Archive for September, 2007
SF Chronicle: $65 million will buy you an unfinished mansion on S.F.’s Gold Coast. It would be one of the most expensive houses ever sold in San Francisco – a neoclassical villa with a four-story floating staircase and glass atrium, a facade of French limestone and a roof of 19th century Florentine tile is on […]
SF Chronicle letter to the editor: Clinton’s health-care plan is unfair. Hillary Clinton’s health proposal to tax those who make more than $250,000 to cover the cost is just plain wrong. She considers working couples, doctors, lawyers and business people who are in this tax range as wealthy. This is unfair to those who want […]
Washington Post: Sunbelt City in Grasp of Housing Undertow. Or talk to the Shevlins, a real-estate agent and a carpenter, whose combined incomes dropped from $350,000 to less than $60,000 in two years. Now they are down to a middle-class income.
CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo interviewed Angelo Mozilo, CEO of Countrywide, the huge mortgage and financial company whose stock has been taking a beating as the housing bubble has started to deflate. He’s been selling enormous amounts of stock in the last year, making about $129 million, or about a third of the $406 million he’s collected […]