 Connect With Me:    | madhausContact Info: About Me: madhaus is the primary content creator for Burbed, the site for San Francisco Bay real estate, mortgage, and financial insanity. The Northern California real estate market has its excesses and Burbed is there to preserve them for your reading pleasure. As long as there are lazy, sloppy, ineffective, incompetent or dishonest real estate "professionals" on the job, Burbed will have plenty of material. Join us for snark and bad photos, stay for the true real estate facts and the economics, finance, politics, and law behind it. Plus the occasional Prop 13 rant. I just can't help myself. Remember, Listing Fail equals Burbed Win! madhaus joins Bay Area Real Estate Trends to share regional Burbed topics of interest and her observations on the utterly insane Silicon Valley real estate market. |
This past weekend I had a couple of recent posts on Burbed showing several indications of a new bubble market in real estate. If you’ve been reading this site or almost any other Northern California real estate blogs you’re already familiar with the low inventory and high pricing going on today. And if you’re in [...]
The world of real estate is full of paperwork, forms, disclosures, and many other ways to put yourself to sleep. Clever agents can use this to sneak important facts right under the buyers’ noses without them ever realizing it! Let’s see this in action with an actual listing that you can buy right now. (Now! [...]
Like maps? You might find this new mapping tool useful in distinguishing neighborhoods… provided you aren’t looking in the “Real Bay Area.” It takes Census tracts and shades them according to their median income. The term “Real Bay Area,” or RBA, started as a joke on Burbed but it seems to have taken on a [...]
I’ve got a new piece on Burbed on why SF house prices and rents going up so much, which is a response to this article on CNN/Money. The article is actually pretty interesting, going more deeply than usual into causes of low supply and high demand for the high end. I’m republishing my piece here in full, [...]
I’m the primary content creator for Burbed, and people send in all kinds of housing fail for the blog. Our readers often comment on how the local markets are doing when they send along a problem listing. And I’ve now heard from three different Mountain View correspondents that anything listed in the good close-to-Google neighborhoods, [...]
Republished from Burbed. While the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, News Corporation, is getting a proper punching across the pond, let’s see how Rupert Murdoch’s business-as-usual cheerleader reports on the causes of The Second Great Depression. Twelve Facts That May Surprise You About the Housing Bust By Nick Timiraos, The Wall Street Journal, May 4, [...]
Happy Monday! We’ve got another exciting story for you, about some riveting residents who really respect realtards. Read on! Squatters issue restraining order against real estate agent KTVU Channel 2, Posted: 9:49 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2012 ANTIOCH, Calif. — A Bay Area real estate agent said she’s being taken to court by squatters in [...]
