It might get so bad that we see an occasional flurry of supply! H/T daytrip: More than half of California voters say the state’s housing affordability crisis is so bad that they’ve considered moving, and 60 percent of the electorate supports rent control, according...
We got into the future of realtors over the weekend. It started with the crowdfunding effort to raise money to build a realtor-owned portal, and the goal is $1,100,000. But less than $200,000 has been donated so far, so it's unlikely the effort will be successful....
The fundraising has begun for the building of the realtor portal: https://fundrazr.com/StopZillow-PreLaunchTeam Greg should disclose the secret weapon mentioned - because if the new website isn't substantially better than Zillow, then we are wasting our time and...
Thanks JB! https://www.realestateconsulting.com/8-big-housing-changes-thanks-driverless-cars/ Fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) should become commonplace within 10–20 years, disrupting entire industries while triggering structural shifts in housing and the economy. The...
This expert says the next recession will cause home prices to come down hard, but we learned last time that people have to live somewhere, and the government will save us....
More on the Blue Line trolley extension: On September 14, 2016, the top transit official in the United States committed $1 billion toward building the San Diego region’s newest trolley line, signing an agreement that will provide 50 percent of the funds to extend the...
If the tragic hurricanes weren't enough, now Mexico has been struck by a 8.2 earthquake last night. I covered earthquakes in San Diego last month, but here is another story on the risk of the Big One hitting Southern California - and San Diego is still looking good,...
What could really boost the market further would be if we had more new or newer single-story homes for sale. Baby-boomers would be much more likely to ditch the older two-story family estates and glide into a ready-set single story home - if there was just an easy...
There are many ways to sell your house, and the best salesmen almost always prevail. Greed isn't what it used to be!
An interesting essay on today's housing crisis - thanks daytrip! But the pushers of market-friendly solutions, and even most affordable housing activists, miss a central point in the housing debate: we already have enough housing in this country. The problem is not...
