Archive for April, 2010Realtors Roll the Dice With HAFAThis post first appeared on Minyanville. The Obama Administration’s latest salvo in the war against foreclosures, Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives, or HAFA, is but a week old and already America’s real estate establishment is trying to cash in. HAFA aims to step in where Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, fails. In other words, when [...] Cirios Trends — April 2010In this month’s Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities, check out: The State of the Markets: April 5, 2010 Some data show the worst may be over – so are we out of the woods? Feature: HAFA – Double Edge Swords Abound Will the latest housing market fix sink or swim? Did You [...] The State of the Markets – April 5, 2010This post first appeared in the April edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. For 12 months now, the Case Shiller Home Price Index – the most widely watched home price indicator – has been hinting that the housing market has at the very least stopped getting worse. In February’s Cirios Trends, [...] Feature: HAFA – Double Edge Swords AboundThis post first appeared in the April edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. Every six months or so, Washington’s political will seems to coalesce in support of the only issue where there is true agreement across party lines: The housing market is still broken. Sadly, in our view, the Treasury Department’s [...] Did You Know? $1 Million is the Magic Mark in San FranciscoThis post first appeared in the April edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. Single Family Homes are highly sought after within the city of San Francisco. A look at the chart below helps explain the relationship between average/median home prices and the distribution of high priced sales vs. low priced sales. [...] Around the Bay: Local News BitesThis post first appeared in the April edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. Tower in Pyramid Shadow One Step Closer (San Francisco Business Times) Liberty Hill Development, the developer working on a controversial project to build a 248-unit condo tower adjacent to San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid received good news last month, [...] Zip Code Spotlight – San Jose: A Tale of Two CitiesThis post first appeared in the April edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. San Jose is a vast city, encompassing many varied neighborhoods. This month, the zip code spotlight falls on two zip codes within the city of San Jose: 95124 (Cambrian Park) and 95127 (Alum Rock). While these zip codes [...] Talking Charts – Local Market AnalysisThis post first appeared in the April edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. As long time readers of this newsletter know, we at Cirios rail against the concept that “it’s a great time to buy,” irrespective of market condition. There is just too much that goes into the homebuying decision to [...] |