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California Home Sale Price Medians by County and City Home Sales Recorded in August 2011 Reporting resale single family residences and condos as well as new  homes Excludes sales where the site city is unknown % Change is from the same month last year County/City/Area # Sold Aug 2011 Aug 2010 % Chng Yr-to-Yr Alameda [...]

1436 Hillsborough Blvd, Brentwood, CA   Expansive Single Story on 1/2 Acre! Share Listing 3BR/3BA Single Family House offered at $475,000 Year Built 2003 Sq Footage 2,864 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 3 full, Lot Size 20,037  ———————————————————————– OPEN HOUSE this Sunday, October 16th, from 1-4pm! Expansive Single Story on 1/2 Acre lot. Kitchen Features Double Oven, Eat-in [...]

As of July 1, 2011, the Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act (Senate Bill – SB 183) will require all single-family homes with an attached garage or a fossil fuel source to install carbon monoxide alarms within the home by July 1, 2011. Owners of multi-family leased or rental dwellings, such as apartment buildings, have until [...]

C.A.R. releases its 2012 Housing Market Forecast California home sales and median price are predicted to improve only slightly in 2012, as the continuation of the tepid economic recovery, uncertainty about the future, and funding challenges for residential mortgages are expected to keep the market moving sideways, with little foreseeable momentum in either direction, according [...]

If You’re thinking about buying a home but are waiting for a further decline in housing prices, consider this. Trying to time the bottom of any market is difficult. There’s another cost factor that often gets overlooked: interest rate costs, particularly over an extened period of time.

Normal’ Home Prices Are Stabilizing   RISMEDIA, July 29, 2011—Prices of “normal” homes—those that aren’t foreclosures or short sales—are stabilizing and the numbers of future foreclosures are falling. That “sliver of good news for consumer spending” was included in CoreLogic’s July report on housing and market trends. In May 2011, the firm’s Home Price Index [...]

July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 Give Your Children the Building Blocks to Home Ownership 7 Steps to a Solid Beginning By Elizabeth Rose, CMPS, Speaker, Coach and Trainer Owning a home is not only the American Dream, it is considered the strategic piece of a personal financial portfolio. [...]

RISMEDIA, July 26, 2011—(MCT)—Under a new state law, any lender who agrees to a short sale—which by definition will yield insufficient funds to cover the outstanding loans on a property—must accept it as payment in full for all loan balances. That is a good thing for upside-down homeowners who need to sell, says the California [...]

Take the Stress Out of Moving Moving can be very exciting…but it can also be a bit of a pain as well. Besides packing and unpacking, there is a long list of details to be handled. Things like choosing a mover, connecting utilities, getting Internet and cable service, or subscribing to newspapers or magazines in [...]

This home has a great view of the Lake. .2241 Sq. Ft. 4 bedrooms with a jr master suite.  Tile floors and great dock to BBq on. THIS IS A MUST SEE. Give me a call to view 925-726-9110