Especially in the wake of HVCC, we frequently hear laments that the appraiser killed a deal, or variants thereof. Can we all back up a moment here and understand what is / is not going on? We often hear something along the lines that the fair market value of a property is the price that a willin
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08/31/2009
The following is a good read on what is going on in the credit reporting world http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-fico-model-may-boost-some-borrowers-scores-2009-08-24?siteid=nwhpf The short is that the FICO scoring system has been revamped to attempt to better predict risk. "Ulzheimer said. B
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08/24/2009
Originally posted at Global Edge, Friday, August 21, 2009, http://www.globaledge.co.uk/news/google-caffeine-to-impact-overseas-prope-33988 and reposted by Inman News, http://www.inman.com/opinion/guest-perspective/2009/08/21/google-caffeine-impact-overseas-property was an article on the next gene
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08/24/2009
As anyone whose read any of my posts by now has figured out, I'm quite the data geek. My wife would leave off the "data" adjective. Anyway, I came across a site, http://www.zipcodeguy.com/blog/free-zip-code-database/, that might prove useful for anyone wanting a database of zipcodes. Yes - th
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08/19/2009
The San Diego Residential Real Estate Market is down to one month of inventory in most price ranges for single family detached homes and down to three months of inventory for attached homes. Is inventory a "cause" or an "effect" or a little of both? Anyone who is active in the market already kno
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08/19/2009
A month ago I posted that San Diego Residential Real Estate Sales Volumes are "Normal". Although accurate (we are within 1-sigma of average sales volumes), it did not address our shrinking inventory. That lack of inventory driving our supply and demand behavior, has pushed prices up. The follo
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08/18/2009
The other day I posted Add a FREE "Analyze This" Widget to Your Listings allowing you to create a customized widget that will show your clients how a property fares as a potential investment. Today I've created another quick tool to allow you to create a widget to let your clients find good REO o
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08/16/2009
Wow, I had a great chance to meet a ton of interesting people at the Inman conference in San Francisco. There were about 20 of us in the "Startup Alley" showing off the newest technology in real estate. Some of the most notable were: - FinestExpert.com - cash flow search engine and the first ev
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08/05/2009
Approximately 1/3 of all homes are owned by investors. Are you helping investors decide to buy your properties? When we created FinestExpert.com our objective was to provide intelligent search for such investors by allowing them to search by financial criteria first. Because we pre-analyze all ac
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08/02/2009
