Categories for Realestate Market

If You’re Waiting For The Market To Cash Before You Buy, It Will Be A Long Wait…

There are many reasons for the market to remain calm and somewhat steady, with the normal cooling trend in both sales volume and prices taking effect currently. Numbers just reported show the cooling trend has been underway for the past...
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What Were The Actual Numbers?

The total number of sales for the month of April (the last complete month available) was 2,967. This number is off 8% from April of 2018. The median price rose 2.8%, but only because of new homes, which rose 9.3%...
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Two Recent Headlines Should Be Of Interest To All Millennials…

Sunday March 17th, Jonathan Lansner wrote, “Rents Still Rising in Los Angeles, Orange Counties”, according to the Consumer Price Index, try 5.9%. This is way above inflation, and renters…you’re paying more for rent than owners are getting in appreciation. That...
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States Ownership Rate Hits An 8 Year High… or SoCal Sales Plummet To 11 Year Low…?

Are you an optimist or pessimist or realist? How you view things may decide which headline you believe is the most telling of things to come for the SoCal real estate marketplace. CoreLogic released final figures for January and that...
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Millennials May Be Tempted To Rent, But According To Millionaire, David Bach- Dont…

Millionaire David Bach has a message for Millennials, don’t wait to buy. It is nearly impossible to build retirement and personal wealth without home ownership. For example, if one rents a 2 bedroom apartment for the approximate average rate of...
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Is The Market As Soft As The Newspapers Are Telling You It Is?

Like the answer to most questions of this nature, the answer is, well, yes and no. According to the most recent numbers for the last 30 days, which includes the end of December and the first 10 days of January,...
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If You’re Over 55, Take Advantage Of Prop 60/90

Did you know that you are allowed to transfer your tax basis one time only to a retirement home of lesser value, (if you close escrow on your primary home first, you may go within 5% over the sales price)?...
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Real Estate Trends For 2019 And What Does It Mean For You?

1) The county wide sales for November of 2,890 was down 7%. Expect this trend to continue. 2) New Homes sold 408, down 2.4%, indicating housing starts could stall. 3) Existing single-family resale was 1,695 for November 2018,...
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What To Expect This Coming Year In Real Estate…

This is not the newsletter that will tell you to expect another year of the same old, same old. In fact, changes are a-brewing. We already saw last year start to taper off in sales, some of the slow down...
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So Why Buy A Home If Prices Are So High?

So why buy a home if prices are so high? Let’s do the best reason first, that you may not even know about…People that own homes, by retirement, on average, have 44 times the net worth wealth, than people who...
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