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| Clients only: Register to receive daily
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| A
Realtor's View from Hubbert's Peak: The End of Cheap Oil and Cheap Money
(June 5, 2006) |
| The market has finally shifted in favor of buyers!
See Update: A Buyers' Market.(October
23, 2005) |
| 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:
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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MLS Status Abbreviations
These are the status abbreviations that
EcoRealty clients will see in their daily email updates, which alert you to any
change of status, new listings, listings under agreement, etc.
- ACT = Active listing
- BOM = Back on Market (properties that were
under deposit but are now back on the market)
- BUP = Backup offers possible (under
deposit, but they are entertaining backup offers in case the deal falls
through for some reason). Cf. UAG.
- CAN = Cancelled listing
- EXP = Expired listing
- EXT = Extended listing (listing agent's
agreement with seller has expired, but has been extended)
- NEW = New listing
- PCG = Price Change
- RAC = Reactivated listing (listing agent's
agreement with seller has expired, but has been renewed)
- SLD = Sold (closing has taken place)
- UAG = Under Agreement (offer has been
accepted, no backup offers entertained)
- WDN = Withdrawn (seller has withdrawn the
property from the market)
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