This article looks back on the big topics reported on the first tuesday journal in 2011 and forecasts the state of California’s real estate market and economy for 2012 and the years ahead.
This article discusses the purported moral implications of a homeowner’s decision to strategically default and why no such implications exist for a strategically defaulting business.
This article examines the financial viability of homeownership in the wake of the housing crash, and how the housing crash impacted ideas about mortgage spending and commuting.
This article looks at the rule that all offers, written or oral and regardless of form, received by a seller’s agent must be promptly submitted to the seller for their acceptance, rejection or counter, and dispels the myth that California real estate brokers and their agents are only allowed to use real estate forms published by trade unions.
This article provides tips for building your brokerage practice and creating personal wealth during real estate’s enduring bumpy plateau recovery.
Current U.S. financial policy sustains an unbridgeable gap between the demands of those who owe and those who are owed. This article explains why things didn’t have to be this way.
Part I of this article series comments on the coming depopulation of suburbia as the highly educated Generation Y and retiring Baby Boomers return to California’s urban cores.
This article reviews a recent poll on American attitudes towards owning a home in light of the Great Recession and the housing crisis, and reevaluates the place of homeownership in the American Dream.
This article identifies the origin of the tax loopholes used to implement the nation’s housing policy, and proposes a tax benefit which rewards homeownership without first requiring a mortgage debt or resale.
This article analyzes the causes of California’s current foreclosure crisis, dissects the toxic results of negative equity on the real estate market and proposes local and federal action to remedy widespread insolvency.
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