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2008 

Bruce Norris and economist Gary Watts of Impact Real Estate continue their conversation from last week.  This week they discuss when this current real estate downturn began, what statistic told us we were headed into a downturn, if Southern California is different from the rest of California, wh...
02/29/2008
I have serveral clients asking about website serives.  We have always done our own but for those that don't want the hassle, I'd like to point them in a direction.   NLS looks promising but I'm curious if anyone has experience with them and their website product.  A new REO agent friend needs som...
02/22/2008
Bruce Norris is joined this week by economist Gary Watts. Bruce and Gary discuss Gary’s long history of forecasting in California, what surprised him in 2007, how the financing industry put the breaks on the low and high end inventory in California, psychology playing a role in the California re...
02/22/2008
Bruce Norris is joined this week by builder consultant and founder of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, John Burns.  Bruce and John discuss how busy John has been consulting investors and builders who have never experienced a downturn, what industries these new investors are coming from and if ...
02/15/2008
I was recently introduced to the concept of Second Life a few months back during a statistics class.  Yes, the topic was extremely off topic but the instructor just couldn't control his excitement.  He spent 45 minutes describing how people in our world were creating another life in this unique o...
02/08/2008
This week Bruce Norris is joined by Executive Vice President of PIMCO, Mark Kiesel. PIMCO is one of the largest specialty fixed income managers in the world, with $746.3 billion in assets under management and more than 900 employees in offices globally. Bruce and Mark talk about the strategies o...
02/08/2008
This week Bruce Norris is joined once again by Chief Economist for The California Association of Realtors, Leslie Appleton-Young. Bruce and Leslie discuss how lenders are exiting existing properties differently this cycle, feedback from frustrated REO agents, a due on sale moratorium, why adjust...
02/08/2008
The California Real Estate Crash Was Predictable!   At the club meeting, we'll talk about:   Why the downturn was inevitable Why the economists were wrong How these economists will be misleading you into believing the worst is over Five dangerous things that will happen in the next 12 months Why ...
02/01/2008
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