Hits: 28You have arrived at the newly refreshed blog hosted by Alan Ball (and WordPress) and available to you online anytime. Your writer has attached the current monthly spreadsheet known as Absorption Rate (click on the link to the right) and over the next few
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September 2010
Hits: 9Come one, come all…to the biggest sale ever under the big tent – this month only!!! Bring your photo ID and your checkbook
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Hits: 15It has come to this: time again to roll out the message that the excess inventory of Santa Fe residential real estate
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Hits: 15We have to come to grips with the current state of affairs, making allowances for the pent up demand for new product and our hungry sellers. You keep hearing that we are at historical lows for
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Hits: 10First of all, please stop reading the papers or listening to the economic experts. Take 2 of these and you’ll feel better in the morning.
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Hits: 10Are you ready for some good news? Of course you are. We all are. While we wait, I want to pass along a quote, forwarded by a favorite local,
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Hits: 11Finally a bit of good news to report; March 2010 monthly sales figures are above February 2010 and also above March 2009. That only happened in 4 out of 12 months last year and
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Hits: 13If you are reading this, then you probably pay attention to the news. In real estate, all the talk is of the thousands of homes going into default and how many homes are “underwater”. Interest rates are
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Hits: 15How can a guy get a break? Why is everything so difficult and so uncertain? Picture yourself a home seller of a property you purchased in April 2006 for $450,000. Say you borrowed 80% of that price on an adjustable rate mortgage figuring you would stay
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Hits: 8This is getting interesting. Are you reading the same articles I am reading? Some say we are through the worst of it, predicting a slow but steady recovery, an improving outlook with newly created jobs, and a steady growing real estate market. Others think a double-dip recession is almost
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