24/7 Wall St.: The best cities to flip a house

Home flips, an important measure of housing market activity, declined 35% in the third quarter of 2013. Flipping a house — which involves buying, renovating and then reselling it — peaked in popularity in the fourth quarter of 2012, when more than 67,000 homes were flipped. As of the third quarter of this year, nearly 33,000 homes were flipped.

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San Diego Has Been One Of The Country’s Hottest Housing Markets, And Now It’s Really Starting To Slow Down

If you want to keep your pulse on the US real estate markets there are few better places than Southern California.  The local market here in San Diego has been red hot in 2013, but is really starting to slow down.  In fact, September was one of the weakest years in the last 5 years.

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