Date

Apr

29
2008

When the median is low

No, it wasn't a typo. The median price of single-family resale homes in California fell 29 percent in March compared to the same month last year, falling from $582,930 to $413,980, the California Association of Realtors reported this month. Sales, meanwhile, were down 24.5 percent year-over-year in March.

Robert Kleinhenz, deputy chief economist for the statewide Realtor trade group, provided some additional details about these statistics in an interview with Inman News.  more...

Inman wants to know

Has anyone heard about foreclosure investors getting Section 8 certificates? Inman News publisher Bradley Inman brings this up in the comments of a story today from Dartmouth Professor John Vogel on solutions for current housing and foreclosure problems. (See Vogel's full perspective here.)

If investors are getting these certificates, we may be accidentally turning our vacant stock into affordable housing, Inman points out.  more...