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Lists, Need More Lists… (Your 3-11 Foreclosure Lists Have Arrived)

On the heels of today’s federal reserve announcement
that they’re injecting $200 billion into the economy in hopes reviving the ailing markets, here are your latest East Bay foreclosure lists.
Download All the East Bay Foreclosure / REO Lists at Once (.zip file)
Entire Alameda County Single Family Foreclosure / REO List
Northern Alameda Residential Foreclosure / REO List
Southern […]

East Bay Housing Market Stats: Another REO Surprise!

As a follow-up to last month’s REO surprise, “that one out of every five listings in the SF Bay Area is REO, Bank Owned Properties,” we asked ourselves another question.
What is really influencing housing inventory and pricing in the SF Bay Area?
We’ve always heard that new construction has been the main culprit with overbuilding […]

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up (File #020408)

While out in the field this morning, Glen saw this sign in a house’s front yard.

Cool, right? Lots of people own rental property and are looking for renters to fill their empty units…
The only problem is that it was in the front yard in one of our listings and I’m pretty sure that the […]

If This Stimulus Package Goes Through…

…expect a big pickup in Bay Area real estate activity.

from SFgate:
Besides its core purpose of providing tax refunds, the tentative package - which still has several hurdles to clear - essentially rewrites the definition of “jumbo” loan, raising the cap from its current $417,000 to as high as $729,750 in high-cost areas for one year.
The […]

Changing the Conversation Over @ Trulia Voices

If you look on the right sidebar, you’ll see that I’m a ‘Local Ambassador’ for the SF based Real Estate search site Trulia. Basically this means that every now and then, I take some time to answer questions from home buyers and sellers on Trulia Voices.
I used to really enjoy doing it, but […]

Follow Me at twitter.com/andykaufman (2008-01-16)

It’s absurd that I can’t clone an expired listing. I know that they’re trying to stop people from gaming the system, but c’mon. #
New Mastersounds: Live at Quixote’s on 2007-06-01 getting me through the afternoon - http://urltea.com/2iyf #
Tracking a new metric: % of REOs / Active Listings #foreclosures #housing #

Reactions to Today’s Bank of America/Countrywide Acquisition News

Big waves continue to ripple across the mortgage & real estate industries, as people begin to digest the news that Bank of America agreed to buy Countrywide for $4.1 Billion in Stock.
I know what you’re thinking… $4 MORE billion after basically throwing $2billion down the drain a few short months ago. Don’t worry, they […]

Quit Hiding Behind that Computer & Cross the Digital Divide

I love online social networking.
In fact, a good portion of my online life in 2007 seemed to revolve around social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, among others With a bit of effort on my part, I’ve managed to build a quite sizable network of ‘friends’ within these sites fairly quickly.
Now, having a […]

Are Zillow, Trulia, Yahoo! & Google Ready to Adopt RETS?

Yesterday, in an open letter to the heavyweights of real estate tech, newly-elected chair of the Real Estate Standards Organization, Michael Wurzer called on them to join together with the real estate community in supporting the Real Estate Transaction Standard (”RETS”).
In response to his letter, he got commitments from all 4 to meet during […]

My Choice for Unchained Melodies: Go To Sleep & Wake Up

Over at BloodhoundBlog, Greg Swann has been posting videos of theme song suggestions for the upcoming BloodhoundBlog Unchained conference that they’re putting on in Pnoenix in May.
Here’s a couple of passionate songs & performances that I think would be great choices and ones that I’d like to throw into the mix.
The first one […]

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