We were out there last week, then Real estate school and inclement weather kept me from updating. Zillow did such a great job, I’m just going to turn you over to Diane Tuman, who was kind enough to add in our video interview with the Augustin family!
In case you missed it on Frontburner.
To check out the President’s newest property (properties) acquisition(s) this weekend. I get to be tour guide once the reporter gives me a bell:
“I arrive Friday evening and will be knackered. But if you fancy a tootle around Preston Hollow on Saturday or Sunday, that’d be great.”
That’s what Zillow reports, trolling (and rightfully so) for customers. Yo, local mortgage brokers, what are the rates in Dallas today? Is 4.7 fixed for thirty years, conforming or non-conforming? Points? Homestead or second/investment property? Does the Fed want us all to refinance?
This story says there are bargains to be found in the Hampton’s — that is, if you think a $1.537 million second home is a bargain. (Here’s former Lehman Brothers president Joseph Gregory’s $32.5 million Bridgehamton vacation pad.) I have an idea: turn this place into a fractional ownership for those of us who lost money with Lehman. Any legal minds out there want to litigate this?
Meantime, Tamarack in Idaho is under, while Credit Suisse is fighting to hang onto first lien status with uber-exclusive Yellowstone Club, which is just a mess , bankrupt and smarting from bad press due to the nasty divorce of it’s great-looking founders, Tim Blixeth and his ex (?), Edra. Also pulled in: luxury second home big boys Discovery Land Co. Interim lender CrossHarbor Capital Partners is trumping and may end up owning the joint because Credit Suisse apparently could not cough up enough cash for a debtor-in-possession loan:
“While it is highly unusual for a major lender to be pushed out of the first lien position in a bankruptcy, Credit Suisse may turn out to be too late with its latest plan.”
About this time last year I tried phoning YC to write up properties as Hot Props in D Home — they acted as if I needed a security clearance and was trying to find the president’s war-time bunker. We ended up in Big Sky.
But Dallas Addison, who develops second home properties in east and south central Texas, as well as Hawaii, tells me the second home market is still pretty strong. (Posting his story soon: Dallas tells me that Hawaii’s Big Island gets so crowded with residents’ private jets they have to haul them off to other islands for parking.) Glad to hear it: I haven’t been on a Lear in forever.