROGRAM PAUSED BUY NOW OR WAIT THE STATS APRIL 2023 CALHFA DREAM FOR ALL PROGRAM - 20% DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE Why Aren't Home Prices Crashing Get Ready: The Best Time To List Your House Is Almost Here Sea Bowl to Close in Pacifica After 60 Years FED FUNDS RATE HIKES NEARLY OVER PRICES DOWN, 3.75% LOANS STILL AVAILABLE - WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? NO CRASHING, ALTHOUGH THERE IS A DISCOUNT MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS TICK UP 9% AVERAGE MORTGAGE RATE TICKS DOWN THE FRIDAY 230310 Sausalito's Housing Plan Includes Building Homes on Lots Underwater Fed Funds Increases May Be Bigger and Go Higher Home Listings Increase Across the US Pending Home Sales Rise Home Builder Confidence Index Moves Up The Two Big Issues the Housing Market’s Facing Right Now THE TRAIN TO TAHOE/SUGAR BOWL NUMBER OF HOME LISTINGS TO GO UP INDEX FOR BAY AREA HOMES HAS DROPPED OVER 14%, DOWN YOY SELLERS ENTER THE MARKET Inflation Falling Rapidly Experts Forecast a Turnaround in the Housing Market in 2023 Bay Area Population Revised Downward iBuyer Companies Head for the Exits Gas Furnaces and Water Heaters to be Outlawed SF Supervisor Proposes to Streamline Single Family Homes Conversion to Multi-Family Homes THE FRIDAY 1/13/23 Mortgage Rates Decline Again Maximum Seller Concessions & Rate Buydowns Save $84,000 on a Home Purchase. Seriously. $84k. 2023 Home and Design Trends to Watch Annual Mortgage Delinquency Rate Falls for 19th Straight Month in October If You Paused Buying Due to Competition.... AMAZON AIR DRONE DELIVERY STARTS SERVICE WARFIELD OFFICES MAY BECOME HOUSING LAND BRIDGE IN BERING SEA FORMED LATER THAN THOUGHT CASE SHILLER HOME INDEX TICKS DOWN IN SF METRO MORTGAGE RATES TICK DOWN AGAIN, DESPITE FED ACTION THE PARTY IS OVER They Had Me at Indoor Ice Hockey.... 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CORE-LOGIC APPRECIATION ESTIMATES THIS YEAR EXPERT FORECASTS ON MORTGAGE RATES THE MARKET SHIFTS FOR BUYERS PRICE YOUR HOME RIGHT IT'S NOT A BUBBLE HOME EQUITY FUELS YOUR NEXT HOME Home Price Deceleration Doesn’t Mean Home Price Depreciation HOME APPRECIATION OUTPACES INFLATION 2022 Sales Volume Crashes - No I Mean Goes Back to Normal Is the Housing Market Correcting? Why the Growing Number of Homes for Sale Is Good for Your Move Up Home Prices Forecast 2022 MARKET WATCH JUNE 2022 Work From Home Responsible for Home Price Appreciation Not a Bubble With Higher Interest Rates - Now is the Time to Buy - WHAAAATTT???!!!! Things That Could Help You Win a Bidding War on a Home How To Approach Rising Mortgage Rates as a Buyer What’s Happening with Mortgage Rates, and Where Will They Go from Here? Good News and Bad News for the Castro I've Never Been Asked This Waiting for Interest and Prices to Decline Listed Inventory Levels in SF Tick Up, Nearing a 10-year High Down Payment Assistance Programs Can Help You Achieve Homeownership Millennials: Do You Need a Home with More Space? 4 Simple Graphs Showing Why This Is Not a Housing Bubble Permits for Major NoPa Development Close to Being Secured How to Win as a Buyer in a Seller's Market Millions of Americans Have Discovered the Benefits of Multigenerational Households The Top Indicator if You Want To Know Where Mortgage Rates Are Heading One-third of Houses For Sale are New Construction, An All-Time High Index for Bay Area House Value Decelerates Why Inflation Shouldn’t Stop You from Buying a Home in 2022 There Won’t Be a Wave of Foreclosures in the Housing Market Expert Insights on the Real Estate Market for 2022 US home prices surge 18.4% in October The Perks of Putting 20% Down on a Home Unknown Lenders Make Your Offer Hit the Trash Homebuyers Be Ready to Act SF Tenants Win Millions Over Bogus Evictions Fed Decision: Officials Project Three Interest Rate Rises in 2022 and Accelerate Stimulus Wind Down Where the housing market is going in 2022 as told by 7 leading forecast models Why It Just Became Much Easier To