Seen in the latimes.com: The gig: Ed Kushins, 65, is the founder and president of HomeExchange.com, based in Hermosa Beach. It is one of the nation's largest members-only home exchange businesses. What is a home exchange? With 43,000 members, HomeExchange helps...
Month: May 2012
Real Leucadia
For the down-to-earth types who appreciate a big lot and don't mind working with the funky old house, this should be right up your alley:
San Diego Real Estate Report
The San Diego Monthly Report, authored by Rick Campbell, is in the right column >>>>>> Here is the latest version: Low inventory and high demand are pushing the real estate market in San Diego County off the bottom, slowly. Multiple offers on the...
Inventory Shortage!
The shortage of inventory during the prime selling season is astonishing - we haven't had a spring like this in recent history. Compare the new listings of detached homes in the North SD County Coastal area (Carlsbad to La Jolla) that hit the MLS between April 1st and...
Curb Appeal & Staging
Unfortunately for truth-seekers and transparency buffs, the real estate business is full of fluff. Sellers will believe anything that makes it sound like they will get more money for their house - they are literally blinded by greed. Realtors are happy to feed those...
CV’s One Paseo Comments
http://www.delmartimes.net/2012/05/07/carmel-valley-residents-voice-opinions-on-pros-and-cons-of-one-paseo-project/ The Carmel Valley Community Planning Board’s regional issues subcommittee tackled the One Paseo draft Environmental Impact Report at its May 2 meeting....
Near Santaluz
The last video we saw over here (in Santa Monica link) has not gone pending, so where is the market? There are multiple reasons to blame for not selling: 1. It's early in the season (it's not). 2. The right buyer hasn't come along (if they haven't by now, they...
Throwing Money At Underwaters
From cnbc.com: A select group of struggling mortgage borrowers are about to get an offer that sounds too good to be true. Executives at Bank of America say they will begin mailing 200,000 letters offering certain customers mortgage principal reduction. “If people get...
How Hot in CV?
New listings have been flying off the market around Carmel Valley, many with multiple offers. But it isn't universal, and those with defects are being scrutinized carefully. Everything wrong with this house is fixable - and while it is habitable in its current...
REO-to-Rental Details
An excerpt from MND: FHFA's REO-to-Rental Initiative, Burns said, is meant to complement the primary disposition strategies used by the GSEs and is intended as a pilot. Its goals are fairly limited: To gauge investor appetite for scattered site single-family rental...