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Average Buyer: Hanger Homes: A Lesson in Supply and Demand
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Friday, September 24, 2010. Hanger Homes: A Lesson in Supply and Demand. From one of my aviation industry. This policy proposal may make things interesting for the hanger homes adjacent to Cameron Park AirPark. The area is unique and has always been close to my heart as I grew up close to it and rode my bike on the extremely wide streets as a child. This is a dream area for a pilot. September 24, 2010 at 8:29 AM.
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Average Buyer: Does Two Months a Trend Make?
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Does Two Months a Trend Make? Popular wisdom posits that high end home prices still have a ways to fall in California. The short version of the story goes, that sub-prime loans went bad first, so the lower end homes have more or less hit bottom, but the Alt-A and Option ARM loans which were sold as "affordability products" to purchase more expensive homes have yet to sour/reset en masse. Meaning tha...
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Average Buyer: Median Price Per Square Foot - Folsom & El Dorado Hills
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Thursday, June 3, 2010. Median Price Per Square Foot - Folsom and El Dorado Hills. By special request, below is the chart of median price per square foot for Folsom and El Dorado Hills. Again, seems to me that we are in a new phase, where prices fluctuate a bit month to month, but overall, stay fairly flat. Is this asking or sales price/sqft? June 3, 2010 at 1:35 PM. Median sale price per square foot. June 3, 2010 at 1:53 PM.
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Average Buyer: Losing the Bubble
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Monday, August 23, 2010. In aviation, there is a great saying people use when they lose situational awareness, it's called "loosing the bubble." The origin (best I can tell) is related to a piece of equipment that uses a bubble to helps pilots orient themselves to the ground. So when someone "loses the bubble" they become disoriented and don't have a full grasp of what is going on around them. There are a lot of analysts predi...
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Average Buyer: One Year Market Assessment
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Monday, February 22, 2010. One Year Market Assessment. We bought a new home a year ago last week. As one who follows market trends, I was well aware of the continued downside potential in the Sacramento housing market, so our decision still causes me a bit of anxiety. I was looking at some numbers from TrendGraphix and looks like the number of homes for sale in EDH is down quite a bit from a year ago, 329 in Jan 2009 and 208 i...
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Average Buyer: Not Much Hope for the High End
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Thursday, October 1, 2009. Not Much Hope for the High End. Last Spring I reported that I was aware of several folks in the local market to purchase a home. All were actively looking and making offers at what I consider the high end (500k and up). At the time this gave me hope that the market was starting to spring to life. October 2, 2009 at 7:28 AM. Im posting this for someone having trouble logging in. See the market bottom ...
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Average Buyer: Finally Movin on Up?
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Friday, June 18, 2010. Finally Movin on Up? A while back, I reported that the high end was " hopeless. Based on some statistics, and a lot of anecdotal stories. Well times have changed (it is late spring after all). Several of those that had decided to hold off, are now back in active offer mode. All are move-up buyers. Our dear friends, are even a bit frustrated. The high in Folsom was $610k and in EDH $1.3M. So far in EDH in...
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Average Buyer: Housing Market Status in El Dorado Hills
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Tuesday, March 30, 2010. Housing Market Status in El Dorado Hills. I was really surprised when I took a look at the MLS in my zip code. So I decided to take some time to scrape the MLS for El Dorado Hills to get a better idea of what is happening. The results are presented in the table below. It will be very interesting to see if this pace keeps up. There are even listing that don’t explicitly identify the house as short...
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Average Buyer: Misleading Market Indicators
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A blog dedicated to my obsession with buying in the Sacramento housing market. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. As of late, I have been a bit concerned about housing inventory. Primarily because the biggest price drops tend to occur in the last quarter of the calendar year when it is more difficult to sell a home (at least over the last couple of years). So I checked in on our local listing service, Metrolistmls. The results of both these queries shocked me (perhaps someone can double check my queries). Thi...
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