Americans’ Expectations Align to Encourage Home Buying More consumers may be looking to purchase homes with a shift in several key housing market indicators, according to Fannie Mae’s March 2012 consumer attitudinal National Housing Survey. More Americans now expect both home rental and home purchase prices to increase over the … Read More »
Archive for April, 2012
Tree Trouble on Property Lines
When a tree is planted between property lines, disputes may arise, and an otherwise neighborly relationship may be strained. Or perhaps a tree fell, and now no one knows who should cover the cost. From dangerous tree removal to the just plain annoying tree debris landing in the yard, there … Read More »
California Foreclosure Reform Update
From Housing Wire By Jon Prior • April 18, 2012 • 12:34pm Seven bills reforming some foreclosure rules passed committees in the California state legislature this week. The bills were introduced in February. One set of bills extends protections to tenants, giving them 90 days before eviction after the foreclosure sale of … Read More »
How to adjust your underwater mortgage
Bakersfield’s real estate bust was certainly one of the worst in the country, and because of that, many homeowners have faced real challenges when evaluating the mortgage on their home. To a lesser extent, there was also plenty of pain felt by homeowners along the Central Coast too. Underwater homeowners … Read More »
Foreclosure rates drop nearly 15% in San Luis Obsipo County
Here is another great sign of economic stability and home ownership stability in San Luis Obispo County. According to CoreLogic, The Foreclosure 12 – Month Percentage shows the percentage change in home foreclosures in San Luis Obispo County. CoreLogic records this data from banks and public record sources. … Read More »
How Interest Rates impact the housing market
Here in California, buying a home or other property is a factor of loan affordability. Today, we see a lot of “cash buyers” in the market – but that simply means that they have already arranged financing. In this borrowing home ownership economy, the interest rates play a very significant … Read More »
Aiming to sell takes focus
When selling a home in an unfavorable market, it can be hard to face some facts. Most likely, your home will not command the price you want. It might be hard to cut your losses and move on. And you may find you have more emotional ties to selling your … Read More »
Goodness in Skydiving and Real Estate
Century 21 real estate agents have recently been on adventures to expand their personal courage and promote local charities. It is partially personal mission and partially component of the Century 21 mission of “Smarter, Bolder, Faster.” Recently, the Arroyo Grande Relay For Life, a chapter of the American Cancer Society … Read More »
Who is tracking you online – home safety update
Ever visit a website looking for something, for example houses? Then every other time you searched for something else, Zillow, REALTOR.com, Trulia or some other real estate brokerage website shows up first in your search rankings! Some say “pretty cool… how’d they do that”. More and more are saying “OK, … Read More »
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