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18000 sq ft lot over 5000 1929 Spanish with great pool around 4.3 mil. Makes this great property a fabulous deal. Missed caravan.
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Westside LA is a collection of fitness-friendly neighborhoods. Here is one of my favorite fitness studios, Classic Pilates Body on San Vicente Boulevard. (I wish I had a "classic Pilates body!" hey, I'm workin' on it.)
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The modest recovery in home prices is beginning to falter, according to data released Tuesday.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index, a closely watched measure of 20 metropolitan areas, barely rose in September, increasing 0.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis.
Nine of the cities in the index fell in the month, including Boston, Charlotte, New York and Seattle.
“This may be a bit of a transition period,” said Maureen Maitland, vice president for index services at Standard & Poor’s.
After literally years of decline, the Case-Shiller index had increased about 3.5 percent from its low in May. In August only a handful of severely troubled cities were continuing to show declines. Some analysts had hoped that the worst was behind the industry.
That hope is giving way to pessimism. The housing market traditionally slows during the winter. This year, it will have to confront an abundance of inventory, high unemployment, devastated household balance sheets and an economy that remains wobbly.
Instead of housing having a slow “V”-shaped recovery, Ms. Maitland speculated, it might instead look more like a “W,” as the price lows plumbed last spring are tested again this winter.
The Case-Shiller index covers about 45 percent of the United States housing market. The index is a three-month moving average. Since July and August were relatively strong, the weak September report could indicate a sharp fall-off in prices.
Also released Tuesday was the S.& P./Case-Shiller National Home Price Index for the third quarter, which covers about 75 percent of the market.
The national index showed an 8.9 percent decline in the third quarter of 2009 versus the third quarter of 2008, a substantial improvement over the 14.7 percent decline in the annual rate of return reported in the second quarter of 2009.
Prices in Las Vegas have declined for 37 months and are down more than half from their peak. At the other extreme is Dallas, which did not have much of a boom and thus did not have so far to fall. Prices there are only down about 5 percent.
Over all, the 20-city composite index is off 29.1 percent.The Case-Shiller numbers lag by a month the report on existing home sales, which was issued earlier this week for October. Existing home sales jumped 10.1 percent to the highest level in two years, better than analysts had expected. Much of the increase was attributed to the $8,000 first-time buyer’s tax credit.
While increased sales should push up prices, Ms. Maitland said the overabundance of inventory was acting as a brake. “You can look down the street and have 10 houses to choose from,” she said.
I thought this was a pretty good article by New York Times today, thank you David Streitfeld for that.
I don't know how much of this applies to southern California or I should say which parts of Southern California. Lately I have written a number of offers that I have not been able to get in to escrow because of properties selling 15-20 % over asking price in multiple offers. Maybe the market will cool down over the Holidays and pick up for spring, the future will tell I guess, but this time of the year is always one of my favorite time to buy because of lack of activity and deals can be made.
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Beating the S&P 500, part 2 In "Beating the S&P 500, part 1," I showed you my my investment performance that beaten the S&P 500. In this post, I will show you another way to look at these numbers and reveal how I managed the feat. Here is a different look at the numbers The following...
100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2, Day 3 Today is day 3 of week 2, and once again it's slowly upping the number of pushups. Tonight is our 4th of July BBQ, so I figured I better get my pushups done in the morning before I get weighed down by hot dogs, burgers and beans. It is not...
the infamous alt.fan.robert-jordan 10-codes 10-9: "Yeah, now we're cruising on Jazz FM."n10-34: "If it ain't shaved, I ain't using it for a slurpee."n10-161: "Yo' mama has analogue implants."
selected prophetic moments of the coke prophets “And the Coke God said unto the faithful “Feel not the ravenous teen-porn-sex-aimed-at-morons-advert fires as burned by thine enemy, for I am with you in your sipping hour.”, and I was calmed.” - Diary of the 6th Coke Prophet (Diago - The Rabid), 1.2a.
Everlite Compact Solar Spotlight Everlite Compact Solar SpotlightThis is a high-tech solar spotlight with eight ultra-bright, 50,000 mcd white LEDs and a built in nickel-metal hydride battery pack. The lightweight 2 pound Everlite is ideal for emergency lighting, camping or other outdoor activities. It runs for 12 hours on a full charge and provides...
Palm Pre Palm has announced a new Palm Pre at CES '09. This phone is a multitouch with a slide open keyboard. It has a 3.1 inch 480x320 screen and many features like EV-DO Rev. A, WiFi, 3MP camera with LED flash, bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack, 8GB internal storage. Also this phone...
1968 Gold Nugget 1968 Golden Nugget Special Mustang The Ford marketing team and dealerships did a lot in the 60's with regional promotional Specials. The 1968 Gold Nugget Special was one of those. It was an appearance package only. No performance goodies. The Golden Nuggets received special 'Sunlit Gold" paint, black out hood...A Plaque With a Love Story
By Peter KhouryPeter Khoury/The New York Times A plaque on West 69th Street inspired a resident of the block to ask: Who was Arlene Kahn?
As a resident of West 69th Street, you sometimes wonder: Who was Arlene Kahn? Once in a while, mild curiosity gets the better of you, and you take to the Internet to see if there’s a quick answer. Not really.
