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Locally the coming of early summer will take a small toll on real estate. People will be re-directing their attention to vacation spots, which I suspect will be minutes from home rather than days or weeks. The Ventura County beach area will be crowded this year. We are lucky in Ventura County b...
05/18/2008
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05/15/2008
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50% of the kitchen counter top is covered with STUFF! The buyer sees this and is turned OFF! The bathroom counters is loaded with "stuff" and the buyer sees this? TURN OFF! What to do? If you can "box" it! Eventually everything will have to be boxed so do it now. If you cannot "box" it, put...
05/13/2008
Do a clean bill of health. Do the minor things before listing your home and benefit. Those things are: CLEAN; POLISH; REPAIR; and INSPECT. Not necessarily in that order but do it. And yes it may take some muscle. Under the heading of clean is de-clutter both inside and outside the home. Remo...
05/12/2008
It is continuing. Ventura County is getting closer to a normal market. The Ventura County real estate market continues to build a base. This will be an on-going activity for the next 2-3 months before signs of an up swing become evident. One can expect some hiccups before this occurs but the o...
05/11/2008
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It is starting to become crunch time and you will be hearing a lot of jaw boning.Approximately 65% of the banks have positioned themselves to minimize approving refinancing or new home loans according to a recent poll.Things are difficult now but will get a lot worse before things get better.Read...
05/05/2008
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However it does appears that $ 550,000 is the baseline. In other words the lows of the market have been set, basing is now occurring and within the next 4-6 months prices should be on the upside.Why do I think the base has been set? Simply because the list to actual sales price variance in 1999...
05/05/2008
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The overall Ventura County real estate market continues its basing. As noted in the chart below listings continue to decrease, sales are increasing, the variance between list price and sales price has normalize. Days on the market for sold homes is still high but this too is showing signs of d...
05/04/2008
UP, UP and UP! UP is in. Ventura County real estate continues to strengthen. Over the last week listing decreased; sales increased; the number of days sold homes were on the market, decreased.Single family home sales have increased from an average of 329 homes per week in January to 549 homes so...
04/27/2008
Size Matters. Over the last few weeks we have witnessed the extra steps the Federal Reserve has undertaken to firm up the real estate market and other financial institutions.I can understand coming to the defense of Bear Sterns and its subsequent purchase by JPMorgan.The financial markets could n...
04/07/2008