Daily finance had an interesting interview with Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time. Jeff Speck is an architect and city planner in Washington DC and served on the Mayor’s Institute on City Design. He also served on the Sustainability Task Force of the Department of…
According to DQ News, home sales in Loa Angeles and Southern California rang in at 17,859, which is a 20.4 percent drop from the 22,438 sales in August 2012 and down 1.6 percent from 18,149 in September 2011. Although it’s normal for a sales drop from August to September, the steep drop this year is…
DQ News reported that homes sold in Southern California rose for sixth consecutive month to 22,075 for June 2012. This number was down .5% from May 2012, but up 7.5% from the 20,532 sold in June 2011. True, Southern California sales rose 7.5% from a year earlier, but most of the uptick came in the…
For April 2012, DQ News reported that 19,284 new and resale homes sold Southern California last month. That was down from March by 3.4% and up 5.1% from the 18,344 sold in April 2011. April’s median price was $290,000 for southern California, which is up 3.6% from $280,000 in March, and also up 3.6% from…
For March 2012, DQ News reported that 19,953 new and resale homes sold Southern California last month. That was up from February by 36% and up 2.8% from the 19,412 sold in March 2011. The average increase is 37% from February to March since 1988, when DataQuick’s statistics began. This sounds like great news, but…
DQ News reported that 14,523 new and resale homes sold last month. That was way down from December by 24.5% but up .4% from January 2011. Normally, sales are down from December to January because investors frequently want to close before year end and traditional residential buyers hold off until March or so to get back…
And again, there’s not much in the way of good news to report regarding home sales in Southern California for October 2011. DQ News reported that 16,829 new and resale homes sold last month, which is down 7.3% from September 2011 and up ½% from October 2010. Median price at $270,000 is down 4.6% from…