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1Q 2013 Inventory 1 Apr 2013 | 10:59 am
The story of extremely low inventory continued on the Westside for the first quarter of 2012 for Santa Monica less than $3 million and the Westside in general (blue bars).
2012 Inventory wrap-up 28 Jan 2013 | 04:13 am
The big story for 2012 was much lower MLS inventory numbers throughout the year, for both Santa Monica less than $3 million and the Westside in general (the orange bars). Anecdotally desirable houses ...
Calculated Risk interview 24 Nov 2012 | 08:31 am
Nice interview with Calculated Risk's Bill McBride on Business Insider (h/t Paul Krugman). CR/Bill was an icon to a lot of us back when (you know you were one if you recoginze his original masthead, a...
Krugman: Obama, Romney, Jobs 4 Jan 2012 | 12:06 pm
Paul Krugman posted this chart today that really says it all. Greg Sargent is rightly outraged by Romney’s claim that Obama is a job destroyer ... Does this look to you like a president who “lost jobs...
Low-end 90402 and 90405 sales in 2011 2 Jan 2012 | 12:08 pm
Ah, Redfin. I used to manually track and report listings and subsequent sales for Santa Monica 90402 and 90405. Now it's as simple as putting a zipcode into Redfin, selecting sales within the last yea...
S&P/Case-Shiller (October) and DataQuick (November) 31 Dec 2011 | 08:33 pm
Completing statistics for the end of 2011, the October S&P/Case-Shiller, is continuing down in both Los Angeles and the 10-city Composite. Los Angeles is down 39.6% from its September 2006 peak, at Se...
December 2011 Inventory 31 Dec 2011 | 08:11 pm
Wrapping up 2011, here are year-end MLS inventory numbers for Santa Monica and the greater Westside. In general they're running a bit below the last two years for the second half of 2011, except for S...
"Someone else's responsibility" 27 Dec 2011 | 10:26 pm
The lead story in the LA Times today, "Obama shifts his message on economy", featured this quote on the inside page: In a Wall Street Journal column Thursday, Karl Rove, the former chief strategist to...
The next bubble? 19 Dec 2011 | 08:51 pm
I'm certainly not the first to fear that policies in the aftermath of this bubble will create another one. Today's LA Times "Conditions are ripe for reprise of real estate schemes and fraud" (Kenneth ...
Nevada gets tough 11 Dec 2011 | 11:27 am
Remember the calls for prosecution of those who caused the housing bubble and crash? Especially Keith on the late, great Housing Panic blog calling for "perp walks"? It's finally happening in Nevada ...
