Sarah Scafford of International Listings recently wrote a guest post in Pat Kitano’s Transparent Real Estate talking about the differences between timeshares and fractional ownership. Most of what Sarah writes is spot-on.
I am fortunate to own a fractional at Old Greenwood in the Truckee/Lake Tahoe areas and get to spend 3 weeks a year in a wonderful […]
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Time Shares compared to Fractional Ownership
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Vacation Property · Real Estate
Los Altos Market Data
July 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Dave Blockhous of Coldwell Banker Los Altos recently did an analysis of the current Los Altos market. In this post, Dave compares market activity (number of sales and listings & average and median prices) over the first six months of the past couple of years. His analysis comes to much the same conclusions as my […]
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Middle income people are being squeezed!
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
David Shafer of Uncommon Financial Wisdon wrote an excellent guest post on Jeff Brown aka the BawldGuy’s Blog about how the current squeeze on middle income families occuring in our country should effect one’s investment decisions. Jeff is a San Diego real estate broker who specializes in finding good investment properties outside California.
I can certainly say we see this trend […]
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Current loan underwriting standards
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Much has been written about how the new loan underwriting standards make it more difficult for buyers to qualify for mortgages.
I have two different buyer clients who are currently being impacted by these new standards.
Both are single professional woman who are looking to buy their first homes.
The first has a sales position where her compensation […]
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Weekly Mortgage Update
June 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Linda Lunsman of Princeton Capital writes:
“I NEVER WORRY ABOUT ACTION, BUT ONLY ABOUT INACTION.” ~ Winston Churchill. These words proved especially true last week, as the big story was the Fed’s lack of action following their recent meeting, or decision to leave the Fed Funds Rate unchanged - but is the Fed’s decision a cause […]
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Annual Home Sales
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Here is the a chart showing national annual home sales.
Sales have decreased each year since 2005.
Calculated Risk which has lots of cool data on its site prepared the above chart.
Tags: Real Estate Data · Real Estate
Woodside Plaza Charmer
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments
I have just listed a very charming updated home in Woodside Plaza, Redwood City.
This 3 bedroom ranch style home has a new kitchen, updated bath, new hardwood floors, and new Anderson windows. The residence is situated on a large corner lot with spacious private back yard. List price was originally $869,000 and effective April 5 is $849,000.
Virtual […]
Tags: Redwood City real estate · Real Estate
San Mateo and San Francisco Counties are doing just fine !
March 9th, 2008 · No Comments
USA Today published a fascinating study of local economies throught the nation.
Most states are doing just fine !
Here’s the map:
Most of California is at risk or already in recession.
Only Bakersfield, Santa Cruz-Watsonville, and San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City are in expansion.
Very interesting !
Is it only a matter of time before San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City join the […]
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Weekly Mortgage Update 2-16-08
February 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Linda Lunsman of Princeton Capital writes:
Last Week in Review
“CUTS LIKE A KNIFE, BUT IT FEELS SO RIGHT” Bryan Adams And financial pros will tell you it’s wise to never try and catch a falling knife. Seems like decent advice in general - but in the financial world, it means that when the price of […]
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White Oaks San Carlos Fabulous New Listing
February 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Sarah Hillhouse of Coldwell Banker has just listed 148 Colton Ave., San Carlos for $998,000. First tour is Tuesday February 12th. This property will not be on the market long.
Colton is one of the best streets in White Oaks - it is only 1 block long so you get little or no through traffic. It is […]
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