Tag Archives: home prices

A Good Time To Buy?

January 3, 2009 – 2:02 pm

James Bednar weighs in:
Yes, there are opportunities in the current market, but they are still pretty rare and require a buyer to be very flexible. If I had to put a figure on it, I’d say that roughly 1 out of every 50 listed homes represented a better value than what we’ve seen in the [...]

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Home Prices Drop In October

November 24, 2008 – 8:37 pm

I’m trying to limit the number of doom and gloom posts here on HIB, but it’s hard to ignore this one.
From Bloomberg: Home Sales Fall, Record Drop in Prices

Home resales in the U.S. dropped in October and prices fell by the most on record, signaling a deepening housing recession going into 2009.
Purchases of existing [...]

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On The Fence

October 20, 2008 – 11:41 pm

From NorthJersey.Com. Hat tip to New Jersey Real Estate Report
House-hunters Play Waiting Game
David DeFabiis of Hackensack has been house-hunting for more than a year.
He’s got a good job, a great credit score, a sizable down payment. He’s been prequalified for a mortgage.
But he’s afraid.
“I’m afraid that a house I buy today will not be worth [...]

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Sold Homes In Second Half of August

September 13, 2008 – 11:33 pm

Here are the rest of the houses sold in Babylon in August 2008. This a followup to this post on home sales in the first half of August. There’s not a lot here that we’d have been particularly interested in. This makes a total of 11 homes sold in August. With 95 homes in MLS [...]

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Sold Homes in Babylon Village – First Half Of August

August 23, 2008 – 11:16 pm

These are the six homes that sold in Babylon Village in the first half of August 2008 according to MLSLI’s intermittently functional sold homes tool.
The missus and I didn’t get to see inside of any of these places. Mostly because none of them were really on our radar for various reason. We were debating about [...]

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The Housing Market Considered As Pre-Season Giants Tickets

August 18, 2008 – 11:16 pm

I’m sitting here tonight watching the Giants beat up on the Browns in their second pre-season game of the year. Thing is, instead of typing on my laptop and watching the game on the tube, I could be at the game right now. Over the last week or so, I’ve seen plenty of tickets for [...]

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