Daily Archives: October 31, 2008

That should do it for this afternoon. Have a great Halloween.

If you can’t move, improve your present situationIt’s all very well for me to suggest, as I do below, that this is the perfect time to take advantage of our economic mess and the uncertainty it’s created by buying a … Continue reading →

The month is (almost) upAbsent a flurry of reporting in the next 45 minutes, we’ll have seen just ten contracts for single family houses this month. That compares to 33 last October, which was not a banner month itself. So … Continue reading →

Real estate pricing theory, high-end style So let’s say that you paid $25.75 million for waterfront at 112 Field Point Circle in June of ’07 (the Old Victor Borge place, now missing his house). You decide that you may have … Continue reading →

Did you hear the Happy News? (From someone else’s column) ” For the nation, existing-home sales increased last month as buyers responded to improved housing affordability conditions” A cynic might describe “improved affordability conditions” as the bottom dropping out of … Continue reading →

With enemies like these, it must be a great ideaWe voters have a choice next Tuesday to call for a Constitutional Convention – no agenda beyond that, but all hell is bound to break out if citizens meet to discuss … Continue reading →

Here’s a sad story:Murtha pleads for money to save his seat after calling constituents racists “We need to raise another $1 million to compete,” his campaign fundraiser Susan O’Neill wrote in the e-mail obtained by The Hill. “We need money … Continue reading →

I realize that different jurisdictions can have different lawsBut what law sees students arrested for hanging an Obama effigy when a Sarah Palin figure or or an effigy of a U.S. soldier is hanged with impunity?