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		<title>Price Per Square Foot - the New Metric?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many&#160;recent comments on this blog have been made regarding how the reported median home prices don&#8217;t tell the whole story when it comes to home values in Reno.&#160; For this reason many of our readers have expressed a desire to see $/sq.ft. sold price data &#8211; the idea being that the $/sq.ft. data might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Block</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One Block looked at the financial health of a group of fairly upscale houses on Dancing Aspen in Damonte Ranch.&#160; Average purchase price was about $420,000 at the peak.&#160; I was pleasantly surprised that most of&#160;the&#160;loans were pretty good (5/25 or better),&#160; and at least 70% brought 10% or better to the closing table.
I just [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Zillow&#8217;s latest Home Value Report, home values in Reno decreased 16.5% in the first quarter of 2008, compared to the first quarter of 2007. Nationally, single-family home values decreased 7.5% while condo values declined 9.0% during this same period. See map&#160;and&#160;download report.&#160;
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		<link>http://renorealtyblog.com/2008/05/589.html</link>
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		<title>Washoe County Recordings for April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washoe County re-sales increased for the third consecutive month (up 20% over March); however April new homes sales decreased in April over March (down 11%).&#160; Summing re-sales and new home sales results in a nearly 9% increase in Washoe County recorded home sale recordings for April over March.&#160; 605 recordings vs. 556 recordings.
Unfortunately this sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reno Sparks Residential Market Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sales in April 2008 were off 24% from the year prior, but activity in the low end continues to improve. The under $300K range decreased to 12 months of inventory with another big jump in pendings from 370 to 490. The $300K-500K range came down to just over 12 months of inventory showing improved activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April Median Prices and Units Sold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 31% increase in the month-over-month number of homes sold in April stands out as the big news this month.&#160; I, as well as many agents in my office, can attest to the increase in client activity lately.&#160; These numbers seem to support our perception.
The median sold price also increased for April, with a noteworthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary April Numbers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little taste of what happened last month&#8230; 336 homes sold at an average $310,925 after 151 days on the market. 4,269 still for sale. The median price was at $263,169. Remember, I include manufactured home classifed as real property. The detailed report should be done soon.
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		<link>http://renorealtyblog.com/2008/05/preliminary-april-numbers.html</link>
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		<title>No Point in Posting&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Because all the great conversation is happening in Mikey&#8217;s last post. Scroll down and check it out&#8230; It&#8217;s one of the best, most informative comment threads I&#8217;ve ever seen on this blog, including lots of new faces never before seen. Sure, I&#8217;ve got a ton of poignant, economic fallout posts courtesy of voracious reader, Reno [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REO Sales - Waggin&#8217; the Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The March sales numbers from the Center for Regional Studies finally got released today, and some very interesting (and disturbing, if you are a seller) trends are emerging.&#160; 55% of all resale SFR&#8217;s and condos recorded by the Assessor&#8217;s office were REO&#8217;s county wide.&#160; In both January and February, 35% of recorded sales were REO&#8217;s.
Using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://renorealtyblog.com/2008/04/reo-sales-waggin-the-dog.html</link>
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		<title>Life in the Land of Earthquakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I thought when I moved from Northern California to Nevada, where nothing ever happens except for Vegas, where whatever happens there magically stays there anyway&#8230; I would completely leave the whole Bay Area earthquake thing behind. Turns out, Nevada is the number three state behind Alaska and California for earthquake activity, which [...]]]></description>
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