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Entries from December 2008

The Credit Crunch from the Other Side of the Desk

December 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve written a piece as a guest-writer for The Front Steps, one of the better blogs on SF Real Estate.
After talking to loan officers and loan brokers for several weeks about the lending environment, here are the takeaways:

Have “perfect everything”:  high credit score, secure job, money in the bank and documentation to prove it all.
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Tags: Loans

Maybe it’s time to buy that first house….

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

That’s what New York Times journalist Ron Lieber discusses in Saturday’s Business Section.  You can find a copy of the article here.  Of course, nobody really knows where the real estate market is headed but Lieber suggests that now could be a good time to buy.  Here are a few of the takeaways:

First-time home-buyers presumably [...]

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Tags: Market news

The View from Space — Part 3: Above California

December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

The forecast for the California Housing Market

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Tags: Economy · Market news