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Home Front

A blog about the economy and the Sacramento-area real estate market.

2010.09.10: That's a wrap...
2010.09.07: Sacramento hotels: filling more rooms than last year
2010.09.07: CalHFA introduces 30-year first-time buyer fixed loan at 4%
2010.09.01: Small businesses expect a double dip
2010.08.31: We're hearing about huge uncertainty at HomEq
2010.08.26: CoreLogic: 43.4% of Sacramento-area mortgages "underwater"
2010.08.24: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right - here I am stuck in a short sale w/you
2010.08.24: Sacramento's Township 9 takes top state honors
2010.08.24: Sacramento builders scale back on single-family houses in July
2010.08.23: Sacramento: new home sales still trending lower than 2009
2010.08.23: Coldwell Banker names Kris Vogt Sacramento-area president
2010.08.20: Unemployment stalls at 12.3 percent statewide; Sacramento, 12.7 percent
2010.08.19: Coming Friday: unemployment report
2010.08.19: Home sales nose dive in Sacramento, too
2010.08.19: Bay Area sales fall in July; Interest Rates fall even lower
2010.08.18: Sacramento-area home sales fall 29% in July from June
2010.08.17: Latinos take hardest blow in foreclosure crisis
2010.08.17: July home sales tumble in Southern California
2010.08.16: Tips for the unemployed: Finding work, saving money
2010.08.16: Calif. homebuilding industry is a shadow of its former self
2010.08.16: What's REALLY going on with banks and the government?
2010.08.16: Bhamani family's Heaven Investments draws fire from feds
2010.08.11: $476M more coming to Calif. to help unemployed homeowners
2010.08.11: Economy still hurting Red Hawk Casino
2010.08.09: Sacramento County DA's office expands Real Estate Fraud Unit
2010.08.09: Zillow: Negative equity rate receeding across Sacramento
2010.08.06: Lots of financial strain in Sacramento commercial real estate
2010.08.06: FTB shuts off fax for first-time buyer tax credits Aug 15
2010.08.06: FHA unveils new refi program for underwater borrowers
2010.08.05: Four allegedly unlicensed contractors stung in Nevada County
2010.08.05: Legalized pot cultivation may rock the world of landlords
2010.08.05: Banks pull a no-show for hearing into pullback on HELOC's
2010.08.05: Clear Capital: Sac-area home prices up 8.4% from last year
2010.08.04: Davis, Folsom listed among top small cities for tech companies
2010.08.03: Big bank "seconds" asking agents to do illegal side deals?
2010.08.03: "Know Your Options" Web site unveiled by Fannie Mae
2010.07.28: Furloughs II: more pain for Sacramento's economy
2010.07.26: CalSTRS dealing in New York
2010.07.26: Storefronts filling up again - slowly
2010.07.26: CA's June housing starts beat June 2009, but not in Sacramento
2010.07.22: Vacancies dip in commercial real estate
2010.07.22: Home prices still inching up
2010.07.21: Foreclosures tick up, but defaults continue falling
2010.07.20: More evidence of slump in new-home sales
2010.07.15: UOP Forecasting Center sees no "double-dip" in California
2010.07.15: Sacramento-area June home sales highest since Oct. '08
2010.07.15: Bay Area: June home sales top May
2010.07.14: Sacramento County sales rise again, prices edge toward $200K
2010.07.14: California roundup: June sales, HPI, foreclosure reports
2010.07.13: Activists: CalHFA principal writedown plan is bank "bailout"
2010.07.12: Calling all homebuyers....and/or freaked out state workers
2010.07.12: Wells Fargo: Housing double-dip not likely in California
2010.07.12: Foreclosure crisis bites harder on Latinos & African-Americans
2010.07.09: Sacramento new-home sales post lowest quarter yet
2010.07.07: Sacramento-area loan distress rates ease for 4th month
2010.07.06: West Sac Workshop: Navigating the foreclosure process
2010.07.02: West Sacramento opens its newest "affordable" housing
2010.07.01: Farewell to Bustos Media (and Furlough Fridays)
2010.06.30: Best books about the housing crash and financial meltdown
2010.06.28: More movement on state pension cuts
2010.06.28: Will job market rebound? History says yes
2010.06.25: California's first-time homebuyer tax credits: going, going....
2010.06.24: May Single-family home starts rise 9.6% in Sacramento
2010.06.24: Sacramento woman headed to jail for credit card fraud
2010.06.24: Sacramento credit union deposits signal a stronger consumer
2010.06.24: Elk Grove: Places of the real estate meltdown
2010.06.23: U.S.: more than 6,200 permanent loan mods in Sacramento
2010.06.23: CalHFA gets federal nod for $700 million plan to help borrowers
2010.06.22: FBI issues its 2009 mortgage fraud report
2010.06.18: Attorney General issues alert about rising short sale scams
2010.06.18: Sacramento's May home sales strongest for month in 4 years
2010.06.18: Where Sacramentans move - and who's moving here
2010.06.18: California unemployment falls to 12.4 percent
2010.06.17: 80 percent of Calif. first-time buyer tax credit is gone
2010.06.16: Fed grand jury indicts 10 - five in Elk Grove - on mortgage fraud
2010.06.15: TrendGraphix: Median sales prices up 3% in past year
2010.06.15: Southern California: median prices break $300,000 barrier
2010.06.15: An improbable answer to delinquencies: doing nothing
2010.06.14: Valley watch: Another federal real estate fraud indictment
2010.06.11: Vallejo sisters face plead guilty to bank fraud in real estate deals
2010.06.11: Consumers are confident - but they're not spending
2010.06.10: A bump in state tax revenue
2010.06.10: CalSTRS sues over W.Va. coal mine disaster
2010.06.10: Business confidence soars - in the Bay Area
2010.06.08: 10 ways to help sell that house
2010.06.08: Sacramento Co. median price highest since Sept. 2008
2010.06.08: Countrywide to pay $108 million for overcharging the desperate
2010.06.07: Roseville: still building houses (sort of) like the old days
2010.06.03: 12.2% of Sacramento-area mortgages are in distress
2010.06.03: Aerojet's solar plant grows
2010.06.02: Two more years of discount flood insurance in Natomas
2010.06.02: More hiring at Thunder Valley
2010.05.29: An old Libbys warehouse gets a Sutter Pediatrics makeover
2010.05.29: Market-rate apartment construction dead in Sacramento
2010.05.28: Elk Grove: A new small sign of rebalancing the housing market
2010.05.26: Economy's up; so's the market
2010.05.25: 72-year-old Sacramento real estate investor pleads guilty
2010.05.21: Unemployment stuck at 12.6% in California
2010.05.20: Brown announces arrests in huge alleged loan mod scam
2010.05.20: Sacramento: April home prices and sales numbers by ZIP
2010.05.20: Red Hawk still sluggish
2010.05.19: CoreLogic: Sacramento home prices to rise 1.93% in next year
2010.05.19: Foreclosure situation in California is finally improving
2010.05.18: 2009: Sacramento foreclosures touch nearly 20,000 renters
2010.05.18: Sacramento homebuilders still search for recovery signs
2010.05.18: "Baby steps on a long road to recovery"
2010.05.17: Permanent loan modifications rising slowly in Sacramento
2010.05.17: 2,470 apply already for first-time homebuyer tax credits
2010.05.14: Sacramento mortgage fraud indictments: Change your name, buy a house
2010.05.14: The budget and the economy
2010.05.13: Top 15 Sacramento-area home builders, Q1 2010
2010.05.13: 80% of first-time buyers can afford a house in Sacramento
2010.05.13: Sacramento: new home sales up from Feb. but slump continues
2010.05.12: Online real estate searches shift toward rentals
2010.05.12: America's top 100 homebuilders last year
2010.05.12: Sacramento County: Q1 home sales down 20% from year earlier
2010.05.12: Pension funds: We're complying with Iran law
2010.05.10: Has your house trapped you in Sacramento's unemployment?
2010.05.10: California's homebuyer tax credit: what you need to know
2010.05.10: Report: 45 percent of Sacramento mortgages are underwater
2010.05.06: Another fast and enviable V-Shape Asian recovery in Taiwan
2010.05.06: Big lawsuit in CalPERS scandal
2010.05.05: An improving job market?
2010.05.05: CalPERS wins a round vs. Wall Street agencies
2010.05.05: Meanwhile, things are still bumpy in California...
