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Month in Review, March 2009: Part 1, the market’s busted?

22 April, 2009 (10:20) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Months In Review available here: Feb 09, Jan 09.]
 

On the first anniversary of the Bear Stearns Banking on Value bailout, we are twelve months further in to the most comprehensive restructuring of the global capital and financial markets that any of us have seen in our lifetimes, and we’re at least partly in the [...]

Month in Review, February 2009

19 March, 2009 (09:55) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[Previous Month In Review available here: Jan 09.]
 
[A complete set of 2008 Months In Review available here: Dec 08 Part 1, Dec 08 Part 2, Nov 08, Oct 08 Sep 08, Aug 08, Jul 08, Jun 08, May 08, Apr 08, Mar 08, Feb 08, Jan 08]
 
Amid all the hoopla regarding capital markets and houses [...]

Month in Review January 2009

23 February, 2009 (11:09) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

[A complete set of 2008 Month In Reviews available here: Dec 08 Part 1, Dec 08 Part 2, Nov 08, Oct 08 Sep 08, Aug 08, Jul 08, Jun 08, May 08, Apr 08, Mar 08, Feb 08, Jan 08]
 

Recently house prices have been through the twister
 
Such a whirlwind have we been riding, at least [...]

Broken windows, broken rules

11 February, 2009 (10:18) | Admin, Property management, Speculation, Tenure, Theory | No comments

Order?  Chaos?
 
To read the Web, you’d think graffiti was a harmless and even beneficial vibrant expression of urban culture, something to be celebrated and preserved, but ask any property manager and the response would be unanimous: they hate it.  So do local police.  As the City of Santa Ana, California puts it:
 
What is tagging?
 
Tagging [...]

Month in Review, December 2008: Part 2, things looking up

26 January, 2009 (12:51) | Admin, Month in review | No comments

Previous Months in Review available here:  [Nov 08, Oct 08 Sep  08, Aug 08, Jul 08, Jun 08, May 08, Apr 08, Mar 08, Feb 08, Jan 08]
 
[Continued from Monday 19th’s Part 1.]
 
Reviewing an active December, yesterday’s post cleared out the bad news; now we turn to the more pleasurable sport of excoriating those who we [...]