Real Estate & Mortgage Insight & Commentary for The San Francisco Bay Area: Category Archive for Economics

With Rates at Historic Lows, What's Next?

A Thanksgiving Gift from First Time Home Buyers

Insider Tips for Home Loan Shoppers

Sept' 09 Bay Area Real Estate Market Activity Results

How to be a Sucessful Buyer of a Short Sale or Foreclosure

Like a Celestial Alignment-A Rarely Seen Convergence of Events that Benefit Home-Buyers

Is it Time to get off the Real Estate Roller Ride?

Are You Moving at the Speed of Opportunity or Watching from the Sidelines?

The "Shadow Inventory" of Upcoming Foreclosures. Fact or Myth?

"Worst of the Real Estate Recession Over" Declares Economist

Is Thuis A Buyers Market,Sellers Market of What?

Foreclosure Scams Increase-California $100 Million Homebuyer Tax Credit Fund Nearly Exhausted

Bay Area Median Home Prices on the Rise!

How NY Attorney General Stuck it to consumers!

Median Home Prices Got You Down? How Median Price Reports Skew Value!

Five Reasons Why Now is the Perfect Time to Buy a Home

Put Our Rent vs Buy Calculators to Work for You

Another Reason Now is the Time to Buy a Home in California

How to Buy a Foreclosure Directly from Fannie Mae

How Refinancing Saved My Client $40,000

Combine California's $10,000 Tax Credit and the $8,000 Federal Tax Credit

Ten Tips-How to be a Sucessful Seller in a Buyers Market

Text Version-Market Update 2/11/09

Video Market Update-Senate Delivers Good News to Homeowners and Homebuyers-Fannie Mae Foreclosure Purchase

Market Update Video by Russ Boyd-New Legislation Affecting Homeowners

Market Update-Buyers Seminar-Lower Property Taxes-Refinance

Are Fixed Rates Below 5% Possible?

Facts and Myths about the Financial Crisis of 2008-A Report by Federal Reserve Bank Economists

Depression Fears Overblown

A Perspective on the $700 Billion Economic Stabilization Package

The First Republic Prestige Home Index for San Francisco..

Five Year Bay Area County by County Snapshot of Home Value Appreciation

Key Provisions of the Comprehensive Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Legislation

10 Good Things About $4 Gas

Pending Home Sales Up-Foreclosure Filings Down

Summary of Recent Fed Moves and Market Response

Quick Reference to New Jumbo Conforming Loan Limits and Guidelines

Time Magazine "Ignore the Headlines"

The Homeowners’ Property Tax Exemption–An Important Benefit for You

New Conforming Loan Limit Cap $729,950

Increase in Conforming Loan Limit to $625,000 or more!

Bay Area Cost vs. Remodel Report 2007

A Normal Market: Outlook Shows Steadying Picture

Foreclosure Activity for the Nation’s 100 Largest MSAs – Q3 2007

The Q3 2007 Conventional Mortgage Home Price Index Classic Series

October 2007 Median Sale Prices

Read First Republic Bank's Third Quarter Report- "San Francisco Bay Area values were the strongest in the state."

August 2007 Home Sales Prices

Fed Rate Cut and August Economic Report