2010.05.02: Land-locked Singapore shows the way on smart growth
2010.04.28: Sempra to pay $410 million over energy crisis
2010.04.27: "Global" financial crisis is an Atlantic issue, Asians say
2010.04.27: CalPERS: keeping the pressure on
2010.04.27: China considers property taxes to stop a housing bubble
2010.04.22: New car sales rise
2010.04.22: Rents rising again at Sacramento-area apartment communities
2010.04.20: Sacramento region up to 56,000 foreclosures since this began
2010.04.16: Sacramento's homebuilders still in a rut
2010.04.16: Office market still stagnant
2010.04.16: Jobs rebound, but California unemployment at 12.6 percent
2010.04.15: March home sales climb dramatically in Sacramento region
2010.04.14: A banker's answer to life's big mortgage question
2010.04.13: Defaults down in California, but foreclosures are up
2010.04.13: March sales-price numbers start to roll in from California
2010.04.13: CalPERS, CalSTRS might revise housing policies
2010.04.12: Gov. Schwarzenegger signs mortgage debt relief bill
2010.04.12: Factories bouncing back?
2010.04.08: Sacramento ranks third for distressed sale market share
2010.04.08: There will be no state taxes on forgiven mortgage debt
2010.04.07: Sacramento outpaces state and U.S. or late mortgage payments
2010.04.06: California Dept. of Real Estate warns of short sale fraud
2010.04.06: Short sales spread to a Sacramento apartment complex
2010.04.05: Freedom from taxes on forgiven mortgage debt imminent
2010.04.02: Sacramento a Top 10 destination for U-Hauls in 2009
2010.04.02: Inquiry commission calls Greenspan before the cameras
2010.04.02: Is it OK for Sacramento-area real estate agents to double dip?
2010.04.01: Pacific Ethanol loses money but makes progress
2010.03.29: Pacific Ethanol's bankruptcy plan
2010.03.29: 'Cool cars' rule put on ice
2010.03.29: Solar plant coming to McClellan
2010.03.29: California incomes - lower and lower
2010.03.29: 10-hour foreclosure prevention session Fri. in Citrus Heights
2010.03.26: Job losses resume in California; unemployment at 12.5%
2010.03.25: State buyer tax credits approved, debt forgiveness stalls
2010.03.25: GenCorp reports a loss
2010.03.24: Cal Neva casino to close temporarily
2010.03.23: Another round of state homebuyer tax credits virtually assured
2010.03.19: Sacramento-area sales slow in February; picking up for spring
2010.03.18:
2010.03.18: Midtown Sacramento: There's no place like home
2010.03.18: Can't move from Sacramento for work; house "upside down"
2010.03.17: A new look at "strategic defaults" in California
2010.03.15: Politics, politics over mortgage debt forgiveness in California
2010.03.15: A typical slow February for Sacramento home sales
2010.03.13: Inland Empire's housing meltdown drives 15% unemployment
2010.03.12: 170,207 permanent U.S. loan mods include 2,921 in Sac area
2010.03.12: Washington D.C. makes way for short sales
2010.03.12: Red Hawk Casino: Still disappointing
2010.03.11: Financial crisis commission looks at subprime securitization
2010.03.11: CalPERS' Boston project dies
2010.03.08: Bill to ban state taxes on forgiven mortgage debt goes to Gov.
2010.03.08: Sneak preview of Obama's new rules for short sales
2010.03.08: Deal reduces debt for Pacific Ethanol
2010.03.05: Job growth returns, but 2009 was worse than originally thought
2010.03.05: Herbert Salguero's lonely struggle with Litton to save his home
2010.03.04: 12.3% of Sacramento-area mortgages in trouble - and rising
2010.03.02: Four proposals for K Street
2010.03.02: About that CalPERS investment...
2010.03.01: Stories upon stories upon stories of worrisome choices
2010.03.01: Scam altert: agents report fake rental postings on Craigslist
2010.02.25: Hey - where's my data?
2010.02.24: A new owner for Elk Grove Promenade?
2010.02.24: Bill targets CalPERS, CalSTRS housing deals
2010.02.17: Massive foreclosure prevention session coming to Sacramento
2010.02.16: "The video" and the FDIC response
2010.02.16: January home sales, prices, fall slightly in Southern California
2010.02.16: Signs of life in commercial real estate
2010.02.16: A bid for Promenade's developer
2010.02.12: Home builders sell 3,012 homes in Sacramento area in 2009
2010.02.12: New GM at Red Hawk Casino
2010.02.11: Homebuilding to rebound in 2010, sort of
2010.02.10: One in four Sacramento County home buyers pay cash
2010.02.10: Angelides' Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission sets 2nd hearing
2010.02.10: Hearings to commence for Sacramento's Curtis Park Village
2010.02.10: Green company gets funding
2010.02.09: Folsom tech firm in big takeover
2010.02.09: Sacramento buyers claim surprise at tiny California tax credit
2010.02.09: Report alleges lenders still crushing poor neighborhoods
2010.02.09: Report says banks still crushing poor neighborhoods
2010.02.05: "Buyers guilt" - Placer County style
2010.02.04: What to pay first: mortgage or credit cards?
2010.02.04: Foreclosures cost Sacramento $2.7 billion in lost home equity
2010.02.04: Delinquencies still haven't leveled off in Sacramento region
2010.02.04: Sales of million-dollar homes fall across capital and California
2010.02.04: Fewer pink slips ahead in California
2010.02.03: GenCorp earnings rise
2010.02.02: Legislature mulls three homebuyer tax credit bills
2010.02.01: HUD's official report on "Roots of the Foreclosure Crisis."
2010.01.29: The best story you'll ever read on loan modification hell
2010.01.29: A strong quarter
2010.01.28: Too many offices, too few tenants
2010.01.28: New car sales in steep decline
2010.01.27: Foreclosure crisis slowing some as banks rethink strategies
2010.01.26: Data center opens
2010.01.25: Would the world end if we let foreclosures just play out?
2010.01.25: CalPERS' New York deal collapses
2010.01.22: FHA has high market share in Sacramento area
2010.01.22: California unemployment: 12.4 percent
2010.01.21: Unemployment: up or down?
2010.01.21: Sacramento County ends 2009 with same price as it opened
2010.01.21: Bay Area climbing out of the housing downturn
2010.01.20: Southern California pulls out of "nose dive" in home prices
2010.01.18: Russ Solomon on life after Tower Records: 'R5's doing OK'
2010.01.17: Has this CalPERS hitch also happened to you?
2010.01.15: It's going to be slow around here for awhile
2010.01.15: Worst year for builders since the 1950s
2010.01.14: The Great Recession is hard on capital's hotels
2010.01.14: 2009 home sales fall 3% below 2008 in Sac Co./West Sac
2010.01.14: Nearly 12% of Sacramento-area mortgages in big distress
2010.01.13: Unemployment at 13.5 percent?
2010.01.12: Putting bankers on the hot seat (on live TV)
2010.01.08: Bridge Housing gets first nod for Curtis Park Village dwellings
2010.01.08: About that UC Davis-Tiger Woods study...
2010.01.08: Factories bouncing back?
2010.01.06: The Geography of Recession
2010.01.06: Schwarzenegger proposes new state $10K homebuyer tax credit
2010.01.04: Will our cheaper housing help this economy rebound?
2010.01.04: More forecasting: still "a ways to go" before bottom
2009.12.31: Looking for some help regarding "The New Stability"
2009.12.30: A CalPERS real estate loss
2009.12.28: 33 % more energy efficient at Gateway Oaks office buildings
2009.12.28: Layoffs at Jackson Rancheria
2009.12.28: A look back at a roller-coaster decade
2009.12.22: Angelides' Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission sets Jan. hearing
2009.12.22: California home prices post first YOY gain since Aug. 2007
2009.12.21: About 13 percent of U.S. mortgages aren't "performing"
2009.12.21: Market tracker: capital prices will rise 4.6 percent in next year
2009.12.21: State Realtors' group extends mortgage protection program
2009.12.18: Unemployment falls, but job cuts resume
2009.12.17: "Where has all the optimism gone?"
2009.12.17: Negative equity, foreclosures and shadow inventory
2009.12.17: Sac County home prices post first Y-O-Y gain since May 2006
2009.12.15: Sac County's Nov. median price rises above Nov. 2008
2009.12.15: Lenders are cancelling more foreclosures
2009.12.15: Median price in Southern California is same as a year ago
2009.12.11: Kings' value: $305 million
2009.12.10: Another look at a troubled CalPERS investment
2009.12.09: Ritz-Carlton Highlands opens at Northstar near Lake Tahoe
2009.12.08: 2010: More of the same, says CB Richard Ellis
2009.12.07: Oh thank Heaven.....
