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		<title>It&#8217;s a New Year&#8230;But Is It a New Housing Market? &#8211; Coldwell Banker Local President Rick Turley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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We’ve all been reading the conflicting headlines.  Some say 2010 will have its challenges.  Others say 2010 will be the start of good things to come.  But what’s the truth?  How can we read through the pessimism and for that matter, the rose colored glasses, to determine where we are likely headed?
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		<title>The Peninsula&#8217;s Biggest Winners &amp; Biggest Losers: What Peninsula Cities Performed the Best in Real Estate the Past Decade &#8211; 1999-2009?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2009 is history and the deflation of the real estate bubble is now far enough behind us that we can begin to get a little perspective.  With the closing of the books on the 2009 real estate year we can now see which cities performed the best in several categories. 
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		<title>Ringing in the New Year with Broad National Real Estate Market Improvements</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We really need to wait a bit for data to be available to assess real estate marke t recovery in 2009.  I plan to post results for local markets later in January and national data will take longer.  But in the meantime, the New York Times has published an excellent interactive site that allows a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midpenre.com&blog=1428585&post=674&subd=jdiltz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coldwell Banker President Rick Turley&#8217;s Market Watch</title>
		<link>http://midpenre.com/2009/10/06/coldwell-banker-president-rick-turleys-market-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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S&#38;P Reports On The State of the Housing Market

One of the founders of what has really become one of our industry&#8217;s (and the media&#8217;s) most published reports &#160;for real estate statistics and forecasts, S&#38;P Case Shiller, recently participated in a Q&#38;A about the state of the US housing market.&#160; Robert Shiller, a Yale University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midpenre.com&blog=1428585&post=662&subd=jdiltz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The patient is out of intensive care, but still has a very long road ahead to a clean bill of health.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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Those were the words last week from Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Michael Williams.  The CEO went on to say, “Anyone looking objectively at the economy and the housing market sees hope.”
The U.S. housing market still has a long road ahead but we are making some definite moves towards a housing recovery.  So what’s the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midpenre.com&blog=1428585&post=660&subd=jdiltz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Yes, the housing market has rarely looked better.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://midpenre.com/2009/09/13/yes-the-housing-market-has-rarely-looked-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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“Yes, the housing market has rarely looked better.”
That was the headline in a September 2 Wall Street Journal article.  Click here to access it:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204047504574386802310702622.html.  This was a really interesting piece which looked at numbers from Standard &#38; Poor’s and NAR.  Following is an excerpt from the article:
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		<title>Good News On Wall Street Doesn&#8217;t (Necessarily) Mean Higher Housing Prices on Main Street</title>
		<link>http://midpenre.com/2009/08/23/good-news-on-wall-street-doesnt-necessarily-mean-higher-housing-prices-on-main-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting chat with one of our Agents recently.  She mentioned that many of our sellers in the upper-tier price point are seeing the current strength of the Dow as a sign that their home will probably fetch more in the early part of next year.  Academically speaking, there is a belief that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midpenre.com&blog=1428585&post=650&subd=jdiltz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Buy a Foreclosure on the Courthouse Steps</title>
		<link>http://midpenre.com/2009/08/14/how-to-buy-a-foreclosure-on-the-courthouse-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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Many people have asked (especially students from my Stanford Continuing Studies class), how to take advantage of great deals by buying properties that are being foreclosed upon by banks.  These brief notes are meant to provide some guidance for those hearty enough to brave the perils of such an adventure.  Check out the picture below [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midpenre.com&blog=1428585&post=645&subd=jdiltz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Added Best National and Regional Housing Price Index</title>
		<link>http://midpenre.com/2009/08/12/just-added-best-national-and-regional-housing-price-index/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just added the Case-Shiller (S&#38;P) Housing Price Index to my list of Great Web Sites (on the right hand side of the blog&#8230;check it out).  This index measures prices of same home sales in 20 different U.S. market centers (e.g., SF includes San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin Counties in addition to San [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midpenre.com&blog=1428585&post=639&subd=jdiltz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coldwell Banker President&#8217;s Report: One Good Week of News Leads to Another</title>
		<link>http://midpenre.com/2009/08/08/coldwell-banker-presidents-report-one-good-week-of-news-leads-to-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Diltz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we had great housing news with the announcement that May home prices posted their first monthly increase since the summer of 2006 (based on the Standard &#38; Poor’s/Case-Schiller 20-city index). 
 
We also learned that sales of newly built and existing homes rose in June for the third consecutive month.  New home construction, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=midpenre.com&blog=1428585&post=642&subd=jdiltz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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