Home Buyer Tax Credit Extended, Expanded!!!

As it now stands, the federal tax credit will be extended through April 30, 2010, with a 60-day extension if a binding contract is in place prior to the deadline. First-time home buyers will continue to be eligible for a tax credit of up ...

Westside Market Update!!!

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List/sale price gap diminishes

List/sale price gap diminishes
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Weekly Real Estate Report

Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Buyer Hesitation Begins ot Dissolve After four years of declines, home sales finally appear to be turning around.  Closed sales, which have risen three straight months, and pending contracts, up for five straight months, are at levels above normal spring and summer increases.         ... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] LOS ANGELES WESTSIDE MARKET UPDATE LOS ANGELES WESTSIDE   Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Heated First - Time Buyer Market Changes Strategies for Buyers and Sellers Heated First-Time Buyer Market Changes Strategies for Buyers and Sellers US home prices are up two months in a row,says the Federal Housing Finance Agency,overseer... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Case-Shiller index improves for sixth consecutive month Although still in negative territory, the annual rate of home-price decline improved last month in the 10-City and 20-City Composites tracked as one of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices released yesterday.  The 10-City and 20-City Composites declined 12.8 percent and 13.3 percent, respectiv... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Quick Real Estate Facts: Existing, single-family home sales increased 9 percent in August to a seasonally adjusted rate of 526,970 on an annualized basis. · The statewide median price of an existing single-family home increased 2.6 percent in August to $292,960, compared with July 2009. · C.A.R.’s Unsold Inventory Index fell to 4.3 months in August, compared with 7 months in August 2008. LOS ANGELES (Sept. 25) – Home sales increased 9 percent in August in California compared with the same period a yea... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Green Tip of the Week: Whole Foods accepts #5 plastics Green Tip of the Week: Whole Foods accepts #5 plastics Email to Friend | Comments[0] Fed leaves key interest rate unchanged, cites improvement in housing The Federal Reserve this morning announced it will maintain its target for the federal funds rate in the 0 percent to 0.25 percent range, and expects economic conditions to warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period of time. “Information . . .  suggests that economic ac... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Tax Credit Ends November 30th $8,000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Ends November 30th Earlier this year, the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that homebuyers wou... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Many underwater homeowners are deliberately walking away from mortgages A study finds that 26% of the defaults across the country are calculated economic decisions to bail out of loans by borrowers who could afford to make the monthly payments. Email to Friend | Comments[0] Market Update From Jack Bitton   Market Update Narrative  - Housing sales are climbing. The National Association of Realtors® reported the largest jump in pending sales in nearly 8 years... Email to Friend | Comments[0] What’s With All the Moaning About Home Appraisals? Lately, mortgage brokers, builders, real estate agents and others in the housing business have been moaning about appraisals. On Tuesday Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Multiple Offers Are Back! Believe it or not-Now is the time to SELL! NOW IS THE TIME TO SELL!  LET ME TELL YOU WHY! ... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Market Update From Jack Bitton Market Update Narrative  - Home ownership in Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Market Update From Jack Bitton   Market Update Narrative  - Home ownership in California has reached unprecedented near-term affordability, and... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] More homeowners turning to reverse mortgages To read the full story, ... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Why credit lines are drying up Home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) have traditionally been popular financial tools with homeowners, as these lines of credit serve as a fallback and in many cases replaced savings accounts. Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Market Matters Low rates put some borrowers in a quandary Borrowers with hybrid a... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Market Update from Jack Bitton Market Update - with a new stimulus package of $787 billion to spend, the Obama administration is spreading the wealth over multiple economic sectors in hopes that at least one will ignite a recovery.  Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Home Buyers In California Can Enjoy Up to $18,000 In Tax Credits Andrea Coombes Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Top Moving Tips Top Moving Tips De-Clutter – Now is the time to clean out your closet and get rid of anything that you don?t need. That... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit Here is a great article from today’s Los Angeles Times…… Email to Friend | Comments[0] Market Update Southern California Home Price Declines Bring Back Pre-Boom Affordability - For The Full Report Click The Link Below:   Email to Friend | Comments[0] NAR Explanation of the Stimulus Bill This link will take you to NAR's explanation of the major real estate related features of the Stimulus bill. <http://go-to.realtor.org/r/GKGA4R/JEIHQ/0Z3V5/ADA7F/H9MGW/QR/h> Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] TIME ON THE MARKET!!! Statistics have shown that inevitably, agent and buyer interest grows as soon as a home is placed on the market, peaking somewhere around the fourth to fifth week.   A marketing plan that is pro-active is an essential part of obtaining a home sale that t... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] The Sale Offer! A Quick Overview   1. The purchase offer is typically written by an agent who represents the buyer’s best interests.   2. Your agent w... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] FSBO - The market knows your home's value.... The market knows your home's value, do you?   Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Interview questions to ask Agents! A SELLERS GUIDE to interviewing a Real Estate Agent to sell your property.   Choosing the right Realtor for your home sale can be very confusing. Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Exposing Your Home on the Internet! YOU NEED TO HAVE THE BEST!!!!!   All real estate agents should find out what today’s home ... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Access Fact! THE FACT OF THE MATTER #4   ACCESS FACT!   Email to Friend | Comments[0] Sell Your Home! THE FACT OF THE MATTER #3   Email to Friend | Comments[0] Paint and Carpet Fact! THE FACT OF THE MATTER #2   PAINT AND CARPET FACT Paint is y... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Price Fact! FACT OF THE MATTER #1   PRICE FACT!  ... Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Prepare Your Home! Why should you spend the time and effort to prepare your home BEFORE placing it on the market?    Continue Reading | Permalink | Email to Friend | Comments[0] Pricing your home..... SETTING THE PRICE OF YOUR HOME……   Email to Friend | Comments[0] Subscribe to this feed