Author watches ‘1,800 mph financial catastrophe’

O.C. home pricing falls $250,000 from top

Zillow exec explains $3.3 trillion in home losses

1st profits since 2006 seen for O.C. builder
Click to enlarge JMP Securities stock analyst James Wilson says that Irvine-based Standard Pacific Homes could be profitable next year, ending a 12-quarter run of red ink, The Associated Press reports. According to company filings, Standard Pacific h

South County homes hard to buy
The latest O.C. home inventory report from Steve Thomas at Altera Real Estate in Aliso Viejo says that as of November 25 … Hottest Supply Deals Mon. Yr. ago Price Ladera Ranch 83 71 1.2 1.5 $1.0m Lake Forest 95 70 1.4 1.1 $486k Portola Hills 11 8 1.4 1.6

Demand for O.C. homes at 8-month low
The latest O.C. home inventory report from Steve Thomas at Altera Real Estate in Aliso Viejo notes demand for Orange County housing (as measured by deals put into escrow the past 30 days) as of last Wednesday is at a low last seen in March … The distractions of the holiday have finally seeped into the Orange County housing market. Demand, the number of new pending sales over the prior month, dropped by 6%, 203 homes, and now totals 3,038. That’s still better than 2,466 posted last year or 1,243 two years ago.

Next peak for big properties? 7 years off
Nadji One in a series of commercial real estate forecasts … Sixty-one percent of investors responding to a survey say it will take from three to seven years before commercial real estate values return to levels seen at the peak of the market, an industry executive

7 ways social media is in fashion
sOCial sunday tracks Social Media because it’s real business — notably, a hot marketing tool. Style Week Orange County — a high fashion event that ballooned in stature last year when host Irvine Spectrum Center landed Lauren Conrad to unveil her new fash