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A few examples of Rancho Bernardo home owners who are below the curve on timing the real estate market (some as much as $230K). Some homes are actually listing under 2004 prices. I am sure these set of owners will not be the last to be on this prestigious list.
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By Lauren Baier Kim, Wall Street Journal
New data released by the Census Bureau shows that the vacancy rate of homes for sale, at 2.7%, or 2.1 million vacant homes, is at its highest level since the bureau began tracking it 40 years ago, according to a Wall Street Journal Online article. These properties, many of which are likely held by investors, could bring housing values down further as prices are slashed to attract buyers, WSJ Online says. Meanwhile, CNNMoney.com reports that figures released by Case Shiller Weiss indicate that nearly every major housing market in the U.S. has seen price declines in November. Showing the largest year-over-year price declines that month were Boston, with a 5% dip, and Detroit, with a 4.5% drop, CNNMoney says. The biggest year-over-year price increases were in Seattle (13%), Portland (11.6%) and Miami (7.4%), according to the article, which includes a chart summarizing market trends for 20 U.S. cities.
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The New York Times
House flipping in California last year declined to its lowest level since 2003 as speculators retreated from a market in which sales plunged and prices flattened, a market tracker said recently.
Properties owned for six months or less accounted for just 3.2 percent of resales last year, down from 4.2 percent in 2005 and 3.6 percent in 2004, according to the San Juan Capistrano-based HomeSmartReports.com.
Overall, flippers sold the properties for a median $45,000 more than they paid, somewhat lower than $52,000 in 2005. If there were improvement costs, profit would be correspondingly lower.
In 2003, when HomeSmart-Reports.com began tracking flipping, the practice of buying and then quickly selling a property, it accounted for 2.4 percent of resales.
The company tracked public records and considered a property flipped if it was owned for six months or less.
In Los Angeles County, flipping accounted for 3.6 percent of sales last year, versus 4.4 percent in 2005.
This level of activity is not surprising because sales last year were well under the 2005 level. Prices, though, have not plunged because the economy is still growing, albeit at a modest pace.
“What’s happened now is the flipping activity is just reflective of today’s real estate climate,” said Steve Morgan, the company’s senior vice president.
“Investors, if they can, have adopted a buy-and-hold strategy until prices come back up.”
And if prices don’t start rising some owners will be forced to sell and cut their losses, he said.
Flipping was highest in Kern (4.7 percent) and Riverside (4.3 percent) counties last year, and lowest in Napa County (1.9 percent) and in rural Sierra foothill counties (2 percent).
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