Posts Tagged ‘Cirios real estate’The State of the Markets – 9/15/2010This post first appeared in the September edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities In a financial landscape marred with uncertainty, there is one constant, one thing that “everyone” knows: Housing is in trouble. And while the bears certainly have ammunition to support their pessimistic case, history tells us that when everyone [...] Cirios Trends — March 2010In this month’s Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities, check out: The State of the Markets: March 3, 2010 How much selling is on the horizon? Feature: Protect Your Investment with a 1031 Exchange Keep the tax man off your back. Around the Bay: Local News Bites Goings on that move markets. Zip [...] Around the Bay: Local News BitesThis post first appeared in the March edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. San Francisco Building Owners Sell Winners, Keep Sinners (San Francisco Business Times) There’s an old saying on Wall Street that you shouldn’t sell your winners to finance your sinners. Landlords in San Francisco, apparently, didn’t get the message. [...] Cirios Trends — February 2010In this month’s Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities, check out: The State of the Markets: February 2, 2010 A critical crossroads has arrived. Feature: Real Estate Investing with Your IRA Diversify your nest egg. Around the Bay: Local News Bites Goings on that move markets. Zip Code Spotlight – South San Francisco [...] The State of the Markets — February 2, 2010This post first appeared in the February edition of: Cirios Trends: In Search of Real Estate Opportunities. If someone were to wake up from a 5-year coma and ask about the state of our country’s economy, the chart below pretty much sums it up. The past five years in the housing market, the financial market [...] The State of the Markets: A Decade in FluxThis post first appeared in the SPECIAL EDITION: Cirios Trends: A Decade in Flux The books are officially closed on a decade which will be remembered for an historic real estate boom in the United States that busted in spectacular fashion, nearly taking the entire world financial system down with it. Of course, the real [...] Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market – November 2009In this month’s issue, check out: The State of the Markets – 11/3/2009 Opportunity abounds as banks pare back on risk. Editorial: Regulators Delay Bursting of Commercial Real Estate Bubble Reality forestalled as lenders kick the can down the road, again. Zip Code Spotlight: 94040 – Mountain View Deciphering the Google Effect. First Time Homebuyer [...] The State of the Markets – 11/3/2009This post first appeared in the November edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market Of the myriad debates ongoing at a time when economics and politics are seemingly two heads of the same freakish snake, the role government should play in directing economic actions dominates an already ideologically charged arena. [...] Editorial: Regulators Delay Bursting of Commercial Real Estate BubbleThis post first appeared in the November edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market This piece first appeared on Minyanville. By Andrew Jeffery Reality, it appears, is a dish Washington believes is best served, never. Late Friday evening on October 30th, long after most Americans had shut off their computer [...] Zip Code Spotlight – 94040 – Mountain View, CAThis post first appeared in the November edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market For this month’s zip code spotlight we head down the Peninsula to Mountain View, CA, home of Google Inc. and just up the street from rival Yahoo, headquartered in neighboring Sunnyvale. For the past decade, the [...] First Time Homebuyer Spotlight: How Much Does it Really Cost to Buy a House?This post first appeared in the November edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market When trying to determine if they can afford to buy their first home, many first time homebuyers leave out a whole host of costs that then become unwelcome surprises once they’re already emotionally invested in a [...] The State of the Markets – 10/7/2009This post first appeared in the October edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market For anyone who has tried to rent an apartment in the past six months – especially in big cities like San Francisco or New York — the pickins have been extremely good, to say the least. [...] Feature: To Condo or TIC, That is the QuestionThis post first appeared in the October edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market First-time homebuyers shopping in San Francisco almost inevitably encounter units that look like condos, but are listed as “Tenancy in Common” or “TIC.” While physically a TIC unit may look no different than a condo, financially [...] Zip Code Spotlight – 94703 / 94608 / 94609 – South Berkeley / West OaklandThis post first appeared in the October edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market This month’s zip code spotlight shines on one of the hottest real estate markets in the Bay Area. Ironically, it’s one precious few have even heard of. Looking at the map below, this area is squarely [...] By The Numbers: Sale Price vs. List PriceThis post first appeared in the October edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market Since this month’s zip code spotlight highlights the Sale Price vs. List price ratio and how it can provide insight into current activity within a defined geographic region, we have reprinted an earlier Cirios Trends piece [...] First Time Homebuyer Spotlight: Don’t Forget Property TaxesThis post first appeared in the October edition of Cirios Trends: Getting to the Bottom of the Housing Market Property taxes should not be over-looked. Most first time homebuyers don’t consider property taxes when looking for their first home. With all the excitement (and at times confusion) of buying a new home, it’s one of [...] Housing Perspective: July Case/Shiller Home Price IndexThe housing market got another boost this morning, as July’s S&P Case/Shiller Home Price Index registered its biggest monthly increase in almost four years. The 20-city index rose 1.2% in July from the month before, the biggest jump since October 2005, according to Bloomberg. Even though the monthly price figures have been increasing now for [...] Housing Perspective: July Pending Home SalesHomes under contract to buy rose in July for the sixth straight month, reaffirming the widely held view that the worst of the housing market correction is behind us. The index of pending home sales rose 3.2% from the month before, according to Bloomberg. Even Mark Zandi, the famously bearish chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com, [...] |