California Inventory Jumps from 3.8 Months to 5.8 Months in January – Total California Housing Inventory 154,000 Homes. How Many Homes are in Mortgage Limbo and Don’t Show up in These Stats? If we take Distress Data About 793,000 Homes.
Rarely do we ever see an actual total inventory report for California because this would require a count of each county in the entire state. I try to track all this data in a spreadsheet since obviously the most important item we have in measuring California real estate is the actual quantity of homes we [...]
California Housing Inventory – 3.8 Months of Inventory if we only look at Public Data. The Financial Math behind California Home Prices and Artificially Low Inventory. Distress Inventory Still Dominating Market.
For a state like California getting an accurate figure on total inventory is always a challenge just because of the size of the state. Throw in the large amount of inventory that is held off view from the public and it is hard to get an accurate figure of what is out there. As of [...]
Strategic Default and Walk Away from that Albatross of a Mortgage – Strategic Default increased by 68 Times from 2005 to 2008 in California. The Economic Psychology of Walking Away and is a 200 Point Drop in Your Credit Score Worth Holding Onto a Property?
As the stigma wears away and more Americans find themselves with unmanageable housing payments, many are making the conscious decision to walk away from their mortgage. What occurs in a walk away, as opposed to a standard foreclosure, is the borrower is making a business decision to stop making their housing payment. Now this compares [...]