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2019 Summertime Blues
Bad news is starting to pile up around the housing and apartment markets in the San Francisco Bay Area. Let’s be real… markets go up and down. This may, however, be a reflection of weakness in the employment market of … Continue reading
Making a Comeback
The year 2019 started off a little rocky on the employment trail. The month of May saw a significant comeback in job growth, but the year ahead remains cloudy. See recent Employment Data here.
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Cloudy with a chance of change?
After a strong year-end burst of job growth, January 2019 started with a big, loud boom. Not a good boom… a drop of 77,900 in Bay Area employment. February 2019 saw some recovery, but the picture is a bit muddy. … Continue reading
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Is It Really That Calm Around the Bay?
Was at a large meeting today with appraisers from all over. Consensus about 2019? There is none. Lots of speculation about the direction of the real estate market in the coming months. We will have to wait and see. Saturday … Continue reading
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Another New Year
Welcome to 2019! Statistical data always takes a while to go from real world to data gathers to data analysts like me. Some November 2018 data is available for housing prices and employment plus full year residential mortgage rates. It … Continue reading
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Toppish?
I’ve added a few new graphs showing home listing/sale and price trends for San Mateo County. Let’s be clear that affordability is an issue here. It’s not a debate. To purchase the average sale price home ($1,777,341 in June 2018), … Continue reading
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Hardly a Tsunami
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we get tsunamis all the time… fog tsunamis… With all the news about the economy doing so well you’d expect a wave of new employment, but not so fast. June 2018 employment stats … Continue reading
Photo Challenge: All-Time Favorites
Well… good-bye to photo challenges! Not my favorite photo, have too many favorites, but a nice pic and a parting thought about time passing by.
Photo Challenge: Place in the World
An interesting question is keeping me from work this morning. Erica V. asked “…explore what it means to find your place in the world. Where’s your safe space?” I thought about it for a moment and quickly settled on two … Continue reading
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Photo Challenge: Unlikely
If you met me at a party you’d figure me to be a color inside the lines kinda guy. Sometimes I go outside the lines to an unlikely place when it comes to taking photos. Here are three recent examples … Continue reading
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