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 market chart presents 2011′s successes in the world of real estate: the thirty brokers who employ the largest number of agents.

A collection of charts, updated continuously, with up-to-date information and predictions about the business of real estate. Click chart for article The 30 Top Brokers in CA by Number Employed: The number of agents employed by California’s 29 largest brokers in Dec. 2010 and 2011. Click above for additional charts and article RE Broker and [...]

The month of December saw no change in the overall rate of California unemployment, which remains at its lowest point since mid-2009. Note that this does not indicate an increase in the employed population. Instead, the declined unemployment rate reflects the fact that more and more people are leaving the work force entirely.The labor force [...]

This article explains the effect of negative equity on homeowner mobility, identifies the factor which influence migration and advises how brokers and agents can counsel homeowners considering relocating under the conditions of this Lesser Depression.

This article lists the top nine reasons why housing will not lead the U.S. economy into recovery and critiques the misconception that housing is an economic driver capable of rescuing a failing economy.

This article warns of the impending era of due-on-sale enforcement that will befall the real estate market in the approaching age of rising interest rates.

This article discusses the need for a written employment agreement to assure payment of any fee anticipated for finding a match and negotiating a real estate related transaction, and reviews the fee assurance offered by provisions in various types of listing and purchase agreements.

This article discusses popular misconceptions about the causes of the 2008 economic crisis, and how ungrounded efficiency-theory economists and very senior policy makers failed to recognize the clear warning signs emanating from Wall Street’s mortgage banking industry.

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.