Los Angeles South Bay Beach Cities Housing Bubble

Why have I not blogged about the South Bay real estate market in two years? Because it would have been a complete and utter waste of time. What has positively changed since the earthquakes star...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2011/05/los-angeles-business-journal-uptick-in.html

My intent is to publish the dollar volume charts on a quarterly basis. These charts show data through the end of March 2009. Generally, sales volume has rebounded somewhat. Last year during Q1 ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/04/los-angeles-county-south-bay-beach.html

Hi everybody! Recall that last week I posted announcements about the South Bay Tea Party to be held on April 15. The reason why I volunteered to help organize this event was because we need to ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/04/your-south-bay-housing-bubble-blogger.html

This is the third time I've seen the new 27-unit Ruxton Lane condos go on sale. Long time readers remember my visits there and my posts. If you're curious you can review most of this ongoing stor...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/04/ruxton-lane-news.html

This press release was submitted to me by South Bay Tax Day Tea Party: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! “By Land and By Sea” South Bay Tax Day Tea Party ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/04/south-bay-tea-party-by-land-and-by-sea.html

Folks, I know I've been neglecting the local housing data but I got drafted into an organization that's organizing a Tea Party protest for April 15 - and I want housing bubble bloggers to come! ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/04/south-bay-tax-day-tea-party-be-there.html

This story, written by Gregory Wilcox and published in the Daily Breeze on March 11 , shows the news catching up to what Mr. Mortgage and a few others have been warning us about now for some time...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/03/foreclosure-cataclysm-hits-anew-in-la.html

The Los Angeles housing market continues to be mired in this downturn. According to a March 9 story by Joel Russell in the Los Angeles Business Journal, the median price of a single family reside...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/03/los-angeles-business-journal-median.html

The January jobless rate increased from 9.2% in December to 10.5%. This is the highest since 1993, when Southern California was being battered by our previous housing downturn. This is also "the ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/daily-breeze-los-angeles-county-jobless.html

Muhammed El-Hasan at the Daily Breeze reported on South Bay home prices today, saving me work (thanks Muhammed!). The story sub-headline notes: > Median decline is smaller than in rest...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/daily-breeze-south-bay-home-prices.html

I got an email tonight from Standard Pacific that says they sold over 20 homes in the first four days of showing (out of 87 homes). That is a slightly brisker pace than I was expecting, but by no...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-on-foundry-civil-unrest.html

We went and took a model tour of The Foundry at 10 AM today and I thought I'd share my impressions. First of all, between these units and whatever is planned at 360 South Bay, the Foundry sta...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/standard-pacifics-foundry-open-house.html

First I want to tell readers that I will NOT be going into work (UCLA) on Saturday the 21st after all. So YES, I will be going to the grand opening of The Foundry , as it is right there next to t...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/redondo-beach-median-price-data-from.html

2008 Redondo Beach short sales, compiled from data out of Zillow, Manhattan Beach Reporter, and Los Angeles County Tax Assessor. Dates are approximate. Zillow and MBR data do have inaccuracies, p...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/2008-redondo-beach-short-sales.html

I've pretty much got my listing and sales database caught up, just in time for the deluge of spring listings. However, I'm desperately trying to strike a balance between 1) blogging, and 2) lif...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/cardqnews-2008-summary-for-redondo.html

RealtyTrac has improved its mapping capability somewhat since the previous (and first) time I posted maps of distress . Now, instead of saying Too many properties on map when it gets overloaded, ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/beach-cities-maps-of-distress.html

First of all, I hope you are a regular reader of Mr. Mortgage. I consider him one of the top RELIABLE authorities on the state of the real estate market here in California. He is in the process o...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/beach-cities-repeated-warning.html

I figure the South Bay, specifically the beach cities area, is about 18 months to 2 years behind the rest of California and the nation psychologically in terms of how the real estate crash is pro...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/catching-up-on-south-bay-residential.html

According to a February 9 story by Francisco Vara-Orta in the Los Angeles Business Journal, the median price of a single family residence (SFR) in Los Angeles County took a "jaw dropping" 35% hit...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/la-business-journal-median-home-prices.html

SURPRISE! Bet you thought you'd never see these charts again, did you?! I wish I could tell you that prices have been plummeting in the South Bay and it's time to scoop up bargains, but it ain'...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/02/los-angeles-county-south-bay-beach.html

I have no idea when I will get back to this blog. I've been diligently clipping Redondo Beach home sales out of the local papers. I've got a stack of Los Angeles Business Journals sitting here in...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2009/01/quick-note-on-housing-valuations-in.html

Thanks to some of you for your emails asking where the heck I am. I have been so busy at work that not only have I not been keeping up the blog but we had to cancel our vacation. Trust me, I'd ra...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2008/10/dqnews-los-angeles-beach-cities-resale.html

According to a September 8 story by Charles Proctor in the Los Angeles Business Journal, home sales in Los Angeles County started sliding again in August after enjoying a bit of a summer bounce. ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-business-journal-median-home-prices.html

Shorewood has not yet published their end-of-month data for July so I'll give them a nudge. Check back on this blog for an end-of-July update. In the meantime, on to August. The summ...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2008/09/los-angeles-county-south-bay-beach.html

The Case-Shiller Index was released for June 2008. According to the index, the Los Angeles area median home price was down -25.3% from June 2007, and down -1.4% from May 2008. The entire Composit...

http://sbbeachbubble.blogspot.com/2008/09/standard-poors-los-angeles-area-median.html