Bay Area Real Estate Trends

It’s refreshing to see the concept of home-ownership as The American Dream continue to get debunked – especially by respected, hip publications like Dwell. The American Dream, some say, is all about owning a home. Here’s how you can live the dream without the picket fence or the mortgage. From An Introduction to Renting: I rent. [...]

While the bubble itself has popped, we as a society remain driven by the same greed and egomania that got us into trouble in the first place. We are traveling the down same road as before, in the same direction. Despite the warning signs and mounting debts, we still think this is the road to [...]

One of the big problems with the media is that they get a lot of revenue from the real estate industry. For newspapers, and even online companies like Trulia and Zillow, their customers are real estate agents -and they often pander accordingly.

For better or worse, things have changed, and our perception of what success is should be changing with the times. If the worlds youngest billionaire, and now “Man of the Year” can build an empire and change the world from a rented house, you shouldn’t feel bad because you decide that home ownership isn’t the right thing for you.

Owner occupants should never consider home price appreciation in their purchase decision. For one, most people dramatically overestimate how much house prices will go up. When people start factoring in appreciation, they are usually just playing games with numbers to find some rationalization for an emotional decision they already made.