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<\/a><\/p>\nI have a newsreader (the thing that acts like a newspaper but with blog posts). I regularly follow approximately thirty different real estate and mortgage related blogs. If you follow my twitter posts, nearly half of them are about the content of these real estate blogs.<\/p>\n
Over the past year, almost all the blog posts have been bad news.<\/p>\n
– Pricing drops in nearly all geographic areas
\n– Substantial home builders filing for chapter 11
\n– Stories about massive foreclosures
\n– Tales of woe, misery and pain<\/p>\n
My conversations with my colleagues and network contacts were dismal and depressing<\/p>\n
About a month ago this started to change. <\/strong> Certainly there are still numerous examples and stories about the down economy, but I began to notice bog posts and news stories that I have not seen in quite a while.<\/p>\n Here are some of these posts just from last week:<\/p>\n Sales of Existing Homes Rise, Fueled by Tax Credit<\/a> \u2013 Builders Online Blog<\/p>\n New-Home Sales Rise 4.7% in February<\/a> \u2013 Builders Online Blog<\/p>\n Signs of Recovery<\/a> \u2013 Homes Sales Insights Blog<\/p>\n Signs of Life in California Real Estate<\/a> – CNN Money Blog<\/p>\n WHAT\u2019S THIS?!? Phrases such as, \u201cRise\u201d, \u201cRecovery\u201d, \u201cSigns of Life\u201d in blogs posts? Prior to this week, I had not seen blogs posting with these words.<\/p>\n Are there problems? Absolutely, most of the blogs are still talking about the problems, however there bits and slivers of positive things are starting to creep into blog posts.<\/p>\n And I have seen more of it in the past week than in the past year.<\/p>\n Do we have a still more to go? Yup.<\/strong><\/p>\n Do I think were at the bottom? Yup.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\nRelated articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n
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