OC Real Estate Voice» Irina Netachaev http://ocrealestatevoice.com Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:16:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How We Got Here – Understanding Mark to Market http://ocrealestatevoice.com/how-we-got-here-understanding-mark-to-market/ http://ocrealestatevoice.com/how-we-got-here-understanding-mark-to-market/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:50:23 +0000 Linsey Planeta http://www.ocrealestatevoice.com/?p=318 [Continue Reading]]]> While many of us have a loose understanding of how the housing and financial markets contributed to our current recession, many of us are unaware of the ways that the accounting method – Mark to Market – contributed to the magnitude of the crisis.

I’ve heard the term ‘Mark to Market’ before, but my understanding was loose at best.  It was a blog post written by Pasadena’s local expert, Irina Netchaev, that really broke it down in a way that was simple enough for me to get my head around.  Understanding this one facet of the crisis is really eye opening and definitely worth taking 5 minutes to read.

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