Altos Research: How's The Market?
On the Real Estate Market, Mostly in Real-Time
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December 16, 2009
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If you’re new to Altos Research, check out our main web site to learn about how we do our real estate market data and how you can benefit from it. Ever wondered how in an entire state like California housing prices are able to stay so seemingly unaffordable seemingly forever? Even after two years of [...]
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December 1, 2009
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Ah the glorious Home Buyer Tax Credit. Consumers lust for it, and NAR spent a fortune getting it extended. Realtors are indeed finding it a valuable incentive for business this year.
And housing stimulus goes beyond the tax credit too, the feds are pumping money into mortgages, keeping rates on conforming loans ridiculously low.
But Uncle Sam [...]
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November 15, 2009
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We like to think we have better and more insightful real estate data than you can get anywhere else. For our real estate agent and broker clients, we also work hard to make it super easy for you to use that data. AltosCharts are the leading real estate market data widgets and have been since [...]
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November 11, 2009
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We released our latest National Real Estate Report this week.
We’ve been publishing this report for two years now. In it we look at 30 metro markets around the country plus the Altos 10-City Composite for a national view. Prices showed resilience for the first half of the year but have been inching down generally since [...]
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November 8, 2009
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“Information wants to be free.”
In 1984 Stewart Brand proclaimed these words to a roomful of hackers. In the 25 years since, the observation has become the justification for an entire internet economy. Everything’s Free! w00t!
What’s less known is that Brand was not referring to price nor to the value of information, but merely to mobility. [...]
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September 22, 2009
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Update: all better now. Off to AltosResearch.com with you
The network host for our primary AltosResearch.com servers is experiencing technical difficulties this morning. We’ve rerouted all web traffic to the blog while it’s being repaired.
Have you read our blog recently? We moved it over to Wordpress a few months ago and have resumed blogging furiously ever [...]
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September 18, 2009
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There’s something like 1.5 million real estate agents out there and at Altos Research we only work with a tiny fraction of them. But the ones we work with are truly remarkable. The best in the business – innovators and achievers all.
So I was beaming like a proud papa when I saw the Spotlight Awards [...]
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August 30, 2009
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Just getting around to posting this, but we had a cool spread over on Forbes.com this week. Altos Research helps Forbes track 500 most expensive real estate markets around the county. They publish the Forbes 500 Lux index each week and once in a while we dive into all the zip codes to see what’s [...]
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