Comments on: Real Estate News & Views

By: real estate supplies

real estate supplies — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:35:55 +0000

Oversized House Syndrome definitely exists. My mother has it. I thought she was the only one i moved into 1500 sqft apartment and i got clostraphobic, ran out of there in 2 months. I promise you, it exists.

Cheers,
Lannah H.

By: Baby Sling

Baby Sling — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:12:30 +0000

Everyone should check out “The Not So Big House” by Sarah Susanka. It addresses all of these issues with those awful houses: building quality space instead of quantity space. She’s written a whole series and they are very enlightening!

By: Ms. Place

Ms. Place — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:56:54 +0000

When my husband and I built our second house, we believed in passive solar houses, small bedrooms, large family living areas, wooded lots or open fields, and energy efficiency. I still live in a neighborhood with modest houses (once built by lawyers and doctors and now considered starter homes) and huge lots. New million dollar ‘tenements’ have sprouted all around us. In these new developments, neighbors can look into each others houses and hear their dogs bark. The woods and fields have been destroyed, and wildlife has had no choice but to cross roads to look for a place to forage for food. Largely they get hit by cars This is sheer madness. Has no one considered the European model, where the countryside is preserved and cities are kept in good order?

I am glad the housing boom has stalled. Perhaps people will come to their senses.

By: real estate Toronto

real estate Toronto — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:35:07 +0000

Very interesting article. According to first part (foreclosures) – I just hope it will settle down soon. It’s hard, but it was inevitable, once the bubble is started, there’s always cruel fall at the end. As Katherine said, we in Canada (I am dealing with Toronto real estate ) have situation calmer, however, nothing is safe even here…
And according to millionare houses – it comes to me very stupid, to have several huge houses and leave it empty for the most of the year. Such wasting of enviromental resources…

By: hookedonhouses

hookedonhouses — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:04:02 +0000

You are so right, Tracey. I couldn’t hack it. You lose your sunglasses or keys or purse and have to spend hours traipsing around the house looking for them!

Did anyone look at the pictures on the MLS site I linked to? What did you think? I wasn’t too crazy about it myself, but maybe it’s just not my style.

By: Tracey

Tracey — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:43:33 +0000

Who the heck wants to clean a house that big? Even if we had a cleaning service you still have to keep the place picked up and try and remember where you put things…too big!

By: hookedonhouses

hookedonhouses — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:26:41 +0000

Yeah, I really feel sorry for those people. We have a slightly similar situation in our town right now because of the schools. We actually moved here because the schools were rated “Excellent,” but a year later they ran out of money to run them. They’ve put levy after levy on the ballot–the most recent last week–and they’ve all been defeated.

What this means is that our schools have been put on “emergency fiscal status” by the state now, and no one can sell their homes because no one wants to move here. Big, gorgeous houses have lowered their prices to ridiculous levels in desperation, but still no takers.

True, no drug dealers have kicked in any doors in my neighborhood, but I still sympathize with the plight of anyone who finds themselves bound by their real estate!

Maybe we all need to move to Canada with you, Katherine!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:13:28 +0000

Wow… I just read that article from The Atlantic. That is insane. That’ is actually kind of scary – but it all makes sense… I’m really glad we don’t have the same kind of mortgage market in Canada so we don’t see things to that extreme very often but.. YIKES.

Wouldn’t that be an experience – buy your dream home and in a few years you’re totally in a pickle since half of your neighbors have been foreclosed, you can’t sell your house for its value because nobody wants to live on a ghost street with crime..

AHHH.