Archive for June, 2009
Alameda Point: East Bay Express edition
Rin Kelly has done it. Written the perfect Rorshach test for Alameda Point. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. Apparently it doesn’t matter what her article says (and says well and fairly), you can see that it has proved you right all along. Which either says something about the readers or about the writing…and I’m going with readers on this one.
New Listings for June 21-29
With so many graphs and spreadsheets yesterday I held off on the posting the new listings. So today’s post is a video of Alameda’s Single Family homes listed this week. I have included a list of all properties below.
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Link To Listings
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rw41Us1MPKNrIpNLdtwCLMw
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Council may place second fire measure on ballot
I got so wrapped up in this whole business about the Alameda Point initiative the other day I forgot to mention the other big electoral news from Saturday’s League of Women Voters meeting: The news that the city is creating a companion for the firefighters’ minimum staffing measure which is due to be set for [...]
Blue Rectangle holds Non-Profit Night tonight
Just got an e-mail from the good folks over at Blue Rectangle, and it sounds like they’ve been hosting a monthly Non-Profit Night. This month’s is at 7 p.m. today at the store, which is at 1355 Park Street.
Here’s how it works: Five or six nonprofits send representatives to the store for the event (signups [...]
Business retention survey online
Alameda’s Economic Development Commission wants to know how the city can best serve its business during these economically troubled times. They’ve posted a business support retention survey on their website.
The survey is short (10 questions) and anonymous. The deadline for participating is July 7. To get directly to the survey, click here.
Greetings from Alameda Hospital
Hallmark, look out. Alameda Hospital has an online set of greeting cards, and they’re all free. Get well, birthday, Valentine’s Day – all available to be sent, with a personal message from the sender, Monday through Friday to hospital patients.
Go to http://alameda.netreturns.biz/CheerCards/ to check out the inventory. There aren’t a lot, but still, [...]
Please sir, may I have some more
I never understood how Don Roberts made the decision when to refresh his website and start on a “clean slate” so to speak. Was it ten posts? a weeks worth? a gut feel? It will always remain an Alameda mystery, like the Burrito tunnel.
Anyway, this particular post (and subsequent response) caught my attention. Have you [...]
Nancy K. Filson Says Something Has to Be Done about Her Neighbors
I have read Letters to the Editor discussing problems with the Megaplex, Measure Acorn, Squirrels, Law-breaking Realtors, and so much more. But none of this compares to the troubles that I want to tell you about: My next-door neighbors.
Let me begin by describing the indescribable deeds put forth by the family adjacent to us on the West side. They have a dog that barks. Constantly. I have taken detailed counts and this dog has barked perhaps twelve or thirteen times in a single week. That this is intolerable goes without saying.
This same neighbor often dares to park their car in front of my house.
And let’s not forget their children. It sounds like I am living next to an insane asylum. Often I hear screeching and squawking at all hours of the morning and the afternoon. Thank goodness they keep their windows closed most of the time! And once in a while I hear the sounds of these children out in their back yard — actually, what’s worse is that I can actually see these little monsters above the fence that separates our yards. They are usually sitting down in some box filled with sand (perhaps stolen from our local beaches?) blabbering on about this and that. Absolutely inconsiderate if you ask me.
Now you may think this odd, but one evening last October, these children (strangely dressed for some reason), with their parents prodding them on, had the nerve to ring our doorbell and ask for candy. It was some odd ritual happening that evening because not only did they bother us, but several other families from around the neighborhood did the same!
What really lights my fire about this family is that for some reason, our postal carrier often delivers their mail into my mailbox! Are they truly trying to drive me mad? Every six months or so I get fired up enough to take the stack of letters over to their house and shove it forcefully through their door.
Now you think this is bad, you have to hear what my neighbors to the East do. Late at night, if I happen to be awake to go powder my nose, I often hear incessant coughing coming from the house. During the daytime, however, I don’t hear a thing. What are they up to over there? It’s downright creepy. I rarely see anybody go in or out of the house, and when I do, it’s often somebody in a nurse’s uniform. Are they playing some kind of strange game over there?
There is a bit of a foliage issue as well. There is a tree that sits just on their side of the property line that blocks my view of the sunrise. It’s unbearable, and I can’t do a thing about it. I have half a mind to go knock and their door to complain about that tree, but I find that it’s much more effective to call 911 and tell the police about it. One of these days I’m sure they will come out and do something about this nuisance!
You think I’d be done talking about my neighbors, but there is one more! What’s that, you say? How can you have another neighbor if you’ve talked about both sides of your house? It’s a trick question, because there are also neighbors behind us, and they are the worst of all! They have a garage unit right up against the property line, and there are no gutters on the roof, so every time it rains, the water slides off the roof and lands in my garden. Thank you, dear neighbors whom I’ve never seen, but I get plenty of water from the heavens above my own property, I don’t need your water as well. Especially when it lands right on my geraniums and nearly drowns them.
So as you can see, none of the issues that have been covered in this Noosepaper are of any significance when compared to the troubles that I have with my neighbors. What can I do to make this stop?
Warmest Regards,
Nancy K. Filson
Monday profile: Eddie Muller
When Eddie Muller says he’s a contemporary renaissance man, he’s not kidding: The onetime newsman has not only earned the nickname “Czar of Noir” for his authoritative tomes on film noir and his annual film festival, he’s written films, amassed materials for a boxing museum and concocted his own cocktail. (And that’s not even the [...]
Alameda Inventory Up to 14 Week High
June has brought the Alameda Real Estate market two trends, an increase in inventory and more price reductions. Inventory has been building at a moderate pace and has reached a 14-week high. Home sellers that have reduced their property at least once in the sale reached a four week high.
Inventory for the Island reached 173 units; the low was back on February 1 when the inventory dropped to 146 units. The inventory average days on market is 70.
Although inventory has been increasing the numbers have been small, it appears that the basically sales and new listings have been in balanced. As homes sell about the same number have come on the market.
This trend leaves the Alameda markets very stagnate. Unlike most of the state where Existing, single-family home sales increased 35.2 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted rate of 556,590 on an annualized basis.
This doldrums that the Alameda market has drifted in is due to the limited inventory and the high median home price. Alameda’s median home price in April was $592,500 and May $555,000, a month-over-month decline of 7-percent. The statewide median price of an existing single-family home increased 4.2 percent in May to $267,570, compared with April 2009.
Home sales increased 35.2 percent in May in California compared with the same period a year ago, while the median price of an existing home declined 30.4 percent, the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) reported.
Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled 556,590 in May at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, according to information collected by C.A.R. from more than 90 local associations statewide. Statewide home resale activity increased 35.2 percent from the revised 411,770 sales pace recorded in May 2008. Sales in May 2009 increased 2.9 percent compared with the previous month.
The statewide sales figure represents what the total number of homes sold during 2009 would be if sales maintained the May pace throughout the year. It is adjusted to account for seasonal factors that typically influence home sales.CAR’s Unsold Inventory Index for existing, single-family detached homes in May 2009 was 4.2 months, compared with 8.7 months (revised) for the same period a year ago. The index indicates the number of months needed to deplete the supply of homes on the market at the current sales rate.
For Alameda inventory is at 6.6 months at current sales levels.
New Listings for June 21-27
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Alameda Inventory: June 28, 2009
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