What the housing bubble looked like up close and personal

Posted on November 5th, 2009 at 08:16pm  |  Add comment

I thought it would be interesting to look at the sale prices of condos in the condo complex where we rent in Downey, CA. The graph speaks for itself. Prices in Southern California were completely out of touch with reality. Look at the bubble in the early 90’s. Prices only went up by 50% and [...]

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Did things get as bad as I thought?

Posted on January 8th, 2009 at 09:00am  |  1 comment

Back in August of 2007 I wrote this post, Someone forgot to refill the Real Estate ATM, and predicted that we would see a continued drop in prices, foreclosures would go up and so on. What I didn’t see coming was a big drop in the stock market, sharp increase in unemployment and the massive [...]

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Shared: Analyst sees ‘ghost town’ in Inland Empire

Posted on July 8th, 2008 at 08:00am  |  Add comment

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Analyst sees ‘ghost town’ in Inland Empire

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Housing Bubble On 60 Minutes

Posted on February 4th, 2008 at 05:00pm  |  Add comment

This is some the best mainstream media Housing Bubble coverage I’ve seen and it spells things out pretty clearly. If you aren’t sure what exactly is going on this is a pretty good 15 minute overview of the current situation.
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The Downey Housing Bubble

Posted on January 6th, 2008 at 11:16am  |  Add comment

Dr. Housing Bubble featured Downey this week in an edition of Real Homes of Genius that shows just how screwed up things are in housing right now. I couldn’t buy a house even if I wanted to and it’s not like I’m making minimum wage. As long as prices are out of touch with people’s [...]

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