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Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard has an item online that claims four unfair reasons make people think a recession is coming. Included on the list (read it HERE) are, and let me paraphrase, business-hating, bitter and…

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Only 4 O.C. ZIPs see home sales gains in late Feb.

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Latest home-selling stats from DataQuick for 22 business days ended Feb. 22 show that only four O.C. ZIPs out of 83 with buying activity above the year-ago period: Orange 92867; Villa Park 92861; Huntington Beach 92647…

Mid-Feb. O.C. home sales off 49%

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DataQuick’s freshest stats show this will certainly be the 29th straight month where buyers bought fewer O.C. homes than the year-ago period as mid-February O.C. home sales were off 49% from a year ago. If that pace…

55% think U.S. home prices will rise

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The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll 1,502 Americans from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2. And I thought many of you would at least like to debate the poll answers in the accompanying box. Other poll highlights…

Early March O.C. home price 20% below ‘07 peak

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DataQuick’s freshest housing stats show a continued painfully slow O.C. market with weak pricing. For the 22 business days ended March 7, sales totaled 1,530 — a hint that March could be the seventh-straight month…