2009.12.03: At the end of the repo road a house gets new life
2009.12.03: Californians' confidence: weak, but improving
2009.12.02: Elk Grove mall fate still unknown despite progress on bankruptcy
2009.12.02: Uptick in online shopping
2009.11.30: Shades of gray on Black Friday (and Cyber Monday)
2009.11.28: Government turning toward Plan B as banks stall modifications
2009.11.27: What meltdown? People will spend for toys
2009.11.27: News on the foreclosure front
2009.11.25: There's No Place Like Home
2009.11.24: Housing starts rise in region as they fall statewide
2009.11.24: FHA's newest look at U.S. home prices across metro areas
2009.11.23: That long, slow fall in capital-area home prices
2009.11.20: Midtown in the rain
2009.11.20: A first serious prediction of rising values ahead in Sacramento
2009.11.20: Friday catch-up: A look at U.S. and California loan delinquencies
2009.11.20: Sayonara to that $10K state tax credit for new-home buyers
2009.11.20: State unemployment at 12.5 percent, but job growth returns
2009.11.19: Some capital-area price declines back to single digits
2009.11.18: Wells Fargo in $1.4 billion settlement
2009.11.17: Orange, San Diego counties and Bay Area see annual price gains
2009.11.16: Down so far that a "lackluster market" is a good thing
2009.11.09: Workers' comp - how high?
2009.11.06: Mexican consulate steps in to do foreclosure prevention
2009.11.06: Explaining that federal homebuyer tax credit
2009.11.06: Sac-area new home sales will reach 1999 levels again in 2016
2009.11.06: World's finest new buildings
2009.11.05: "This is probably the last extension"
2009.11.05: Survey says commercial loan defaults fall
2009.11.05: CRL: California foreclosures threaten to derail recovery
2009.11.05: Red Hawk still struggling
2009.11.03: Midtown's Sutter Brownstones recognized as model infill
2009.10.30: Why more people don't "walk away" from their mortgages
2009.10.30: About that recovery...
2009.10.30: Calif. AG to banks: how will you avert Option ARM armageddon?
2009.10.28: A huge stimulus win for Sacramento homeowners, business
2009.10.27: Class-action lawsuit targets Pulte Home over housing crash
2009.10.26: K. Hovnanian's statement on the Natomas permits issue
2009.10.26: California on track for 530,000 existing home sales in 2009
2009.10.26: Homebuilding's crash is worsening
2009.10.26: Most underwater borrowers getting no help
2009.10.23: A sobering outlook for Sacramento office market
2009.10.22: Here's how your apartment rent stacks up in CA's capital region
2009.10.22: Another setback on big CalPERS real estate deal
2009.10.20: Brown vs. State Street
2009.10.20: Q3: Number of CA defaults decline, foreclosures rise slightly
2009.10.19: All you need to to know about your new property tax bill
2009.10.19: We're expecting Sac-area Q3 foreclosure statistics Tuesday
2009.10.19: Big guns ask for 1-year extension of $8K homebuyer tax credit
2009.10.16: Capital-area homebuilders weather another harsh quarter
2009.10.16: California, Sacramento unemployment fall
2009.10.15: New September home sales data from MDA DataQuick
2009.10.14: CA Senate votes to extend $10K tax credit for new-home buyers
2009.10.14: Two upcoming foreclosure prevention workshops
2009.10.13: O'Toole: There IS no shadow inventory of bank-owned homes
2009.10.13: Management change at Red Hawk Casino
2009.10.12: Sales dip in September, median price falls, too
2009.10.12: A new president for AKT
2009.10.12: New law regulates pension fund agents
2009.10.08: What park maintenance is coming to in Sacramento?
2009.10.08: Horror stories about servicers from a front-line loan counselor
2009.10.08: GenCorp earnings rebound
2009.10.07: California housing in 2010: key trade group makes forecast
2009.10.06: California's top real estate agents increasingly "wired"
2009.10.02: The economy: One step forward, two steps back?
2009.09.30: Gasoline usage goes back up, finally
2009.09.24: CalPERS fires back, electronically
2009.09.24: How Sacramento shrank in '08
2009.09.18: California unemployment: 12.2 percent
2009.09.18: Those were the days
2009.09.17: Region's home sales are falling again
2009.09.17: California goes after the rating agencies, again
2009.09.16: $10M in stimulus funds for empty downtown senior high-rise
2009.09.15: Pulte sweeps Sacramento region in J.D. Power awards
2009.09.15: Median prices rise 4th straight month in Southern California
2009.09.15: Recession nearly over, UOP says
2009.09.15: Hanley Wood's 209 Housing Forecast: seeing a little light now
2009.09.14: What's selling?
2009.09.14: Median price rising toward $200K again in Sacramento County
2009.09.14: Extension of new-home buyer tax credit fails to pass
2009.09.11: Consumer confidence slips
2009.09.10: On economic theory
2009.09.10: C.C. Myers' home for sale
2009.09.08: Tax credits for buyers of new Calif. homes breathing new life
2009.09.03: Should cities divest from banks that don't modify mortgages?
2009.09.03: Curtis Park Village won't be a "toxic time bomb"
2009.09.03: Sacramento books largest convention ever
2009.09.01: Crackdown on loan modification firms passes state Senate
2009.08.31: What banks are thinking
2009.08.31: How "walkability" drives up your home's value
2009.08.31: Good call: He sold in 2005, rented, then bought a repo in 2008
2009.08.31: Testy exchange of words over Curtis Park Village
2009.08.28: Who lost NUMMI?
2009.08.28: CalPERS vs. Lehman Brothers
2009.08.27: Toyota plant in Fremont to close
2009.08.27: Prices fall, taxes rise
2009.08.21: Sacramento-area home sales reach 2009 high in July
2009.08.21: California unemployment: 11.9 percent
2009.08.20: Foreclosure Belt Congressional reps want more loan mods
2009.08.20: Lost jobs, prime fixed loans now driving foreclosure starts
2009.08.19: CalPERS sues over furloughs
2009.08.19: Another casino foreclosure...
2009.08.18: Pulte and Centex get the go-ahead to merge two giants
2009.08.17: Investor lands Laing's Folsom Treehouse in foreclosure sale
2009.08.16: Two views from Curtis Parks on Curtis Park Village
2009.08.14: Prime time for tiny houses
2009.08.14: Sacramento County turns a little less affordable
2009.08.14: And plenty of short sales are in escrow....
2009.08.13: Sacramento County median holds at $180K three months running
2009.08.13: Bad times for commercial real estate
2009.08.13: More than half of Sacramento-area mortages are under water
2009.08.13: Construction starts on new senior homes in Roseville
2009.08.12: Workers' comp rates may rise again
2009.08.12: Soon to be hitched: Pulte Homes and Centex Homes
2009.08.12: Sacramento's railyard, as viewed by the national media
2009.08.10: Bad June swoon for Sacramento-area homebuilders
2009.08.10: Sidney B. Dunmore still looking for the next big chance
2009.08.07: Losses grow for Pacific Ethanol
2009.08.07: 800 square feet: The smallest new house in Sacramento
2009.08.07: Sacramento, where the jobs are
2009.08.07: Still sluggish at Red Hawk
2009.08.07: Paul Petrovich: "I'm a developer. That doesn't mean I'm evil."
2009.08.06: More and more people are living underwater
2009.08.06: First-time buyers: get your loan paid if you lose your job
2009.08.06: How Sacramentans went backwards in 2008
2009.08.06: More layoffs ahead in California
2009.08.04: Loan modifications are still in the slow lane
2009.08.04: Retail: vacancies everywhere
2009.07.30: 9.5 percent of Sacramento-area mortgages are late
2009.07.30: North End Lofts fills up with new owners
2009.07.29: Lawsuit attempts to block state IOUs
2009.07.28: Bankruptcy for Thunder Valley's management firm
2009.07.27: California - a 4th straight month of rising median prices
2009.07.27: How are you shopping online for a house?
2009.07.27: Defaults starting to tag wealthier Sacramento-area ZIP Codes
2009.07.27: The California business climate
2009.07.24: Curtis Park warily eyes a massive new neighbor
2009.07.24: Car sales still skidding
2009.07.24: They're still starting new houses........
2009.07.23: CalPERS in big shopping center deal
2009.07.22: More vacant warehouses, industrial buildings
2009.07.22: City agrees to buy IOUs
2009.07.22: Mortgage Defaults fall slightly in second quarter
2009.07.21: House prices declining at a slower pace
2009.07.21: CalPERS and CalSTRS: both down 20 percent-plus
2009.07.20: Lower rents for state landlords
2009.07.20: Sacramento might pay cash for IOUs
2009.07.17: A CalPERS setback
2009.07.17: Problems with CIT? We'd like to hear from you
2009.07.17: Sales dip below last year with fewer repos on market
2009.07.17: Citi: Another reprieve on IOUs
2009.07.17: California unemployment: 11.6 percent
2009.07.15: June sales at three-year high in Los Angeles region
2009.07.15: Start trading those IOUs
2009.07.15: A note of optimism
2009.07.14: Unemployment to top 13% in Sacramento?
