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Memo to lenders, appraisers: Go, sin no more Fri, Jan 2, 2009 | Add a comment The "reform” phase of the late national housing bubble — rest in pieces — fell this week on the relationship between lenders and property appraisers. It’s twilight in...
Avoid wrong turn at housing’s mixed signals Fri, Dec 26, 2008 | Add a comment Sometimes it’s hard to sit and wait for the light to change at the complicated crossroads of Hope and Fear, News and Opinion. A rank stranger wrote: "I e-mailed you 6 weeks ago or so. I...
Housing crisis hitting a little closer to home Fri, Dec 19, 2008 | Add a comment Uh oh. It looks as though Oklahoma City housing did get a little airy after all. One, both the average and median price of homes sold in the metro area fell significantly in November. The average...
Come home to Oklahoma history for Christmas Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | Add a comment "I’ll be home for Christmas” means a trip back in time for most of us, to roots, old stomping grounds — the old home place. Some of us feel as tied to the past and its places...
Low-rate talk freezes home buyers Fri, Dec 5, 2008 | Comments Comment on this article2 Let your yeas be yeas and your nays be nays, y’all — because the dithering in Washington, D.C., over what to do to revive the housing market is gumming up markets — even ours...
Lived-in home quirks are treasures, not flaws Fri, Nov 28, 2008 | Add a comment It’s not the gorgeous Maria Bartiromo seen in all her high-definition loveliness, finally, on CNBCHD on a new wide-screen Sharp TV. Not the SpongeBob SquarePants marathon on NickHD — a...
Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association president keeps the faith Sat, Nov 22, 2008 | Add a comment Jim McWhirter has been all over the news pages, Web pages, airwaves and cable lines this year, setting people straight about the housing market. He’s probably been in the media more than any...
Normal housing business gets the boot Fri, Nov 14, 2008 | Comments Comment on this article1 I made a home builder cringe the other day by kidding him about what maneuvers the usually all-business-is-business-and-private-enterprise-is-sacrosanct-oriented National Association of Home...
Legacy apartment sale wows specialists Fri, Nov 7, 2008 | Add a comment "Wow,” I said. "Wow,” apartment broker William Forrest said. "Wow,” apartment broker Mike Buhl said. And there I’ve broken my personal rule against ever...
Best local news for homes not about housing market Fri, Oct 31, 2008 | Add a comment Did you see the most important housing news story this week? It wasn’t the one in USA Today, although that was pretty cool. "Close to home: Oklahoma City’s home sales are holding...
Downtown building’s delays help it stand tall Fri, Oct 24, 2008 | Comments Comment on this article2 Roy Oliver bought a 33-story historical artifact of the 1928-early-’30s oil boom with City Place, now, for all its past glory, sort of an "also ran” skyscraper downtown. No...
Homes sell well if listing price is right Thu, Oct 23, 2008 | Add a comment "Overpriced” is in the eye of the home buyer. Consider: If the owner of a certain house in Edmond priced it to sell fast, he overpriced it when he listed it for $165,900 in early May....
Freak out, shake it off, cowboy up Fri, Oct 10, 2008 | Comments Comment on this article1 Do not move along. There is something to see here. If you haven’t yet, go ahead and freak out — and get it out of your system. OK, now get your breath, calm your nerves and look...

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