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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Where do we go from here?
From CNBC: Real Estate Recovery a Tale of Good, Bad and Ugly In Miami, condominiums are hot again. In Phoenix, builders are opening new communities. In New Jersey, buyers are finding it takes about three years to foreclose on a … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate
43 Comments
Poor not welcome in Short Hills
Came across this opinion/letter to the editor piece this morning in the Daily Record. Not sure whether to cheer or be appalled, but I’m leaning towards the latter, mostly due to the fact that the writer lives in Short Hills, … Continue reading
Posted in New Jersey Real Estate, Unrest
139 Comments
Jamie says all clear on the housing front
From CNBC: Improving Housing Market Driving Economy: Jamie Dimon The U.S. housing market is very close to a bottom and there are already signs its improvement is giving a boost to the overall economy, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, Humor
116 Comments
Turning the corner or hanging off the edge?
From the Record: Area’s home prices drop 2.9% in January Despite signs of an economic recovery, home prices nationally and in the New York metropolitan area, including North Jersey, continued to slide in January, the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate
164 Comments
Otteau: “We are at a turning point in the housing market and the economy”
From the Record: N.J. housing market recovering, appraiser says New Jersey’s housing market is recovering, and this spring’s home-selling season will be the liveliest in four years, appraiser Jeffrey Otteau said Monday. “We are at a turning point in the … Continue reading
Appeal 2012!
From the Record: North Jersey homeowners seek lower tax assessments (Hat tip Gary) Watching their property taxes rise as the value of their 82-year-old house dropped, Nora and Pat Sfarra of Teaneck decided to appeal their tax assessment last year. … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, New Jersey Real Estate, Politics, Property Taxes
82 Comments
The New (Jersey) Suburbia?
From the NY Times: High Marks for Transit Hubs WANT to know which New Jersey train stations have the most plentiful supply of parking spaces relative to town population? There’s a list for that. Or what about stations in the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, New Development, New Jersey Real Estate
36 Comments
Good start for employment in 2012, but quite a distance to go
From the Star Ledger: New Jersey job figures show slow but steady growth, economists say During the first two months of 2012 alone, New Jersey created more than half the number of jobs it did during all of last year, … Continue reading
“Housing bottoming is going to surprise a lot of people”
From the WSJ: Housing Shows Signs of Life The U.S. housing market, a notable soft spot in the nation’s weak economy for the past four years, is becoming less of a drag on the recovery. Real-estate markets are showing signs … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate
193 Comments
High expectations for February used house sales
From Bloomberg: Previously Owned U.S. Home Sales Probably Climbed Sales of previously owned U.S. homes probably rose in February to an almost two-year high, adding to signs of stabilization in the real-estate market, economists said before a report today. Purchases … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate
129 Comments
Signs of recovery? Or just a shift due to the weather?
From CNBC: Did Warm Winter Steal Spring Housing? As if we really needed a reminder that today’s housing market is still very fragile, the first installment in a slew of housing data to be released this week came in below … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate
302 Comments
Fast tracking abandoned homes
From the Star Ledger: Housing, banking advocates hail measure to speed foreclosures of abandoned homes A piece of state legislation that looks to turn foreclosed homes into affordable housing also contains a little-noted provision that banking and housing experts say … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreclosures, Housing Recovery, Politics
156 Comments
Tough Decisions
From the APP: Some NJ homeowners left under water as market prices fall Cynthia Spratt, a single mother of two, recently considered putting her Toms River home on the market and moving inland so that she could avoid the expense … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble
14 Comments
Been a while since the last … Weekend Open Discussion
This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading
Posted in General
134 Comments
Re/Max: Spring looking good (but can we believe them?)
From Re/Max (Cheerleader warning, this is from a press release): Home Prices Start to Rise, Sales Trend Higher: Housing Recovery Underway For the first time in 18 months, home prices in February rose higher. With a median price of $171,881, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, National Real Estate
132 Comments