Archive for June, 2010Cirios Trends — June 2010In this month’s Cirios Trends: Finding Real Estate Opportunities, check out: The State of the Markets: June 8, 2010 Something isn’t adding up in the market for bank owned homes. Feature: How Much Should I Pay? Tips for buyers not interested in overpaying. Around the Bay: Local News Bites Goings on that move markets. Zip [...] Feature: How Much Should I Pay?This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: Finding Real Estate Opportunities. “Mow much should I pay?” is about the most common question we get here at Cirios. Unfortunately (or fortunately), the answer to this question is never black and white. Depending on a buyer’s desired use for a property, there are [...] Around the Bay: Local News BitesThis post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. Toyota Gets Long Electric Cars (San Francisco Chronicle) Toyota Corp. is plunking down $50 million to help Tesla Motors restart the recently shuttered Nummi auto plant in Fremont. Tesla is hiring 50 staff per month to get the [...] The State of the Markets — June 8, 2010This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: Finding Real Estate Opportunities. There is no ambiguity about the goal of current US government policy when it comes to housing: Prevent home price depreciation at all cost. As such, this month’s State of the Markets was going to discuss shadow inventory, diving into [...] Zip Code Spotlight – East Palo Alto – 94303This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: Finding Real Estate Opportunities. This month’s spotlight falls on East Palo Alto, CA, perhaps one of the Bay Area’s most interesting pockets of real estate and an excellent illustration of the effect of housing boom and bust on marginal areas. Surrounded by islands of [...] Cirios Opportunities – Is Seller Financing Right for You?This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: Finding Real Estate Opportunities. As the aftershocks of the housing crash continue to rumble through the mortgage market, many home sellers, from investors to individuals, would be wise to look into the benefits of offering seller financing to sell their properties. Seller what? Seller [...] Talking Charts – Who’s Back on Track?This post first appeared in the June edition of: Cirios Trends: Finding Real Estate Opportunities. If there is a theme we at Cirios harp on more than any other, it’s that just because a particular city or neighborhood is considered “more desirable” than another, that does not mean by extension it’s also a better place [...] |