Yikes! Case Shiller Report Shows 20 Largest Metro Areas Drop 14.1 Percent In Quarter

The news today coming from the Case Shiller index is dismal as their top 20 metro areas dropped 14.1 percent and the top 10 metro areas fell 15 percent in March from the previous year.
The numbers are rough folks, but going into the spring season the perspective on potential buyers may be even worse. […]

Blogging Is Hard Some Days

Don’t you feel this way? I know I do.
I try to do 3 posts a day during the week, more or less on the weekends (typically less unless it is raining). But if you are wanting to build a readership, blogging with regularity is very important.
Face it, would you go to your local coffee […]

The 230 Million Dollar Mansion - Most Expensive Home Sale Ever

Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has bought Noam Gottesman’s Kensington Palace Gardens home for a cool 117 million pounds. The previous record was just up the road on London’s Billionaires Row.

It is interesting to see London taking the place where all of the top end real estate is selling. Outside of Trump’s sale of his […]

New Jersey Realtors Mad At NAR Over Inflated Numbers

The public who follows real estate reporting, i.e. my readers, have long been amused and baffled at the overly optimistic numbers that the National Association Of Realtors has put out. Well, a new group of folks are getting annoyed at what is perceived as grandstanding by the NAR.
Actual dues paying New Jersey Realtors.
The […]

Did Congresswoman Richardson Lose Her House To Foreclosure?

In an example of the lack of character that has permeated the Congress of the United States, California Congresswoman Laura Richardson, Democrat from California, has reportedly lost here home in Sacramento to foreclosure.
She put out a statement to the LA Times that she was renegotiating with the lender, but another report says that the […]