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            <link>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/buyer-urgency-shows-the-time-to-buy-is-now.html</link>
            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Buyer Urgency Shows the Time to Buy Is Now</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Homebuyers are looking at the
current home prices and low mortgage interest rates and seeing an urgency to
buy now. The growing fear is that these prices and rates won't last forever.



Recent housing surveys who that
many Americans feel the now is a good time to buy a home. The most recent
Fannie Mae Housing Market Survey showed that 73 percent actually feel this way,
according to the March 2012 survey. This is a 70 percent increase since just
February 2012.



The chief economist a... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:53:34 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/vacation-home-sales-on-the-rise1.html</guid>
            <link>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/vacation-home-sales-on-the-rise1.html</link>
            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Vacation Home Sales on the Rise</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Buyers are returning to the vacation home market in record numbers. Unfortunately, what they're finding is that the inventory is low in Santa Cruz County. In this video, Coldwell Banker's CEO discusses the surging vacation home market on Fox Business News.

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  ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:02:49 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/warren-buffets-latest-take-on-real-estate.html</guid>
            <link>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/warren-buffets-latest-take-on-real-estate.html</link>
            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Warren Buffet's Latest Take on Real Estate</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Warren Buffet is a billionaire whose words demand the attention  of others. In a recent interview on CNBC Squawk Box, he was quoted as saying, &quot;I'd  Buy Up 'A Couple Hundred Thousand' Single-Family Homes If I Could&quot;, calling  them very captivating investments in the current housing market. This idea  extends to the Santa Cruz beach homes. 


Warren Buffet  Predictions


As  the local market conditions continue to recover, Buffet believes that the  current home prices and record-low ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:17:37 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/coastal-sales-mostly-exempt-from-distress.html</guid>
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            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Coastal Sales Mostly Exempt from Distress</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
The coastal market in Santa Cruz County has been mostly exempt from short sales and bank-owned sales, as the graph below demonstrates. From January through April of 2011, there were a total of 11 distressed sales in the coastal area of the county, and 53 non-distressed sales. Furthermore, none of the distressed sales exceeded $900,000, while there were 20 sales over $900,000 that were non-distressed.

#-tableau-2011-05-coastal#
... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:36:44 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/visualize-2011-sales.html</guid>
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            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Visualize 2011 Sales</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Check out the following visualization of sales from January through April 2011. One interesting thing to note is that there are virtually no distressed sales in the coastal corridor.
#-tableau-2011-05#... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 18:36:32 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/are-prices-going-up.html</guid>
            <link>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/are-prices-going-up.html</link>
            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Are Prices Going Up?</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
One of the key measures of market activity shifted dramatically into seller's market territory last month, signaling a possible increase in home prices as demand outpaces supply. The Months of Inventory indicator, which shows the ratio of homes for sale (supply) to homes sold (demand) fell to four months of inventory in March from seven months in February. (See the market statistics page for details.)

What's really surprising is the number of homes for sale has declined month over month since ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:56:42 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/silicon-valleys-increasing-dominance-in-tech-sector-bodes-well-for-housing.html</guid>
            <link>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/silicon-valleys-increasing-dominance-in-tech-sector-bodes-well-for-housing.html</link>
            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Silicon Valley's increasing dominance in tech sector bodes well for housing</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[   
Most of us in the Bay Area realize how important Silicon Valley is to the
  region&rsquo;s health and wellbeing. The Valley has spawned many successful startups
  over the years, attracting highly skilled, highly paid workers, venture capital, and
  strong demand for housing. But just how dominant Silicon Valley is in the tech sector
  is surprising even the experts. And it bodes well for the long-term future of our Bay
  Area housing market.


  
Entrepreneur and former MIT research d... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:32:00 -0500</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/high-end-coastal-sales-shoot-up.html</guid>
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            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>High End Coastal Sales Shoot Up</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Sales of homes over $900,000 in Santa Cruz County increased more than 70% in February over the previous month, signaling the high end will rebound in 2011. Year-over-year, sales over $1.5M increased from zero in 2010 to eight in 2011. (See the market statistics page for details.)

Coastal sales in particular are on the upswing, accounting for six of the eight sales over $1.5M.

More and more, I'm hearing buyers say they believe prices bottomed out last year and they're eager to get in before pr... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:23:58 -0600</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/pending-home-sales-increase-136.html</guid>
            <link>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/pending-home-sales-increase-136.html</link>
            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>Pending Home Sales Increase 13.6%</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Pending home sales in California increased in January, according to California Association of Realtor's Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI).&nbsp; The index was 93.6 in January, rising 13.6 percent from December&rsquo;s index of 82.4, based on contracts signed in January.&nbsp; Pending home sales are forward-looking indicators of future home sales activity, providing information on the future direction of the market.

&ldquo;Pending sales typically rise in January from a seasonally slow November an... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:07:56 -0600</pubDate>
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            <guid>http://www.cjdeheer.com/blog/new-design-district-rules-could-keep-pleasure-point-weird.html</guid>
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            <author>cj@cjdeheer.com (CJ de Heer)</author>
            <title>New Design District Rules Could Keep Pleasure Point "Weird"</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
The California Coastal Commission has given its initial nod of support to a set of new building rules that will attempt to protect Pleasure Point&rsquo;s local identity and deter the building of large homes that some feel are too big and out-of-place.



The proposed regulations are a mix of new restrictions and new leniency that will hopefully find middle-ground between those in favor of protecting Pleasure Point&rsquo;s image and those who are opposed to limiting the rights of home- and lan... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:46:50 -0500</pubDate>
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