2009.07.14: Reminder: big foreclosure prevention event Thursday
2009.07.13: Quite possibly our last Gottschalks post
2009.07.13: More downsizing in the gambling industry
2009.07.13: 133 area homes fetch $11.5 million at auction
2009.07.13: Government default? Here?
2009.07.10: Short sales on the rise in Sacramento
2009.07.10: California's homebuilders sell 3,019 houses, condos in May
2009.07.09: Elk Grove cuts its home builder fees
2009.07.09: Parents pulling their kids out from "underwater"
2009.07.09: New face of the mortgage crisis: prime fixed-rate mortgages
2009.07.07: A hot investment?
2009.07.06: Free foreclosure prevention event in Sacramento
2009.07.06: More on pets left behind in foreclosures
2009.07.06: Layoffs, less income for small biz leading face of default wave
2009.07.06: From subprime to loan modification for Orange Co. office space
2009.07.04: Home Sweet Home (with explosions in the street)
2009.07.04: 233 years after the Revolution.....
2009.07.02: Beazer Homes makes a deal with feds after allegations of fraud
2009.07.02: Getting out of Dodge
2009.07.02: Not by a long shot
2009.07.02: Almost gone.......
2009.07.01: Obama casts wider net for refi plan, but still awfully small for CA
2009.07.01: Five Sac-area real estate agents make Top 100 list
2009.07.01: Will more state employee furloughs bring new defaults?
2009.07.01: The complicated world of crude oil
2009.07.01: Striking out
2009.06.30: Still in the slow lane
2009.06.29: Down to wire for California's new-home buyer tax credit
2009.06.29: Why the Obama plan to modify your mortgage is bogged down
2009.06.26: Good blog sites where borrowers share advice, stories?
2009.06.24: Coldwell Banker takes its real estate game to YouTube
2009.06.24: Brown to Pleasanton: build more houses or else
2009.06.24: Still too few loan modifications, says reinvestment coalition
2009.06.24: 800,000 jobs lost in California, 200,000 more yet to go
2009.06.23: Harvard: Housing's long row yet to hoe
2009.06.23: Can't sell the house to move to assisted living?
2009.06.23: Foreclosures: The poor pets getting left behind
2009.06.22: New home buyer tax credit will be gone soon
2009.06.22: Shouldn't home insurance be getting cheaper by now?
2009.06.22: May sales and prices in capital region by ZIP Code
2009.06.22: Senior Co-housing authority speaking next month in Sacramento
2009.06.22: "We're in a slow, but definite recovery mode"
2009.06.19: Lenders winning exemptions from new Calif. foreclosure law
2009.06.19: USA TODAY: Banks falling short on modification efforts
2009.06.18: Prices rise in Sacramento County and four others here, too
2009.06.18: Bay Area's May median price rises 12.3% from April
2009.06.17: Two sue KB Home-Countrywide, alleging artificial price inflation
2009.06.17: If priced to sell, homes are selling in 60 days
2009.06.17: Growing trouble with prime loans
2009.06.17: Where to get free help with your mortgage issues
2009.06.17: Median price rises in Southern Calif. - first time since July '07
2009.06.16: SAR: May median sales price jumps 7.7 percent from April
2009.06.16: Lights out in the move-up market
2009.06.16: We top the "troubled list" in a new book
2009.06.16: Record May for foreclosures, says ForeclosureRadar
2009.06.16: Two lenders get first exemptions from 90-day moratorium
2009.06.15: Today's start to California's 90-day foreclosure moratorium
2009.06.12: Bottoming out (or not)
2009.06.11: Sacramento's Township 9 is off and running
2009.06.11: Staggering
2009.06.10: Second thoughts about refinancing?
2009.06.10: Harsh April for Sacramento-area homebuilders
2009.06.10: When will the job market recover?
2009.06.10: Deeper in debt
2009.06.10: Rising mortgage rates are putting a new scare into market
2009.06.10: More confident, but willing to spend?
2009.06.10: Exports keep falling...
2009.06.09: Feng Shui at home: How to bring wealth into your life
2009.06.09: Gas prices: up, up and up
2009.06.09: 203 foreclosure filings every day the past year in capital area
2009.06.08: A bloated budget?
2009.06.05: Joel Singer's take on California's foreclosure crisis
2009.06.05: The good and the bad
2009.06.04: A little cold water
2009.06.03: It can always be worse
2009.06.03: Swimming in debt
2009.06.03: Rep. Matsui, too, trying to rein in foreclosure consultants
2009.06.02: Foreclosure consultants: post $100,000 bond or quit the biz
2009.06.02: Short sales: revisiting the phenomenon
2009.06.02: Renters can stay longer after the bank forecloses
2009.06.01: Computer chips and bankrupt automakers
2009.05.28: CalSTRS and proxy fights
2009.05.28: Finding a bottom?
2009.05.27: Pension funds and budget deficits
2009.05.22: Online help in the world of foreclosures
2009.05.22: A NY Times economics reporter encounters foreclosure
2009.05.22: The job numbers are out...
2009.05.21: Keeping track of unemployment
2009.05.21: Median sales prices finally stabilizing in capital region
2009.05.20: After a builder goes under
2009.05.20: Short sale heaven (or is it that other place?)
2009.05.20: Poizner: Be wary of the home warranty scams going around
2009.05.19: More and more affordable
2009.05.19: Just when you thought it was safe
2009.05.19: Everything you could possibly want to know about gambling
2009.05.19: Repos still driving existing home sales in Southern California
2009.05.18: Bankrupt
2009.05.15: Q1 2009: Sacramento's top homebuilders
2009.05.15: Placer County: fewer April sales than last year
2009.05.15: More and more empty storefronts
2009.05.15: Drilling down on Sacramento County foreclosures
2009.05.15: Buying cars in Smallville
2009.05.14: Pick your poison, government edition
2009.05.14: The Chrysler hit list
2009.05.13: SAR: April existing home sales about same as March
2009.05.13: Builders propose tripling $100 million state tax credit for buyers
2009.05.12: Blacks and Latinos take hardest fall in foreclosure crisis
2009.05.12: A better Department of Real Estate in California
2009.05.12: Still running on empty
2009.05.11: Thrifty now, but what about tomorrow?
2009.05.08: South light rail line extension makes it into federal budget
2009.05.08: Glimmers of hope? Not around here
2009.05.08: Ripped-off caller: tell the people about loan modification scams
2009.05.08: Unemployment: still bad (but getting a little better?)
2009.05.07: Former Elk Grove Realtor/loan broker indicted by U.S.
2009.05.07: Top 100 U.S. home builders in 2008 - Elliott Homes #92
2009.05.07: "Elaborate real estate scam" lands jail time for Nevada Co. man
2009.05.07: A new casino's so-so results
2009.05.06: No gains yet in capital-area home equity
2009.05.05: Judge halts foreclosures in South Carolina
2009.05.05: Davis ranks 19th on top 25 towns to live well
2009.05.05: The housing boom comes to this...
2009.05.04: New York Times on Sacramento: Is this what bottom looks like?
2009.05.04: Slot machines, income taxes and a stubborn recession
2009.05.04: Why these foreclosures keep coming
2009.05.04: Tower North
2009.05.01: Mortgage Rates 101
2009.05.01: Numbers, numbers, we have numbers
2009.05.01: One couple: same languishing industry
2009.05.01: Sacramento's St. Anton Partners: a top 10 U.S. developer
2009.05.01: Bankruptcy judges will not be rewriting any mortgages
2009.04.30: Before the fall
2009.04.30: Watch the tax dollars trickle in
2009.04.30: The Chrysler bankruptcy, and an old Sacramento story
2009.04.29: Builders honor Eskaton's national demo home in Roseville
2009.04.29: Big Chill thaws at CalHFA
2009.04.28: Really, really, really not so crazy
2009.04.28: Not so crazy after all
2009.04.27: Who's doing most of the mortgage lending in Sacramento?
2009.04.24: Should homebuilders be banned from using "in-house" lending?
2009.04.24: Over one-fifth of U.S. housing wealth has vanished
2009.04.24: Nevada City architect pens definitive guide to senior cohousing
2009.04.24: More on newspapers
2009.04.24: Calling all wonks
2009.04.22: Slamming the brakes at GM
2009.04.21: Silver Lining Dep't
2009.04.21: HGTV's "House Hunters" features Auburn couple on Friday
2009.04.21: So you want to build a warehouse?
2009.04.21: As the media world turns...
2009.04.20: Metrostudy's look at Q1 2009: still an excess of supply
2009.04.20: Auction giants clear out 190 more houses Sunday
2009.04.20: More on walking away or staying put - and paying
2009.04.17: Can San Diego lead us out of the housing quagmire?
