By Mandelman What if you could know the answer to that question? Well, if your loan is in a securitized REMIC trust now you can… read on. You couldn’t keep up on your mortgage payments. Maybe they went up, maybe your income went down, or maybe it was both things happening at once, but whatever […]

New Aurora tasting room waits for time to shineLodi News-SentinelThat spurred three generations of the family to grow up traveling between Mexico and California as farmworkers. By pooling their resources, four brothers (Victor, Armando, Ramon and Gerardo Anaya) planted the first vines of Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit … …read more

By Mandelman CNBC’s Diana Olick says the downturn in home sales is worse than expected. I’m guessing she means worse than she and the cheerleading squad at CNBC expected, I’m not really sure… but it can’t be me she’s talking about, because the numbers today are nowhere near as bad as I expect them to […]

By Mandelman CNBC’s Diana Olick says the downturn in home sales is worse than expected. I’m guessing she means worse than she and the cheerleading squad at CNBC expected, I’m not really sure… but it can’t be me she’s talking about, because the numbers today are nowhere near as bad as I expect them to […]

Indian Billionaire Developer Mangal Prabhat Lodha Enters London, Buys $500 …ForbesMumbai-headquartered real estate developer Lodha Group, founded by billionaire Mangal Prabhat Lodha, announced Friday that it has inked a $500 million deal with the Canadian government to purchase Macdonald House in central London. and more …read more

By drhousingbubble The cash buying and investor segment of the market has been the major catalyst for the current run in real estate. Record low inventory coupled by low rates brought on one of the best year-over-year returns for real estate. The investor crowd can easily pullback as quickly as it dove in head first. […]

San Joaquin County led the nation in housing price appreciation over the past year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency reported this week. …read more

Forget The Farms And Shopping Centers. Here’s A Look Inside Billionaire Stan …ForbesStanley Kroenke made his fortune in real estate developing warehouses and shopping centers, many of them used by Wal-Mart, which was founded by his wife Ann Walton Kroenke’s uncle. Since then he’s amassed a sports empire that includes the NFL’s St. …read more

By Mandelman What a wonderful day, Thanksgiving Day has always been. It arrives each year, right in the middle of the week, the stores are, or at least were, closed and for most people, it’s followed by three glorious days of weekend, during which the holiday season officially begins. Oh, I know some people work […]

Billionaire Bunkers: Beyond the Panic Room, Home Security Goes Sci-FiForbesIt starts with a property’s perimeter. “The exterior has always been the holy grail because you could never really protect it without 24-hour guard service,” says Christopher Falkenberg, a Secret Service agent turned security specialist for high-net … …read more

Luxury Property Brokers Raring To Pounce On Wealthy Art Lovers At Miami Art …Forbes“Many people come here with intention of buying a piece of real estate this week,” says Ron Shuffield, president of Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell Realtors, South Florida’s Christie’s International Real Estate affiliate. “But for many people, it’s a … and more …read more

Here’s What The Philippine Bubble Deniers Are Getting WrongForbesU.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke infamously denied the existence of our housing and credit bubble in 2005, at the exact same time that I was publicly warning about it. Central bankers have proven time and time again that they simply cannot …Not a bubble economy just […]

Real estate prices have skyrocketed in San Francisco, making it more lucrative for many owners to sell than rent. Robert Earl Davis said his landlord notified him he was going out of the rental business and that he will be evicted from Apartment 72, which he rents in San Francisco, on Nov. 19. Davis has […]

Your guide to local businessesSan Francisco ChronicleFEATURED LISTINGS. Ambassador Toys – 186 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco. (415) 759-TOYS. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. daily. www.ambassadortoys.com. City of Dublin – 100 Civic Plaza, Dublin. (925) 833-6600. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. www.ci.dublin.ca.us. and more …read more

Mortgage loans maintained their recovery course through the first half of 2013, as more loans showed greater signs of improvement. …read more