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Is This Helping?
Just thinking out loud... A recent survey conducted at Zillow has provided some eye-popping insights into the consumer’s mortgage brain trust. In short, they are wildly un-slash-mis-informed about...
View ArticleHow To Chagrin A News Reporter 101
I love Martin Andelman. I read his column Mandelman Matters periodically – not religiously, because his posts can be long. But they are so tempting – he’s a skilled wordsmith. Biggest Consumer Advocate...
View ArticleHow To Build Green – Inspiring Approach and Solutions
If you’re interested in the Green Movement, a hot topic in and around Bay Area real estate circles, I think you’ll find this video (~6 minutes) fascinating. I really like the economic approach behind...
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How Often Do Mortgage Rates Change? July 2011 Update
How often do mortgage rates change these days? About every 3.1 hours. I’ll admit, July seemed to be a lot more volatile than a review of the tape is indicating. Perhaps that’s because most of the...
View ArticleHere’s A New Idea – Grow Your Home (Filed Under: Ideas That Make The National...
Just think – you could have your very own “Meat House” (yeah, just what it sounds like) complete with sphincter doors and windows. In the latest installment of our Friday ‘Creative Real Estate‘ series,...
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Happy Birthday, Mortgage Meltdown!
note to RSS and email readers: please forgive a prior send of this well before it’s final completion/edit… It’s rather amazing what is going on in the markets four years after the events that catalyzed...
View ArticleCreative Real Estate: Building Homes From Reclaimed Stuff
Dan Phillips has the distinction of being one of my heroes. I base it solely on this video – it’s all I know of him. But this video demonstrates such amazingly creative and interesting approaches to...
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“Half-There” Earth Home Featured In WSJ Luxury Real Estate
I’ve been to East Hampton, NY, and it’s quite a different world from here in the Bay Area, but this property struck me as something you’d be more likely to find here in the Bay Area than on the east...
View ArticleDomestic Transformer – The Most Incredibly Flexible Living Space Ever?
This has to be the most incredible example of efficient use of living space of all time. I lived on the outskirts of San Francisco’s Chinatown for about 6 years, and I did pick up an appreciation for...
View ArticleLego-Style Apartment Gives Domestic Transformer A Run For Its Money
If you saw last week’s installment of the Creative Real Estate series, I have little doubt you were short of amazed. The owner, who was an architect in Hong Kong, had devised a 24 room configuration...
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