2009.04.17: Unemployment: 11% and worse
2009.04.17: March sales and prices by ZIP Code
2009.04.17: Still spinning
2009.04.16: Sacramento Co. median price rises first time in a year
2009.04.16: General Growth in Chapter 11
2009.04.15: Tax Credits 101
2009.04.15: Banks step up the foreclosures
2009.04.15: Southern California March home sales 52% above last year
2009.04.14: Home sales slow at Lake Tahoe, but sales prices are up
2009.04.14: On to Nevada, where life is, uh, less than perfect
2009.04.14: Placer County reports spring uptick in home sales
2009.04.13: Should I rent or should I buy?
2009.04.13: Sacramento County median price makes another little jump
2009.04.13: Why are banks holding repos off the market?
2009.04.13: Congestion ahead
2009.04.10: For sale signs continue a long fall
2009.04.09: Free loan modification workshop in North Higlands
2009.04.09: Brush up on your Cal Neva history
2009.04.09: The good and the bad
2009.04.08: The biggest homebuilder deal ever
2009.04.08: The sad, unwanted Cal Neva casino
2009.04.08: Things could be worse (see Iceland)
2009.04.06: The early days of the recession
2009.04.03: Back to reality?
2009.04.03: Map 2.0
2009.04.02: We'll pay your mortgage for six months if you're laid off
2009.04.02: The forecast for Sacramento: 12.1%
2009.04.02: Is this for real?
2009.04.01: Worse and worse for capital-area homebuilders
2009.03.31: The next housing boom will be different
2009.03.31: Gottschalks: Going, going, gone
2009.03.30: Yuba County, epicenter of being under water
2009.03.30: If you're too big to fail you're too big to exist
2009.03.30: Driving less and less
2009.03.27: Loan industry analyst: Modifications are rising fast
2009.03.27: It's not just California
2009.03.27: A little more on Gottschalks
2009.03.27: Rep. Matsui's bid to steer unspent TARP to struggling borrowers
2009.03.26: 30-year mortgage rates average 4.85 percent this week
2009.03.26: Down to the wire
2009.03.24: 12 percent unemployment?
2009.03.23: State Senate takes up consumer foreclosure scams
2009.03.23: Down (and out) in the Valley
2009.03.23: Capital-area home prices down 25% from Jan. '08 to Jan '09
2009.03.20: Matsui: Give returned TARP funds to struggling borrowers
2009.03.20: Chase opens its Sacramento center for loan modifications
2009.03.20: Munich-based Focus Magazine looking for foreclosure interviews
2009.03.20: What's the fed's big moves this week mean to you?
2009.03.20: Update on CalPERS' land woes
2009.03.19: Nuggets, tidbits and quotes from the Calif. foreclosure crisis
2009.03.19: Brown nabs two more for alleged loan modification scam
2009.03.19: First look at February sales
2009.03.18: Why the markets melted
2009.03.18: JP Morgan Chase opens center for struggling borrowers Friday
2009.03.18: A media kingmaker retires
2009.03.17: Median sales price finally stabilizes in Southern California
2009.03.17: America's Top 10 Homebuilders
2009.03.17: That uptick in housing starts is not likely happening here
2009.03.16: Will it finally work this time?
2009.03.16: Save! No, don't save - spend instead! Or something.
2009.03.16: New effort to erase discriminatory old language in home deeds
2009.03.16: More thoughts on "walking away" from the house
2009.03.13: It's a jungle out there
2009.03.13: Exports crumble
2009.03.12: This was all predicted
2009.03.12: All the foreclosure news that fits
2009.03.12: Here come the numbers
2009.03.11: Feeling crummy?
2009.03.10: Gas prices steady
2009.03.10: Spring in the capital city's "Pocket"
2009.03.10: Pocket infill project prevails over long-time opponents
2009.03.10: More about newspapers
2009.03.10: Gov. Schwarzenegger's lenders do 136,785 loan mods in 2008
2009.03.10: Another store gone
2009.03.09: Jail time for loan modification scheme
2009.03.06: A ZIP Code look at who is "underwater" in Sacramento
2009.03.06: Good bye, Gottschalks?
2009.03.06: How to get started with the Obama housing rescue plan
2009.03.06: Green Expo returns for a second run on April 3
2009.03.05: Record unemployment?
2009.03.05: 37 percent of capital-area homes are "underwater"
2009.03.05: One-stop info for Obama's housing rescue plan
2009.03.05: Unemployment, Part 2
2009.03.03: Economist: Big sales year for Sacramento
2009.03.02: More and more vacancies
2009.03.02: Farewell to a Tower rival
2009.03.02: The continuing drama of Pacific Ethanol
2009.03.02: State's frozen bond funds make hash of housing projects
2009.03.02: One-stop source for $10,000 tax credit for new homes
2009.02.27: 10.1 percent
2009.02.27: Shout out for volunteers to help seniors with home loans
2009.02.27: Look out below
2009.02.26: Unemployment data, delayed (sort of)
2009.02.25: Will Obama's housing rescue stop the "walkaways?"
2009.02.24: Hand-holding for the well-to-do
2009.02.24: It's a hard rain....
2009.02.23: Beware the property tax assessment scam (again)
2009.02.23: Feds send $34.2 million to our foreclosed-wracked streets
2009.02.23: After the recession
2009.02.20: A closer look at those January sales numbers
2009.02.20: Feds, state announce charges in two mortgage fraud cases
2009.02.20: Save it or spend it?
2009.02.19: Will you miss your $10,000 new-home state tax credit?
2009.02.19: The new state budget: On the one hand...
2009.02.19: Home sales up; not drapes, blinds and furniture
2009.02.19: John Laing files for Chapter 11
2009.02.18: Strongest January in three years for capital-area home sales
2009.02.18: The Obama foreclosure plan
2009.02.18: Help for nine million homeowners
2009.02.17: The new $8,000 first-time buyer tax credit
2009.02.17: Perils of today's financial journalism
2009.02.17: Taking pity on Californians
2009.02.17: For sale: high school, $10.3 million
2009.02.16: Champion of Sacramento's old Victorians dies at 75
2009.02.16: Where's Home Depot?
2009.02.13: 4th Quarter Foreclosure activity falls - but it's temporary
2009.02.13: Sacramento County's January sales: highest in nine years
2009.02.13: "How banks are worsening the foreclosure crisis"
2009.02.13: Win some, lose some
2009.02.12: Trouble in the bird house
2009.02.11: The export slump
2009.02.10: Real estate-related scam #1,009
2009.02.10: Awhile longer for foreclosure relief
2009.02.10: Music to their ears?
2009.02.09: Making their move
2009.02.09: Whither bottom?
2009.02.09: Centex dominates sales second year in a row
2009.02.06: Cold Comfort Dep't.
2009.02.06: One bad January
2009.02.04: Home equity: Going, going, gone
2009.02.04: Big changes at CalPERS? Maybe not
2009.02.03: Down & out in Tahoe City...
2009.02.02: Why we write 'em
2009.02.02: Cutbacks at Macy's
2009.01.31: Mortgage brokers who ruled the roost getting pushed out
2009.01.30: Worse than 1993 and 1982 for California's housing starts
2009.01.30: Those bad GDP numbers
2009.01.29: A new twist on the Promenade
2009.01.29: The chips are down in Roseville
2009.01.28: Trying to make sense of it
2009.01.27: We're No. 10 (in store closings)
2009.01.26: Layoff Nation, continued
2009.01.23: A long slog to come
2009.01.23: Report: Most John Laing sales calls lead to answering service
2009.01.23: Apartment values/sales follow houses into the slow lane
2009.01.23: Ugly job numbers
2009.01.22: John Laing Homes is another capital builder in trouble
2009.01.22: Now it's Microsoft's turn
2009.01.21: CalPERS and other topics
2009.01.21: Capital's hotels see more decline than rest of Northern Calif.
2009.01.20: Capital-area home sales: 7,763 more in 2008 than previous year
2009.01.16: Three french hens, two turtle doves and $500 of gasoline
2009.01.16: Steinberg and Bass to Obama: let judges rewrite loans
2009.01.16: How the housing crash cut your library hours
2009.01.16: Take a breath
2009.01.15: More on loan modification "swindlers"
2009.01.14: The Gottschalks bankruptcy
2009.01.13: Canadian-backed Roseville venture resurrects R&B lots
2009.01.13: Writing off the Golden State: Version 9.0
2009.01.12: Economy 1, Fitness O
2009.01.12: The growing phenomenon of "walking away."
2009.01.12: State workers, the economy and you
2009.01.12: 2008: Sacramento sales up 81 percent, prices down 36 percent
2009.01.12: Did you pay someone to get a loan modification?
2009.01.09: Diablo Grande revisited
2009.01.09: Shutdown City
2009.01.09: Gottschalks, again
2009.01.09: Ethanol and gasoline
2009.01.07: 10 percent unemployment?
