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| A Few Thoughts
on Sovereign Debt (June 6,
2010) |
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Letter to a Friend Buying on the Cape:
Don't! (November 21,
2009) |
| A
Slow-Motion Train Wreck: The Debt Crisis and Real Estate
(December 11, 2008) |
| A
Realtor's View from Hubbert's Peak: The End of Cheap Oil and Cheap Money
(June 5, 2006) |
| War
and Property Inflation (April 7, 2005) |
| Why Home Prices
Are Going through the Roof: A Brief Guide to the "New Economy"
(January 13, 2003) |
| More Articles on the Housing Market:
The Great Repression, by
Niall Ferguson (February 28, 2009). Ferguson on the only real
solution to the financial crisis, one that the Obama team will come
around to when all else has failed.
Depression in the East Points the Way for the Rest of the World,
by Larry Elliott (The
Guardian [UK], February 26, 2009)
What Is Your Home
Worth? Both Less and More than You Think,
by Sharon Astyk (December 16, 2008)
A Word of Advice in a Real Estate Slump: Rent by David Leonhardt
(New York Times, April 11, 2007)
Crisis Looms in Mortgage Markets by Gretchen Morgenson, March
11, 2007.
Un-Real Estate by James
Grant, April 2005
Housing bubble in
New England (Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy
Studies, Jan. 5, 2003)
"These are perilous times for asset
markets ...." (Ian Campbell, UPI, Jan. 30, 2004)
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"House of Cards: US, UK Home Prices to Decline Dramatically in
Next Few Years."
See
The Economist's survey of May 29, 2003
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"Mortgage Markets Are Out of Control," New York Times, August
17, 2003
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| Co-buying: One
solution to the high cost of housing in the Valley?
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| Considering an adjustable rate mortgage? It may be
a risky proposition. See Homeowners Urged
Caution on Hybrid Loans
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| For the effects of skyrocketing home prices on
communities, see an article by Rebecca Solnit,
Hollow City (as computer money flows
into San Francisco, the quirkiness and creativity drain out). A
cautionary tale for Northampton and other Valley towns.
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About
Us
 Dave Hopkins:
Formative experience: Lived
and worked for some twelve years in India, mostly at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.
Education: BA in South Asian Studies at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dave,
born into a family of builders, has a good eye for construction details and
structure, and for the features of a site. He has built his own house (as
general contractor) and barn, with all kinds of green features, including
photovoltaic panels, double walls, and composting toilets. He is a licensed real
estate broker. Dave lives in Buckland with his partner Joanie, two "country
Scotties" and a farm collie, two Coopworth ewes with their lambs, and ten heritage-breed chickens.
EcoRealty was started by Dave in the
summer of 1999.
Affiliations
- NOFA (Northeast Organic Farmers
Association)
- CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining
Agriculture)
- Northeast Sustainable Energy Association
(NESEA)
- Realtor Association of the Pioneer Valley
- Massachusetts Association of Realtors
Donations
(2009)
- Valley Land Fund
- Franklin Land Trust
- CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining
Agriculture)
- Weston A. Price Foundation (for Wise
Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts)
- Broad Brook Coalition
- NOFA (Northeast Organic Farmers
Association, Massachusetts chapter)
- Red Gate Farm (educational farm in
Buckland, MA)
- Amherst Survival Center
- Hilltown Churches Food Pantry
- West County Emergency Food Pantry
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