Buy a Home If the Current Real Estate Market was an Apple Top 5 Remodeling Projects to Boost Resale Value Home Is Where the Heart Is More than Ever This Year Don’t Believe Everything You Read: The Truth Many Headlines Overlook Mortgage Loan Application Volume Drops Experts Project Mortgage Rates Will Continue To Rise in 2022 Does Everything Go for Over the Asking Price The iBuyer Game Your Home Equity is Growing Build, Buy, or Sell? 3.5% JUMBO LOANS What's Causing Today's Competitive Real Estate Market The Main Key to Understanding the Rise in Mortgage Rates Two Reasons Why Waiting a Year Could Cost You Is a 20% Down Payment Really Necessary To Purchase a Home? Number of Homes for Sale Continues to Grow Is the Number of Homes for Sale Finally Growing? The Truth About Today’s Buyer Demand Home Price Appreciation Is Skyrocketing in 2021. What About 2022? 5 Reasons Today’s Housing Market Is Anything but Normal Stopping and Staring 248,000 Jobs to Go El Rey Theater to be Restored Real Estate: It's Still a Lack of Supply, Not a Lack of Demand Index for Bay Are House Values Up 18.2% $475,000 Tenant Buyout in SF Employment in Bay Area Still 300k Short Not About Real Estate - Great Dogs are Better Than People Buyers: It's All So Overwhelming Today's Market A Look at Home Price Appreciation Through 2025 Are We in a Housing Bubble What Do Experts See on the Horizon for the Second Half of the Year? What to Expect as Appraisal Gaps Grow 5 Things Homebuyers Need to Know When Making an Offer Why This is Not Like 2008 Again Experts Say Home Prices Will Continue to Appreciate Are Interest Rates Expected to Rise Over the Next Year? Is Home Price Appreciation Accelerating Again? How Much Time Do You Need to Save for a Down Payment 10 Questions Everyone Selling a Home Should be Asking Top 4 Reasons to Own a Home There's No Reason to Panic Over Today's Lending Standards How a Change in Mortgage Rates Affects Buying Power To Renovate or Not to Renovate How Smart is it to Buy a Home Today? Home Prices: What Happened in 2020 The Reason Mortgage Rates Are Expected to Rise Home Mortgage Rates By Decade Will Low Mortgage Rates Continue Do I Really Need 20% Down? Owning a Home is Still More Affordable than Renting One Things to Avoid After Applying for a Mortgage Will Forbearance Plans Lead to a Tsunami of Foreclosures? The Importance of Home Equity in Building Wealth More Generations are Living Under One Roof Why It's Important to Price Your Home Right Today Turning a House into a Happy Home Did You Outgrow Your Home in 2020? 2021 Housing Forecast Homeowner Equity Increases an Astonishing $1 Trillion 10 Over $10m 3 Reasons to be Optimistic 5 Steps to Follow When Applying for Forebearance Prop 19 - Keeping Your Property Tax Basis An Honest Look at the Unemployment Numbers Knowledge is Power on the Path to Homeownership Winter Will Bring Flurry of Activity Why the 2021 Forecast Doesn't Call for a Foreclosure Crisis Two Important Aspects of Home Equity Degeneres Sells Flip House Why Today's Options Will Save Homeowners from Foreclosure Should You Buy a Retirement Home Sooner Where Are Home Values Headed over the Next 12 Months Home Builder Confidence Hits All-Time High Is the Economic Recovery Beating All Projections Unemployment Rate Falls How Will the Presidential Election Impact Real Estate Median Prices Rise HPSI Drops How Is Remote Work Changing Homebuyer Needs Homeownership Rate Continues to Rise Two Reasons We Won't See Foreclosures Cottage Industry Booming - Parents Move to the Backyard Is The Health Crisis Driving Buyers Our of Urban Areas Should We Be Looking at Unemployment Numbers Differently? What Are the Experts Saying About Home Prices Is The Economic Recovery Already Underway? $68 Million Starter Home The Shocking News in the Unemployment Report 30 Year Loans at 50 Year Low Three Things to Understand About Unemployment Statistics Yes Virginia, There is Real Estate More Expensive than San Francisco Home Prices It's All About Supply & Demand Some Bay Area Rents Plunge Elon Musk - House for Sale Cheap! 