Earlier this week I showed some typical single family home sales right above the cut-off point for the highest of the three tiers measured by the SF Case-Shiller Index. (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, go read the linked article. Go on, read it.) That is, how much house can you get [...]
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Primary content editor at Burbed.com, the website for Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco listing, price and mortgage insanity. Burbed is the premier SF Bay Area bubble site. Remember, Real Estate is Real Funny.Living Large on Case-Shiller’s Top Tier
January 16, 2012
Yesterday, Burbed had a guest post from Greg Fielding on Bay Area Case-Shiller tiered data (it’s a reprint of his article from this site). This is my reply to it, which originally appeared on Burbed in a slightly different form with far more in-jokes than I’ll subject you to here. In case you haven’t been reading any [...]
FICO Now Predicting Mortgage Walkaway Likelihood [Burbed.com]
November 19, 2011
Owe more than your house is worth? Is your credit otherwise good? Do you have few credit cards but pay them on time? Congrats. You’re a likely candidate for strategic default, according to FICO (formerly Fair, Isaac), the company synonymous with credit scoring. And now Moody’s took a look at the mortgage market and said the most likely homeloaner [...]
January 20, 2012
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