The SacBee reported on Friday that homeowners are losing their homes at an alarming rate compared to total sales. In the Jim Wasserman article, ?Foreclosures gain on sales,? it was pointed out reported, ?For roughly every two homes sold in August in the capital region, one house went into foreclosure.? During the month of August while sales slowed foreclosure activity increased. There were 1,367 foreclosures in the seven county area around Sacramento (Amador, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba).
Looking a bit closer to home, the real estate markets in Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties are continuing to struggle with sales and falling prices. Compared to August 2006 sales of existing home were down 32.9 percent in Sacramento County, 7.2 percent in Placer County and 12.2 percent in El Dorado County. The median price of sold home in Sacramento declined 13.9 percent to $310,000. This was down $10,000 from July 2007. In Placer County the drop from last August was, $30,500 (-6.6 percent) to $429,500. Compared to last month the decline was $7,500. Finally, in El Dorado, we saw a decline in the median price from last year of 10.5 percent to $428,750.
In addition to the normally high level of inventory that we generally experience this time of year the number are being buoyed by the large number of distressed homeowners who are trying to avoid a foreclosure by trying to sell at almost any price. At this time there is no ?light at the end of the tunnel? for sellers. The increased credit requirements to get a mortgage has removed a number of potential buyers, builders continue to offer almost insane new home incentives and slow sales in other parts of the country are reducing the number of relocations.
It is very easy to start thinking there is no end to the woes in our local Sacramento real estate market. We have gone from one of the hottest markets in the county to one of the weakest. Clearly, the demand caused by investors and the increased number of buyers due to new loan products, drove prices up beyond what the average household could afford. There is no way to sustain price appreciation when fewer and fewer households could afford to buy a home. Looking at the California market, I believe there are some strengths in our local market we should not overlook. First, the Sacramento area is a great place to live, work and raise a family. Our economy and employment remain strong with a positive outlook for the future and maybe most important is that our affordability index is better than many other parts of the country. I recently met a waitress who told us that she and her husband have recently moved here from Southern California. She noted that the prices are high here but they have a much higher probability of buying here. As some of the baby boomers retire in the bay area they will look for less expensive places to live and I think we provide a good alternative.
However, ironically though this British band, in an interview with the Prefix magazine quoted that they barely know what Myspace was, and their fans had originally created the website for the band on this section of MySpace.Another figure in the music scenerio, Lily Allen's fame is said have due to the favour of MySpace as well.This popstars had been earlier promoted over MySpace music section,which followed the popularity,many claimed.But iroically this had been denied by the popstar herself on an interview over Triple J,Australia.Nevertheless MySpace is well known among the music personnels.G4'S hit show ?Attack of the Show' features a special section,regarding this website,called ?MySpace Girl Of The Week?.
The minimum age to register as a MySpace user is 14.by default the profiles within the age group of 14 or 15 are private. The users who are 16 and beyond have options to confine their profiles. There are additional options, which allow specified personal data to be restricted to the members in their ?friends list'. In recent times the site has gone through a lot of criticism. A number of news reports have brought MySpace to focus in recent times. These reports state the vulnerability of the teenagers that the restrictions of MySpace has exposed them into but my space has assured parents about the safety of the website. It states that the site is risk-free for people of all ages. Later, in the end of June 2006, the people with age group of 18 and beyond were prohibited from adding people with the age range of 14-15 unless they know their full names or email addresses. But the drawbacks of these restrictions are that if the users have hidden their age while signing up then the perpetrators cannot be traced by any means. For example, in June 2006, a 19 year old user was allegedly accused of sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl and the girl sued the company and news corporation of 30000 million as a result of damage. Another 16 year old girl, Katherine Lester lured her parents to make her a passport and fled to the middle east for living with a man she met through myspace who was 20 years of age. She was then convinced by the US officials in Jordan to return back to her country.
Although much emphasis is put on whether the availability and restrictions of Myspace should be monitored amongst the young adults ? Myspace has continued to grow. Regardless of many contradictions within the policy and strict terms and conditions set by the Myspace authorities ? there are illegal transfer of popular Myspace accounts for the exchange of large amount of money continuously provoking the underground and popular buy and sell forums around the web.
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