2009.01.06: Folsom house goes LEED Platinum - one of three in state
2009.01.06: Gottschalks' guardian angel?
2009.01.05: About that map...
2009.01.05: CalPERS and CalSTRS
2009.01.05: Steve Jobs' health
2009.01.02: Opportunity for Apple
2009.01.02: "You sit in the street and it feels like it should be snowing."
2009.01.02: To all those who got it wrong
2009.01.02: In the Valley
2009.01.01: Happy New Year!
2008.12.31: Channel 10: Natomas HOA boots renters from clubhouse
2008.12.31: Read 'em and weep: the top 10 real estate stories of '08
2008.12.31: It's over with a rally: a look back at the 2008 stock market
2008.12.30: 2008: Now that was a year for the books
2008.12.30: The building industry "buzzwords" of 2009
2008.12.30: The backstory on General Growth
2008.12.29: Calling all those considering a refinance....
2008.12.29: Sacramento: among worst U.S. real estate markets of 2009
2008.12.26: You know things are bad...
2008.12.26: Another Black Friday
2008.12.24: More on shopping
2008.12.23: This time of year there's no place like home...
2008.12.23: Bringing back old capital houses to their period charm
2008.12.23: The shopping news
2008.12.18: More about home sales
2008.12.18: Latest on home sales
2008.12.16: A new homebuilding venture takes root at McClellan Park
2008.12.16: The view from Stockton
2008.12.16: A bit more about McClatchy
2008.12.15: Holiday memories at Sacramento's #1 House
2008.12.15: A liberal plot?
2008.12.15: We bring you predictions for the new year
2008.12.15: For richer....and lately, poorer
2008.12.12: Short and sweet
2008.12.12: Region's November sales: start of winter slowdown
2008.12.12: Beware of modification firms seeking money up front
2008.12.10: Workers to blame? Not so fast
2008.12.09: Nothing funny about this forecast
2008.12.09: The new new crash
2008.12.08: Bubble trouble
2008.12.08: What would you ask them if you were us?
2008.12.05: Not since 1974....
2008.12.04: Black Friday, awful November
2008.12.04: Back to the fuel pump
2008.12.03: California's home building industry revs up for AB32 rules
2008.12.03: Let America's house prices fall
2008.12.03: Another area home builder is biting the dust
2008.12.03: More car dealerships folding?
2008.12.02: Fannie and Freddie's overseers tell how they'll help borrowers
2008.12.02: Still a recession - and will be for a while
2008.12.02: State employees steered toward Thursday Hope Now event
2008.12.02: Investors sue BofA, Countrywide for loan modification plan
2008.12.01: Florida halts foreclosures for 45 days
2008.12.01: It's now a recession
2008.12.01: Boos for column on October foreclosure slowdow
2008.11.28: Hope Now: big foreclosure prevention event Dec. 4
2008.11.28: Coffee cups and potato chips where shoppers congregated
2008.11.28: More from downtown
2008.11.28: Discounts and doldrums
2008.11.26: Foreclosure: still the most common outcome of loan workouts
2008.11.26: When Black Friday comes...
2008.11.25: Gee. No kidding...
2008.11.25: What's the fuss?
2008.11.24: Woof and whimper
2008.11.24: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac chief urges lenders to modify loans
2008.11.24: You can't move to assisted living if you can't sell your house
2008.11.24: U.S. Sales fall: Nehemiah cites lack of down payment assistance
2008.11.21: Smaller houses as builders compete with repos?
2008.11.21: October sales and prices by ZIP Code
2008.11.21: Unemployment shoots up
2008.11.20: Capital-area home sales hold strong through October
2008.11.20: About that mall in Elk Grove...
2008.11.20: The unemployment news
2008.11.19: Would you buy a house at auction? Have you?
2008.11.19: McClatchy's woes, cont'd
2008.11.19: More about cars
2008.11.18: The big bet starts Dec. 17
2008.11.18: In praise of trees
2008.11.18: Blame Detroit (sort of)
2008.11.18: LA buyers shake off gloomy financial news
2008.11.18: Seven big lenders plan Thursday meetings with area borrowers
2008.11.17: A moratorium mystery beneath the Capitol dome
2008.11.17: Party like it's 2004
2008.11.14: Capital region's repo sales blitz extends into October
2008.11.14: The Central (Foreclosure) Valley
2008.11.14: The meltdown of Sac County's lower-income neighborhoods
2008.11.14: The unthinkable now points to Century 21 and Coldwell Banker
2008.11.14: A red October
2008.11.13: The real estate creed: Always leave them smiling
2008.11.13: About those pension funds...
2008.11.13: Got to start somewhere
2008.11.07: Controversial Bickford Ranch falls into bankruptcy court
2008.11.06: Home builders are getting "green" religion
2008.11.05: Governor proposes some 90-day foreclosure timeouts
2008.11.05: Borrowers await their fate
2008.11.03: New hope for struggling local borrowers with WAMU loans
2008.11.03: Federal government dives deeper into mortgage workouts
2008.10.24: Friday's World Wide Web of housing
2008.10.23: California and Sacramento foreclosures: still going up
2008.10.22: Wall Street Journal looks at rising California sales
2008.10.20: First time ever: Protests greet Mortgage Bankers in S.F.
2008.10.20: New housing sector down 221,000 jobs since 2005
2008.10.20: September in Southern California: foreclosures half of all sales
2008.10.20: A silver lining to the housing, economic downturn
2008.10.17: Have you checked Zillow lately?
2008.10.16: The sound of no foreclosures whatsoever
2008.10.16: California Association of Realtors: a turnaround later next year
2008.10.16: September sales strong in Sacramento and Placer counties
2008.10.15: Builder Christo Bardis files for personal BK protection
2008.10.14: Huge drop in mortgage defaults, but don't break out party hats
2008.10.13: Lucky Citrus Heights woman wins a free new home
2008.10.13: September sales steady in Sacramento; prices still falling
2008.10.13: Video postscript to Sunday's story on Diablo Grande
2008.10.10: LIBOR rates next worry for Sacramento ARMs
2008.10.09: An earful about the Bank of America/Countrywide settlement
2008.10.09: Chicago's Cook Co. Sheriff says no to foreclosure evictions
2008.10.08: CBIA Chairman Ray Becker dies at 59
2008.10.08: John McCain's plan to buy and renegotiate mortgages
2008.10.05: About "100" calls to lender, but headed toward the brink
2008.10.03: One for the weekend: Here's to low home prices.....
2008.10.02: Southern California's Pardee Homes surrenders in Natomas
2008.09.29: The California foreclosure crisis: what now?
2008.09.29: Thoughts and interviews on an historic day in world finance
2008.09.29: Am I too quick to predict more loan modifications from bill?
2008.09.28: The federal rescue plan offers a hand to struggling borrowers
2008.09.27: Foreclosed? Don't forget to re-register to vote
2008.09.26: Housing bill money arrives, sparks complaints in Calif.
2008.09.26: What might happen in our country
2008.09.26: A real estate casualty? Call or write us
2008.09.25: Governor signs mortgage bills, but vetoes a big one
2008.09.25: "Disaster" in Bush-Congress meeting on financial bailout bill
2008.09.24: Who's leading the region's home building race?
2008.09.23: Jobs, training expo for laid-off real estate workers
2008.09.23: How language shapes the bailout debate
2008.09.22: Bailout plan will help struggling homeowners avert foreclosure?
2008.09.18: Bay Area home sales drift back lower in August
2008.09.18: CBS News: Obama and McCain on the mortgage mess
2008.09.18: Region's sales dip from July, but still at two-year high
2008.09.17: Southern California median sales price slips to Nov. 2003 levels
2008.09.16: Nice view.....
2008.09.16: Down payment assistance clears key U.S. House hurdle
2008.09.16: Placer County: 2008 home sales up 13.7 percent over 2007
2008.09.16: August: 42.4 percent of Sacramento Co. sales below $200k
2008.09.16: Good Luck to these guys....
2008.09.16: Mortgage rates down, credit tightens: What's it all mean?
2008.09.15: The first of many analyses on Wall Street and housing market
2008.09.15: Are you moving around your investments today?
