July 2011

So there goes July...

We don't want to say sellers are afraid of the 6-man this weekend, because they're not. If you look at a list of opens, there are plenty to check out.

But debuts…

It turns out that July was a good month to be in distress.

Not even 3 weeks ago, we mentioned 8 MB listings that were in some form of distress – REOs, shorties and homes facing foreclosure –…

We happened by a scraping today, once a familiar sight around MB, increasingly more so again.

This prompted us to catch up on a few goings-on around the Hill Section, where recent buyers have…

Kaye Thomas notes with some chagrin that the "conforming loan" limit will soon slide backwards from $729,750 to $650,000.

We're going to wonder more here about bigger-picture issues like the…