San Francisco Sees Second Month of Annual House
Price Increases

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The San Francisco Bay Area experienced a second month of year-over-year gains in home sales prices in November, MDA DataQuick reported.The San Diego-based real estate information service provider said the increase is a sign of widening price stability for the Northern California market.The median price paid for all new and resale houses and condos in [...]

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Gurus Secret Wholesale Anyone

post from CA Wholesale Blog on 18 December 2009 12:46:53 PM. © CA Wholesale Blog

“The secret is that there is no secret”?I don’t think so.On the webinar that I did last night I found out that manybeginning – and even some advanced – real estate investorsdon’t know the secret.It’s really not that hard, but you need to put some effort into itfor sure – otherwise you will not be [...]

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When Is Cash Flow NOT the Be All End All

post from Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Investment Property Blog on 18 December 2009 12:32:32 PM. © Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Investment Property Blog

If you’re relatively young or not yet 50, earning more than enough income at work, and living the lifestyle you more or less prefer, cash flow ain’t yer problem. Think about it from a practical viewpoint.You’re paying taxes, saving money, going on vacations, and educating your kids. You have retirement plans at work, (please stop [...]

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GSEs Suspend Foreclosure Evictions Until Jan. 3

post from Housing Wire on 18 December 2009 12:28:54 PM. © Housing Wire

The government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae (FNM: 1.09 0.00%) and Freddie Mac (FRE: 1.39 +0.72%) have suspended foreclosures for the holidays.The suspension follows Citigroup?s (C: 3.295 +2.97%) gift to its borrowers, when it announced that there would be no foreclosures until Jan. 17.Freddie Mac ordered its eviction attorneys to suspend all evictions involving single-family and [...]

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Bankers Per-Loan Profits Fall on Higher Product
Costs

post from Housing Wire on 18 December 2009 12:21:10 PM. © Housing Wire

Borrowers applied for more purchase mortgages than refinance loans, and the higher per-loan production costs meant declined profits for independent mortgage bankers and subsidiaries in Q309, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said.The MBA?s quarterly mortgage bankers performance report put the average per-loan profit at $902 in Q309. That?s down from Q209, when the average profit [...]

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Commercial Appraiser Group

post from Commercial Real Estate Appraiser - Appraisal Blog, APPRAISAL/CONSULTING SERVICES: 310.337.1973 on 18 December 2009 12:07:00 PM. © Commercial Real Estate Appraiser - Appraisal Blog, APPRAISAL/CONSULTING SERVICES: 310.337.1973

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Months Later, Thornburg Servicing Portfolio to
Sell

post from Housing Wire on 18 December 2009 12:04:44 PM. © Housing Wire

In Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the shrewd and penny-pinching money lender, Ebeneezer Scrooge, faces the reality of his life’s legacy as he watches his possessions sold off after his death.Similarly, now-bankrupt Thornburg Mortgage left behind significantly more valuable assets months after the credit crisis took its toll on the ultra-prime jumbo mortgage lender. One [...]

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Blogging Is Dangerous So Be Careful Going Pro

post from Realty 3.0 on 18 December 2009 11:48:42 AM. © Realty 3.0

I donand#8217;t think that fascination with making money blogging is such a popular trend that it used to be a few years ago when we only started Profy here - at the time everyone seemed to be determined it was dead-simple to start a blog and begin making money off the blog by sharing some thoughts accompanied by Adsense blocks. Launching two or three blogs simultaneously definitely sounded like a surefire way to maximize revenue so we saw tons of blogs no one ever read advertised heavily by th...

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The Top 10 Least Happy States To Live In

Ever wonder why everyone around you is grumpy and mad? Check your zip code. A new study shows the levels of happiness by state. The New York metro area leads the way with New York as the most unhappiest state to live in followed by Connecticut and New Jersey. The Northeast and the Midwest dominate [...]

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Deutsche Sees House Prices Falling Another 10
Percent

When the credit crisis began, credit rating agencies created models predicting how bad things may actually get, in terms of how far down home prices would fall in America. At that time, mortgage finance players assumed this was a worst-case scenario, with an outside chance of coming true.Today, Deutsche Bank researchers say these predictions will [...]

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