Each week, Los Angeles-based real estate agent Bill Gross summarizes changes in the market and important industry news that you need to knowl.
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Take Zillow Listings With A Grain Of Salt
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Zillow has built a business by pretending to be a service for buyers but, in reality, makes its money by selling the buyer's data to subscribers. There is a saying in high technology industries that "if you are not the customer, you are the product." In this case, not only does Zillow sell its readers data as its primary business, but its data is v…
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Is the Government Hindering Homeownership?
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Ronald Reagan famously said that the most dangerous words in the English language are 'I am from the federal government and I am here to help." One area that is obviously true is in the area of housing policy, where are the federal government has consistently increased its role over the past 90 years the results have gotten worse.…
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Can We Solve Homelessness If We Spend More Money?
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One of the reasons that the government never improves is that those in charge of our systems are never held into account. While businesses are given immediate feedback every by customers, sales, and lost sales, government officials seem to just fail into their next job. This week we'll reflect back on the work of our mayor Karen Bass and our govern…
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The Government Is Using Climate Change As An Excuse
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In business, we are held accountable for our results. If I don't sell a home or do it properly, I get fired. I only get more business when I do well. That's also true in sports. A team that loses results in coaches, players, and management getting fired. Only in the US government do incompetent idiots keep their jobs, get raises, and promoted, year…
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Don't believe your lying eyes, our government is telling us
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As I reviewed the news for this week's podcast, I notice how almost every story is a case where the truth is obvious, but someone in our government is telling us otherwise. What is going on?By bill7r
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Homelessness Isn't A Crisis - It's An Industry
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Each week, Bill reviews the current state of real estate.By bill7r
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Somewhere, in accordance with the fears of our founding fathers, the federal government morphed from servicing the country to servicing their own personal and financial needs. While this transition was often hard to see, now we have government officials saying this almost out loud, and it is clear in the real estate industry.…
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Which is more dramatic, the loud cry about the "housing affordability crisis" in the news, or the silence of any real progress, consistently, for the last 20 years? The "crisis" is documented regularly, but what is the root cause? Of course, without knowing the cause you cannot solve the problem. It is clear that the real estate news and our govern…
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The Problem With Real Estate In California Is...California
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When I began my career in California real estate in 1986, it was the Golden State. We had the biggest and best market, were the envy of every other state in the union. Our organizations were healthy and growing, and real estate was a huge and growing business. Almost 40 years later, not only is the real estate industry stalling nationally, but Cali…
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When I was young, the American Dream was to buy your home with a bedroom for each child, a white picket fence, yard in front to share with neighbors, yard in the back for your kids to play. Increasingly, that is getting harder and harder in the US. But its not an accident, it is a feature and goal of our government. How can I say that?…
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It's Not An Affordability Crisis, It's A Bad Economy
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The real estate news seems to bounce back and forth between finding bad actors to blame for housing problems and the "affordability crisis," as though it is some sort of virus that has just come into our economy. But there is a simple explanation, its just that the government and their pandering news organizations don't like the answer because it p…
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When government officials or their marketing division, the press, say they are working on housing "affordability" or pass a program to solve it, they are lying. That's the only conclusion in that these programs do not work, have not worked, and will never work.By bill7r
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Real Estate Market Update 1/9-1/14 2024 |
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Business Insider summarizes the state of the US housing market in 5 charts If you listen to this weekly report, you will see I most often am critical of the real estate news industry. Truly, that is not my nature, its just that I feel responsible to call out what is routinely misinformation for my clients and colleagues. While there still is plenty…
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