Let’s check in on the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). Here’s a summary of the latest data for the Los Angeles area, which includes LA and Orange Counties: April 2011 Month to Month: Up 0.3% Year to Year: Down 2.1% Prices at this level in: September 2003 Peak month: September 2006 Change from Peak: Down… Read More
Hey all, So, my original plan was to write a big long post going over every last nook ‘n cranny of our reader poll results in painstaking detail. But then I remembered that I basically have the attention span of a fruit fly. So instead, I’m just going to post Pretty Bar Graphs of the… Read More
As part of their neighborhood stabilization program, Fannie Mae is offering buyers’ assistance through a couple of different programs, HomePath and First Look. HomePath HomePath helps buyers buy covering their closing costs, up to 3.5% of the home’s purchase price. To qualify, buyers must be purchasing a HomePath property; this is a home that is… Read More
Hey everyone! I wanted to say a big fat wet sloppy thank you to everyone who participated in last week’s reader poll. There were nearly 800 of you, and almost everyone had something useful, informative, or enlightening to contribute. (There was, of course, a small but vocal minority who did nothing but make dirty jokes… Read More
I’m just going to level with y’all. It’s one of my performance goals to write one of these blog posts every week, and every week, I approach the goal with a healthy heapin’ spoonful of a little something I like to call dread, or as they call it in German, dredenscheiningruvenshtocken.* Now at first I… Read More
Imagine you’d bought a home, and one day you went into the attic while chasing after a raccoon and– What? No. I don’t know why you’re chasing a raccoon. Maybe it stole your sandwich.* Anyway, you climb into the attic, wrestle the raccoon into submission, reclaim your sandwich, and then look over and see a… Read More
Let’s check in on the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). Here’s a summary of the latest data for the Los Angeles area, which includes LA and Orange Counties: March 2011 Month to Month: Down 0.3% Year to Year: Down 1.7% Prices at this level in: September 2003 Peak month: September 2006 Change from Peak: Down… Read More