Archive for October, 2009
[But is it Critical Mass-ready? Via Curbed SF Flickr photog meligrosa]
· The other ad measure: banning them on street furniture [SF Examiner]
· Identical tract homes, ravaged by irrepressible individuality [Julia Baum]
· Afternoon history lesson: the freeway planner [Quarterman]
· Law professor: it’s cool to “walk away” from your home [Developments]
· Graffiti artist Girafa (“Steven Free”) arrested [SFist]
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This week’s top stories: Market Street: Car-Free AND Muni-Free?, Flip It Good: Infinity Tower II’s First Resale, Rendering Reveal: More Affordable Housing for Mission St., Coming to the Mission: Pimp My Auto Body Shop, That’s Rather Hideous: San Jose Marbleopolis Edition, Seriouser and Seriouser: The Bay Line, Condos on the Bay Bridge, Lennar’s Second Hunters Point Reveal: “Organic” Growth!
Philadelphia’s new and supposedly improved property values, heralded as the solution to a broken tax system, are so filled with errors that it may take up to two years to get them right, according to the city budget director.
The Wall Street Fraud Watchdog has been demanding a settlement from Wells Fargo bank for its involvement in auction rate sales to completely innocent consumers, since July. Auction rate securities were sold as just like cash, completely safe, with no risk. The auction rate securities markets failed in February of 2008. According to the Wall Street Fraud Watchdog, "Attorney General Jerry Brown has been sitting on evidence since April 2009, that Wells Fargo was actually talking about auction rare securities risk in internal e-mails, in November of 2007. Yet AG Brown has yet to do anything about it? The question is why?" The group is saying, "why are there no prosecutions with auction rate securities & big banks/investment banks. For that matter, why have their been no prosecutions over mortgage backed securities fraud,bond rating agencies inflating the ratings of poor quality mortgage backed securities, and numerous other Wall Street Scams?" For more information please contact the Wall Street Fraud Watchdog at 866-714-6466, or contact the group at Http://WallStreetFraudWatchdog.Com (PRWeb Oct 28, 2009)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/10/prweb3120464.htm
The Vail Academy is giving away a ski vacation home in Vail, Colorado. The grand prize for the school's 2009 Home Raffle is a 4-bedroom Vail home valued over $1 million plus $450,000 in cash to pay the IRS. (PRWeb Oct 28, 2009)
Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/vail/homeraffle/prweb3113374.htm
Home prices may be rebounding in much of the rest of the country, but the bounce hasn’t hit Seattle yet. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home-price index of 20 major cities climbed 1 percent from July to August on a seasonally adjusted basis.