It’s the poster child for the entire housing bubble. There’ll be some other spectacular blowups, but this will be at the top of the pecking order. – Daniel Alpert, Managing Partner, Westwood Capital The fact that they have given the…
5014 homes and condos traded hands in the 9 county Bay Area in September. That’s down 40% from last September and the weakest September on record in DataQuick’s database, which goes back to 1988. Interestingly, prices seem to be holding…
The Sacramento Bee reported this morning that local homebuilder, Dunmore Homes, which has sold almost 2000 homes locally since 2001 and has been in business since 1954 has been sold. This after The Sacramento Business Journal reported on Friday (subscription…
Realty Income (O) is a $50 billion Net Lease REIT that pays a monthly dividend of 26.8 cents which works out to an annual yield of ~5.60%. They call themselves The Monthly Dividend Company since most companies pay dividends quarterly….
The Wall Street Journal today published an editorial, “The House the Fed Built” (subscription required), echoing the interpretation of recent Fed history I posted a couple weeks ago: This is the housing market the Federal Reserve built. That is to say,…
Daily life in these developments seems a bit post-cataclysmic. Children play on elaborate but empty playgrounds. They walk their dogs past rows of shiny houses that have never been lived in. Voices echo up and down the block. Unfinished houses…