2008.09.15: Broker says Wall Street crisis pushes down mortgage rates
2008.09.14: Lehman's ship, floated on risky mortgages, is going down
2008.09.12: Pressure mounts for foreclosure halt on Fannie-Freddie loans
2008.09.12: House hunting: how he made his wife cry
2008.09.11: Capital region's huge 2007 drop in subprime loans
2008.09.11: August existing home sales fall from July: TrendGraphix
2008.09.11: Home builders: Retrofit existing homes for global warming goals
2008.09.11: Syphax rallies supporters for congressional DPA showdown
2008.09.11: Tim Lewis Communities wins Powers honors for second year
2008.09.11: Countrywide's big security breach
2008.09.10: Rise of a "Painted Lady" in Midtown
2008.09.09: State says loan modifications rise sharply in July
2008.09.09: Congress now eyes a reprieve for down payment assistance
2008.09.09: Smaller banks take big losses with Fannie/Freddie move
2008.09.09: $3,995 to help you persuade your bank to do a loan modification
2008.09.09: Debt collectors rough up the innocent
2008.09.08: ABC News: Buy a new house, give the other back to the bank
2008.09.08: And suddenly...Wall Street embraces the housing world
2008.09.06: Fannie-Freddie takeover expected Sunday
2008.09.06: Morning in the suburbs, before the heat arrives
2008.09.05: Government to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
2008.09.05: Homes of the (political) stars
2008.09.05: Should he buy or should he wait?
2008.09.04: How my builder file explains the last 30 months in Sacramento
2008.09.04: Sacramento-area builders idle 3,500 finished lots
2008.09.04: The Realtor View: Why Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae matter
2008.09.03: Yes, the GMAC layoffs ARE happening here
2008.09.03: More mortgage industry layoffs...are they happening here?
2008.09.02: Fitch Ratings sees coming trouble with Option ARMS
2008.09.01: A 2009 start for Sacramento's downtown Railyards
2008.08.29: "Oh Lord, stuck at Lake Tahoe again."
2008.08.29: The Dutch swoop in to buy foreclosed homes in Florida
2008.08.29: What would you grab at home if a hurricane was coming?
2008.08.28: It had to come sooner or later: Home Builder Implode-O-Meter
2008.08.28: Another capital-area builder headed toward bankruptcy
2008.08.28: "Beginning of the end of the Sacramento housing crash"
2008.08.26: Group seeks housing votes for homeless military veterans
2008.08.26: Central Valley markets still among worst for price declines
2008.08.26: SMUD's House of the Future goes online
2008.08.25: Beazer moves to smaller digs, KB slims down
2008.08.25: Repos drive California's July home sales 40 percent above 2007
2008.08.23: Merced: A view from the "ruins of the housing bust"
2008.08.22: NY real estate magazine runs profile of Sacramento market
2008.08.21: Calendar: Aug. 27 workshop for struggling mortgage holders
2008.08.21: State will help Sacramentans, too, buy foreclosures
2008.08.21: First-time buyers: many have eyes bigger than their wallets
2008.08.20: Tax relief in short sales, mortgage writedowns clears Legislature
2008.08.20: Questions and anwers: the new $7,500 home buyer tax credit
2008.08.19: New better-detailed Sacramento County foreclosure info
2008.08.19: It's still a rally: today's story on July homes in Sacramento
2008.08.19: State continues loan probe in Nevada County
2008.08.18: First draft: the homes sales rally continues
2008.08.18: A first look: DataQuick's July sales and price numbers
2008.08.18: News alert: DataQuick's July sales numbers arrive this morning
2008.08.18: Bee editorial page: lawmakers need to act on mortgage mess
2008.08.18: The housing boom's breakdown in appraiser ethics
2008.08.15: Trendgraphix: "The action is below $200,000"
2008.08.15: A surprising art find inside a Sacramento home for sale
2008.08.14: Speed of home price declines begins to taper off a bit
2008.08.14: The rap on Zillow
2008.08.13: 70 percent of July sales in Sacramento County are foreclosures
2008.08.13: As housing slumps, store vacancy rates continue to rise
2008.08.13: Banks sag under the weight of mortgages gone bad
2008.08.13: Sales bounce back in Sacramento's twin: Riverside County
2008.08.12: Sac's Nehemiah Corp. rallies Web for down payment assistance
2008.08.12: 40 % of capital region's post-2003 buyers are "underwater"
2008.08.11: Sliding toward the cliff, anxiously
2008.08.08: Comment of the day: Should I stay or should I go?
2008.08.08: Are banks becoming more open to short sales?
2008.08.08: Financial Title's demise: a view from the street
2008.08.08: The 400,000-home rescue plan: here's details for getting help
2008.08.07: Sacramento County sets up a foreclosure task force
2008.08.07: Liking the look of downtown Sacramento's SoCap Lofts
2008.08.07: Option ARMs: Sacramento has a lot of these
2008.08.07: What the housing crisis hath wrought
2008.08.06: Down payment assistance: real estate faithful try to revive it
2008.08.06: Can the housing bill save you from foreclosure? Part II
2008.08.06: Groups push Attorney General Brown for foreclosure moratorium
2008.08.06: Business Week ranks Elk Grove foreclosure attorney tops in CA
2008.08.06: Multiple-offer blues
2008.08.06: The new housing bill: can it save you from foreclosure?
2008.08.05: Financial Title employees: out two weeks pay, too?
2008.08.05: The first big book about how we got into this mess
2008.08.05: Are these loans the next wave of foreclosures?
2008.08.05: Another Financial Title horror story
2008.08.05: The human fallout of Financial Title's collapse
2008.08.05: State claims growing success with getting loan modifications
2008.08.04: Seeking some regional details on collapse of Financial Title
2008.08.04: A CNBC Real estate roundtable: too early to call bottom
2008.08.03: Where will all the new Sacramento-area residents live?
2008.07.26: Congress finally acts in big way on the housing crisis
2008.07.25: A street or cul de sac already in recovery from foreclosures
2008.07.24: A video viewpoint on California's mortgage-foreclosure crisis
2008.07.24: Capital's housing woes rattle commercial real estate
2008.07.24: San Diego bids to become a "foreclosure sanctuary"
2008.07.24: Legal troubles for Roseville's Paramount Equity Mortgage
2008.07.22: Foreclosures: still rising in Sacramento and California
2008.07.22: Nehemiah expects ban on program, will focus on development
2008.07.21: Is this the end of down payment assistance?
2008.07.21: $200 million to help people buy foreclosed homes
2008.07.21: Behind the story of Pautsch's departure from Centex
2008.07.18: How real estate agents can ease their pain at the pump
2008.07.17: A closer look at Sacramento-area sales (by ZIP Code)
2008.07.17: A final thought on the extreme depreciation in sales prices
2008.07.17: A few more June stats from DataQuick
2008.07.17: Capital-area home sales reach near two-year high in June
2008.07.16: Bank of America aims for builder John Reynen's home
2008.07.16: '90s flashback: Builders - again - will extend subdvision maps
2008.07.16: A novel idea for housing displaced Marshall Hotel residents
2008.07.15: California's homebuilders still getting hammered on sales
2008.07.15: Sacramento County: 42 percent of June sales below $200K
2008.07.14: Washington Mutual: lots of loans in troubled Sacramento
2008.07.14: Rocklin labeled Top 10 U.S. town to raise a family
2008.07.14: The "core problem" of the housing market
2008.07.14: Placer County: June closings up 15 percent over June 2007
2008.07.14: Got home loan trouble? Here's a another free workshop
2008.07.14: There is opportunity when banks have troubles
2008.07.14: The June sales numbers start rolling in
2008.07.13: Sunday suspense and new criticism of Fannie/Freddie
2008.07.10: Don't count on that house paying for your retirement needs
2008.07.10: Everything you ever wanted to know about hotel rates
2008.07.09: Don't count out the suburbs just yet
2008.07.08: Pautsch is out, Wyatt is in at Centex Sacramento
2008.07.08: Sometimes, buying a house is a long, long story
2008.07.08: Governor signs foreclosure bill this morning
2008.07.08: San Francisco Fed's Yellen: This may be a long haul
2008.07.07: The Rancho Cordova origins of IndyMac's Michael Perry
2008.07.07: The tradeoff: skyrocketing sales vs. a region awash in rentals
2008.07.07: Here goes another one: IndyMac in a tailspin
2008.07.07: Wall Street Journal: Sacramento's "Blueprint" a national model
2008.07.06: The Zero emissions house: Japan shows one to the world
2008.07.05: "This is unchartered territory"
2008.07.04: Happy 4th on your home front
2008.07.02: Reinvestment coalition: lenders still not helping borrowers
2008.07.02: Schwarzenegger's 90 Days of Hope campaign
2008.07.01: State says number of loan modifications rise in April, May
2008.07.01: Ouch! We're still number 10 for risk of declining prices
2008.07.01: All foreclosures, all the time
2008.06.30: Break out the party hats: 2008's first half is history
2008.06.29: What is with those Realtors' gold jackets?
2008.06.26: Late Chronicle columnist's childhood home foreclosed
2008.06.26: BofA to cut 7,500 jobs after Countrywide deal
2008.06.25: Uh-oh: California sues Countrywide over loan practices
2008.06.23: You voted for a housing bond - here comes your money
2008.06.23: Harvard: Housing downturn shaping up as worst in a generation
2008.06.23: Yuba-Sutter counties: state's biggest decline in housing starts
2008.06.23: Foreclosure patrol: A deputy's new duties
2008.06.20: The hits keep on coming
2008.06.20: Justice Department launches Operation Malicious Mortage
2008.06.18: Metropolitan Sacramento's May home sales: by ZIP Code
2008.06.18: May sales: Can buyers refloat this ship?
