Archive for November, 2006
Thursday Blog Roundup
Thursday is busy but here are a couple of interesting real estate blog posts to spark the brain.
Deadbeat Tenants Slide Over One – An interesting persepective on tenant issues from the Landlord Blog.
What is A Bubble? – SoCal Real Estate Bubble has a very interesting perspective on What is a Bubble. SoCal is one of [...]
YouTube, Agassi, and the San Francisco Housing Bubble
In an interesting confluence of events, the hottest tech and business story (YouTube), top athletes (Agassi and Steffi Graf), and the biggest story in real estate (the housing bubble) have all come together in one neat package.
A top investor in YouTube, Bill Bullock, made a bundle with the sale for 1.65 billion to Google last [...]
Wednesdays Blog Roundup
Wednesdays Blog Roundup – today we are going to focus more on the business side of real estate. While I am not a real estate pro, I did stay at a Holiday Inn recently so I think these ideas I have found should be beneficial.
Ask not for whom the MLS toils . . . [...]
29Nov2006 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued
Jumbo Mortgages For 2007 Will Remain Unchanged
If you were looking to borrow more than 417,000 in 2007 for your home, expect to pay the premium for a jumbo mortgage instead of a conventional mortgage. For the past few years, the amount you could borrow on a conventional mortgage has been rising rapidly.
Now with housing prices essentially unchanged, Fannie Mae and Freddie [...]
Florida Woman Stealing From Real Estate Agents While Posing as Buyers
If you are selling homes in Seminole County, Florida, keep an eye out for these two women. They are pulling a scam by claiming to be homebuyers but instead are stealing credit cards from the wallets of the real estate office employees.
And if this scam is being committed in one place and highlighted in the [...]
The Horror, The Horror…
I would have to give this some special consideration.
28Nov2006 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued
Tuesday Blogger Round Up
Some interesting reads for Tuesday, November 28th, 2006.
The New York Times and real estate porn – Business 2.0’s Real Estate Blog shows what a $4,385 square foot house looks like. (what a headline!)
28Nov2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
All Real Estate is Local – Some SF Communities Still Strong
We all tend to look for the bigger trends in real estate and typically succeed. However, the macro trends tend to fall flat when looking at a specific location. To hear the pundits (myself included) talk, California is an overpriced wasteland where properties are not moving and prices are too high.
But an interesting article [...]
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Monday Blogger Roundup
I used to do this in the past, but things get busy and ideas get lost in the mix. There are a great deal of blogs out there doing an outstanding job of covering real estate. I tend to look for new news and do a horrible job of linking to the bloggers that I [...]
27Nov2006 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
My mom told me to put the statue in the ground, just seems wrong to me but I did it. ...
What about RE/MAX Commercial? Where this classification came from?
I am pretty sure RE/MAX Commercial in volume sales must be above ...
Well Tom, once again you have said it much better than I could have. Unfortunately the folks at Move, ...
It certainly does not bode well for a fast recovery in the economic climate. This will affect all real estate ...
I HAVE 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS..HOW DO I APPLY AT KAI. 
Definitely not a fan of Move Inc.!!! 
A lot of you really need to go back to kindergarten and learn to spell correctly. If you cannot spell ...
In 2008, there was an extension to push first-time home buyers to purchase their homes quickly since the program did ...
I also need HELP and don't know what to do about my problem. I have a garden apartment off ...
I have the same situation. I sold my home in July and am scheduled to to close in a few ...
