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Letters to the Editor
Take a look at what people are talking about on our Letters to the Editor page:
Despite troubled recent past, there is still hope for public broadcasting.
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Homes in the highest-priced tier showed their deepest decline yet in the latest Case-Shiller index.
Court documents show how an alleged cash back scheme duped lenders and fueled the housing market's ups and downs.
Emy Palacios thought she was signing up for a program that would let her avoid foreclosure, but prosecutors say she got duped into taking part in an alleged sham that ended up costing her family its home and $9,000 in fees.
As the real estate industry searches for the bottom, San Diego County home prices dropped 20.5 percent in the most recent Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index.
Hundreds of homeowners looking for a rescue from foreclosure were instead bamboozled into signing over the deeds to their homes, according to law enforcement officials.
A jury sided with a North County real estate broker Thursday in a closely watched case where homebuyers alleged they’d been led to overpay by $150,000.
Even in a down market, a relative newcomer to Mission Beach redevelops the once-ramshackle cottage community to gleaming glass-and-steel condos.
Home prices plunged 21 percent from the peak in January's Case-Shiller index, the sharpest drops in the index's records.
While a significant gap remains between what many would-be homebuyers could afford and the cost of a for-sale unit here in San Diego, the gap is even wider for those households struggling to find a place to rent for a manageable monthly cost.
But away from the water, price drops and foreclosures pinch homeowners just as they have in other corners of the county.
The gap between government-designated affordable condos and their market-rate counterparts once spanned $200,000 at La Boheme, but in a sagging market, a market-rate gives competition to even the reduced 'affordable' units. Another month of spiking foreclosure activity and dropping home prices leaves even those tasked with finding solutions somewhat numbed by the numbers.
While some residents and real estate pros in the northern San Diego suburban neighborhood say it has avoided housing trouble, short sales and foreclosures are slowly increasing.
Some homeowners who took advantage of soaring equity to become first-time landlords are struggling as the gap between their monthly mortgage payments and the rent they can charge grows.
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Featured Stories
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By Rich Toscano
A fact-based research blog on San Diego housing and economics.
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The co-directors of a project to help Tierrasanta residents stay in their own homes as they age say you may have to get older, but you don't have to get old.
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A blog taking a look at real estate, the housing market and jobs in San Diego.
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What San Diego can learn from Shanghai and what it's like to be a woman in the man's world of local real estate development: thoughts from the new executive director of the Urban Land Institute's local chapter.
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Local governments, all over the county, would be wise to follow the lead of the San Diego mayor and prepare for the potential financial effects of a substantial decline in the values of homes.
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