2008.06.18: Second straight month of year-over-year home sales gains!
2008.06.17: Repo contracting: A before and after look
2008.06.16: New May sales reports: Sacramento and Los Angeles
2008.06.16: What you see when a city cares about its neighborhoods
2008.06.16: The new boom in repo contracting
2008.06.15: The 2008 Housing Election: the candidates and foreclosures
2008.06.13: Big developer banks on another boom in Lincoln
2008.06.12: The Endless War over Down Payment Assistance
2008.06.12: Is Hope Now making a difference?
2008.06.12: Mortgage rates jump to highest level in eight months
2008.06.12: 9.5 percent of Placer County's May sales below $250,000
2008.06.11: Eyes of nation on Sacramento's repo-mania
2008.06.11: The world works in mysterious ways
2008.06.10: Downgrades for big Sacramento home builders
2008.06.09: "End game of the housing bust is near"
2008.06.09: Time Magazine's postcard from Elk Grove
2008.06.06: A home builder and SMUD shoot for LEED Platinum in Folsom
2008.06.06: A sheriff who draws the line at foreclosure auctions
2008.06.05: Judge nixes insurer's TRO against Sidney B. Dunmore
2008.06.05: California, Florida driving nation's record-setting foreclosures
2008.06.04: One of nation's most energy efficient homes rising in Folsom
2008.06.04: Home owner associations feeling pinch of uncollected dues
2008.06.04: Et tu, Ed McMahon?
2008.06.02: Plumas Lake residents share thoughts on Sunday story
2008.06.02: Sacramento contributes to bank woes weighing down market
2008.05.30: Homebuilder John Reynen owes banks $972,509,864.00
2008.05.30: Where Ronald Reagan lived when he was governor of California
2008.05.30: Sacramento: Ranked a Top 10 Best U.S. City
2008.05.29: Riskier and riskier in California
2008.05.28: So you might buy a bank repo
2008.05.28: Kunstler: Suburbs, production builders aren't coming back
2008.05.27: Worst year in making for California builders since 1954
2008.05.24: Crash on the northern frontier
2008.05.22: New arrests for alleged foreclosure rescue scams
2008.05.21: Nevada City architects take national honors for Boulder project
2008.05.20: Pot house chic in suburban Sacramento
2008.05.20: Whatever happened to the governor's subprime agreement?
2008.05.20: How it looks in LA and the Bay Area
2008.05.20: The details behind April's sales bounce
2008.05.19: How April's sales look in the neighborhoods
2008.05.19: Region's home sales reach highest mark since June 2007
2008.05.16: Here's list of 85,000 Sac County homeowners getting a tax cut
2008.05.16: Here come the property tax breaks
2008.05.15: Congresswoman Matsui introduces "time-out" foreclosure bill
2008.05.15: California home builders predict fewest sales in half century
2008.05.14: 55.8 percent of Sac County home sales below $250,000
2008.05.14: Elk Grove: homes losing $160 a day
2008.05.14: Trees bring national recognition to Folsom's "Parkway"
2008.05.14: Greenspan calls early 2009 bottom
2008.05.14: Sales so far absorbing 15,000 bank repos expected in 2008
2008.05.13: D.R. Horton shifts some Sacramento functions to Bay Area
2008.05.13: Move along, the landlord is losing the house
2008.05.12: Daydreaming along Highway 99
2008.05.11: Will work for house payments
2008.05.09: Who needs real estate agents when we have laptops?
2008.05.09: We win
2008.05.09: Seeing the future of downtown Sacramento's Railyards
2008.05.09: Friday whirlwind
2008.05.08: Fort Worth or Sacramento: Will the real cowtown please rise
2008.05.08: Mortgage industry quote of the day
2008.05.08: What if Congress had reformed FHA two years ago?
2008.05.08: Cities where prices are rising
2008.05.07: Texas is big and brash
2008.05.06: Throwing around the S word (Stabilizing)
2008.05.05: Tourist in your own town
2008.05.05: Four-year supply of home lots at this construction pace
2008.05.05: Another look at big April sales
2008.05.05: They finally sold that church on Freeport Boulevard
2008.05.05: What comes after subprime
2008.05.05: It's a jungle out there
2008.05.03: Things like to grow here
2008.04.27: House Calls
2008.04.25: LA's Channel 7 probes for bottom in Orange County
2008.04.24: Neighbors down $7.4 billion from Sacramento County foreclosures
2008.04.24: The Bankrupt Builder Blog
2008.04.23: Home builder John Reyen files for personal bankruptcy protection
2008.04.23: Foreclosure workshop tonight
2008.04.22: California sets foreclosure record in first quarter
2008.04.21: Lyon: Banks want these houses off their books
2008.04.21: March Home sales by ZIP Codes
2008.04.21: Foreclosed pets seeking a home
2008.04.20: Sid Dunmore: A Life after Dunmore Homes
2008.04.18: Sacramento: a better place to rent
2008.04.18: Building Brownstones in Midtown
2008.04.18: Friday catch-up
2008.04.17: DataQuick issues March sales numbers
2008.04.16: Consumer attitudes toward solar-powered houses
2008.04.15: Everything you wanted to know about a green home
2008.04.15: Sacramento remodelers making a mark nationally
2008.04.14: Risky markets
2008.04.14: They built their own houses
2008.04.14: First Quarter: Top 10 Sacramento-area homebuilders
2008.04.14: Have camera, Will travel
2008.04.14: Transferred executive wants to buy my house
2008.04.11: The price of walking away from your house
2008.04.10: Leaving expensive California for a $114,000 house in Midwest
2008.04.08: The high-stakes politics of mortgage banking
2008.04.07: Strippers: the Sacramento version
2008.04.06: Signs of spring in the City of Trees
2008.04.04: SMUD solar deal with Woodside Homes
2008.04.04: Another opinion on buying now
2008.04.04: Majority finally believes it: Now or soon is a good time to buy
2008.04.04: The biggest solar-home agreement yet in U.S. is in Rancho Cordova
2008.04.03: Centex dominating during slow home building start for 2008
2008.04.03: PPIC explains it all
2008.04.03: Party Shacks
2008.04.02: A history of how we got into this mess - and will get back out
2008.04.02: The Geography of Subprime
2008.04.01: No solution in sight for foreclosures
2008.04.01: Sacramento-area renters: feeling a supply squeeze?
2008.03.31: The Home Equity Theft Reporter Blog
2008.03.31: Nehemiah Corp. waves goodbye to Alphonso Jackson
2008.03.29: A rescue plan gains steam
2008.03.29: Like a tourist looking at houses
2008.03.28: The poetic swimming pools of Sacramento County
2008.03.28: A mild proposal to jump start construction, banking and housing
2008.03.27: 2008: The housing election
2008.03.27: Obsessed with interest rates
2008.03.26: FHA: It's going to bail us out
2008.03.26: Sacramento builders pulling way back
2008.03.25: More real estate scams
2008.03.25: State Senate foreclosure bill on the move
2008.03.24: Seriously: How to move your valuable art
2008.03.24: The newest Sacramento real estate scam
2008.03.23: The sunny side of Repomania
2008.03.22: The Deepening Malaise
2008.03.21: The House of Caen
2008.03.21: Former subprime lender getting his 15 minutes of fame
2008.03.21: Pushing the rock back up the mountain
2008.03.21: Lyon Real Estate: we are nearing bottom at the low end of market
2008.03.21: Prices are falling - bring on the moving vans
2008.03.20: 3,500 sales of bank-owned homes in four months
2008.03.19: A second chance for foreclosure refugees
2008.03.19: In praise of paint
2008.03.18: After the real estate boom comes the prosecutions
2008.03.18: Bernanke makes his move
2008.03.18: Big Fed cut on deck
2008.03.17: Filling the streets with foreclosure bus tours
2008.03.17: A winner at CalHFA
2008.03.16: Rough Seas
2008.03.16: Where going to work means never having to buy gasoline
2008.03.16: Government handout coming your way
2008.03.15: Solar Saturday
2008.03.14: At OSH
2008.03.14: A few words about short sales
2008.03.14: Return of the $200,000 house
2008.03.14: Is that light at the end of the tunnel?
2008.03.13: No more unpaid contractors suing home buyers
2008.03.13: How banks now rule in many real estate markets
2008.03.13: Investors are back in the game
2008.03.13: A Sacramento County sales surprise
2008.03.12: When worried homeowners gather for help
2008.03.12: February home sales statistics
2008.03.12: A new housing blog

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