Tuesday, May 20, 2008

If the market is down, why can't I find a deal on a house?

The greatest frustration I hear from home buyers is: I hear the market is down, yet when I go look at the prices it doesn't seem like it. That's because prices both vary market to market and even within markets. Fortunately, papers on both coasts are at your service today. The Wall Street Journal does an excellent job of explaining this via New York, Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles in today's "Where Home Prices Are Holding Up" by Jeff Opdyke. Because this UCLA Bruin agrees with the WSJ's note that LA has "no real urban core" (although it has soul) we suggest clicking over to the LA Times' Real Estate blog L.A. Land by Peter Viles. Who just happens to be breaking down the median prices for homes out in LA today.