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	<title>Comments on: Mountain View Housing Market Update - August 2007</title>
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		<title>by: Steve Leung</title>
		<link>http://www.1siliconvalley.com/mountain-view-housing-market-update-august-2007/#comment-436</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Blake,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks for pinging for clarification.  My intention was to say that Mountain View was on fire in July, but if you're looking to put your home on the market *today*, you should be careful about your number because buyers are more uncertain now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(Just like higher numbers at the pump, people will get used to the higher percentages.  It'll take some getting used to though.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The line I would emphasize to them is, &#34;Sellers are confident because of this disparity [ed. low CDOM number], but we’re moving into a slower part of the Silicon Valley market cycle in a period of uncertainty with mortgages.&#34;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I'll update the first line to make it more clear and I'm going to add a comma between &#34;cycle&#34; and &#34;in&#34; in the last sentence because there are two separate ideas there.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cheers,&lt;br /&gt;
Steve &lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Blake,</p>
<p>Thanks for pinging for clarification.  My intention was to say that Mountain View was on fire in July, but if you&#8217;re looking to put your home on the market *today*, you should be careful about your number because buyers are more uncertain now.</p>
<p>(Just like higher numbers at the pump, people will get used to the higher percentages.  It&#8217;ll take some getting used to though.)</p>
<p>The line I would emphasize to them is, &quot;Sellers are confident because of this disparity [ed. low CDOM number], but we’re moving into a slower part of the Silicon Valley market cycle in a period of uncertainty with mortgages.&quot;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll update the first line to make it more clear and I&#8217;m going to add a comma between &quot;cycle&quot; and &quot;in&quot; in the last sentence because there are two separate ideas there.</p>
<p>Cheers,<br />
Steve </p>
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		<title>by: Blake</title>
		<link>http://www.1siliconvalley.com/mountain-view-housing-market-update-august-2007/#comment-435</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>"Higher interest rates for jumbo mortgages is a story for another day, but it does color what I’m about to write. "

I'm not sure I picked up on the connection. Shouldn't the recent increase in Jumbos be pushing houses in the 1MM+ range into slower territory? Your post demonstrates the opposite, I think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Higher interest rates for jumbo mortgages is a story for another day, but it does color what I’m about to write. &#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure I picked up on the connection. Shouldn&#8217;t the recent increase in Jumbos be pushing houses in the 1MM+ range into slower territory? Your post demonstrates the opposite, I think.
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