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Sellers Disagree Potrero Power Station Redevelopment Headed for Final Approval What You Can Do to Get Your House Ready to Sell Will Surging Unemployment Crush Home Sales Looking to the Future: What the Experts Are Saying What You Can Do to Keep Your Dream of Homeownership Moving Forward IT'S NOT LIKE LAST TIME... Don't Let Frightening Headlines Scare You Gates Notes on Corona Virus That Discomfort You're Feeling is Grief How Homes are Selling During Pandemic Why the Stock Market Correction Probably Won't Impact Home Values Economic Slowdown, Experts Predict Recessions Are Not Housing Crises No Foreclosure Wave Healed Femur Three Reasons Why... Berkeley Classic Mid-Century Seriously. Stay In. This time is not like last time... Strength of Economy Surprising Where Have All the Houses Disappeared To? More Affordable Buyers in Line The New Spring Market! The 2020 Real Estate Projections That May Surprise You Selling a first-time homebuyer home? Pitch to the early 30s Will Increasing Mortgage Rates Impact Home Prices? Common Things to Look Out for Before Buying Your Dream Home Why You Should Consider Selling in the Winter Is Getting a Home Mortgage Still Too Difficult? SF does not have the highest rents in the Bay Area SF home prices drop, still unaffordable for all How healthy is the U.S. economy Here’s what 7 key indicators reveal. Weekly Market Update 20 Tips for Preparing Your House for Sale This Spring 3 Reasons Why We Are Not Heading Toward Another Housing Crash How To List Your Home for the Best Price UNEXPECTED DIP IN MORTGAGE RATES OPENS HOMEBUYING AFFORDABILITY WINDOW One More Time… You Do Not Need 20% Down to Buy a Home The Cost Across Time Is the Recent Dip in Interest Rates Here to Stay? TIDBITS WEEK OF 1/7/19 Top Renovations to Complete Before You Sell Your House 4 Quick Reasons NOT to Fear a Housing Crash No Bubble Here! 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They aren't so good at loans... What If I Wait Until Next Year to Buy a Home? 4 Reasons Why Today’s Housing Market is NOT 2006 All Over Again How Much Has Your Home Increased in Value Over the Last Year? Why Home Prices Are Increasing “Short of a war or stock market crash…” What Is Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)? Boomerang Buyers: Most Qualify for Financing in 2-3 Years The Cost of Renting vs. Buying Today Be Thankful You Don’t Have to Pay Your Parents’ Interest Rate! Freddie Mac: Rising Mortgage Rates DO NOT Lead to Falling Home Prices The Cost of Waiting: Interest Rates Edition The COST of Your Next Home Will Be LESS Than Your Parents’ Home Was STATEWIDE RENT CONTROL IN CALIFORNIA A New Housing Bubble Forming…Not Before 2024! Home Prices: The Difference 5 Years Makes Competition is Coming, Are You Thinking of Selling Your Home? News Tidbits Are Home Values Really Overinflated? Is Now a Good Time to Rent? Potential Growth Mortgage Rates on FIRE! Home Prices Up in Smoke? 2 Ways to Get the Most Money from The Sale of Your Home Should I Wait Until Next Year to Buy? Or Buy Now? Calm Down! The Real Estate Market is NOT Falling Apart Where Are Mortgage Interest Rates Headed in 2018? Whether You Rent or Buy, Either Way You’re Paying a Mortgage! Thinking of Buying at the Shipyard...wait a sec Two Minute Tidbit January 18 Bidding Wars Abound… How Long Will They Continue? 2 Major Myths Holding Back Home Buyers Where Did Americans Move in 2017? 61% of First-Time Buyers Put Down Less than 6% Get ahead....by getting ahead. The Impact of Tight Inventory on the Housing Market 712,000 Homes in the US Regained Equity in the Past 12 Months! The Benefits of Homeownership Go Beyond the Financial There’s More to a Bubble Than Rising Home Prices The Future of Interest Rates The Future of SF Housing Prices Housing Prices are NOT Heading for Another Crash Home Prices Up 6.54% Across the Country! 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