ECONOMISTS SURVEYED by Fortune magazine are critical of Obama’s proposed new financial regulations.

The CRE community should become aware of proposed new regulations and related constructive criticism.  Via Bubble Meter.

APPRAISAL CUTS jumped significantly in September from August.

This isn’t a surprise in a falling commercial market.  This article in the CA Real Estate Journal reviews the CRE market statistics.

THE S&P/CASE-SHILLER home price index for July moved up including San Francisco.

3 Oceans has the story, and a roundup of mortgage market news, including interest rates going up next month.

The upward move in home prices in July is very temporary.  Lower inventory spawned the price increase and seasonal buying.  But lenders are holding thousands of REOs off the market, the Shadow Inventory.

Housing Needs Stabilization

BLOODHOUND BLOG has a thought for the day: government as a necessary evil.

For the first time I’m seeing political posts on real estate blogs.

This is a good thing.  I haven’t seen real estate blog post in favor of the current Administration.

INMAN NEWS advice on picking URL names to optimize search engine recognition.

I have struggled to understand how search engines work.  I think this article gives good advice to use the “long tail” search, and register related names to maximize the chances your URLs will be picked up by Google, Yahoo, and other search engines.