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3 bedroom/2 bath properties are the most sought after home configuration in the Bay Area. In Fremont, there are nearly 145 listings of this home size, as of 9/11/10. Here is how it is distributed by price category. Data was pulled from Bay East MLS.      The majority of 3/2 listings in Fremont a...
09/12/2010
The API schores (Acamedic Performance Index) is a score on a scale of 200 to 1,000 that annually measures the academic performance and progress of schools in California. The State has set a score of 800 as the API score that schools should strive to achieve. The latest ratings are from the 2009 ...
09/11/2010
  The conduct of a buyer sometimes reflects on how much his Realtor® has counseled him. During the purchase process, when an offer has been accepted, it is natural for the buyer, especially a first time home buyer, to get excited about the property that will soon become the fulfillment of his Ame...
09/10/2010
A brief glance at the MLS listings will give us an idea of how long a listing is on the market until it considers an offer. This is called DOM, or Days on the Market. Typically, a listing is "off-market" when the status changes to Pending. Pending is when a buyer starts his loan process and cond...
09/10/2010
I have seen this scenario repeated many times over: A licensed real estate agent tags himself as a Realtor® just because he passed the DRE examination and met all the requirements towards obtaining a real estate license. There has been a lot of confusion as to who is a Realtor® and who is not. B...
09/10/2010
You are in the process of buying a home, and your loan officer or your Realtor® calls to tell you that the property you are buying is in a flood zone. As a result, your lender has added an underwriting condition that requires you to obtain flood insurance before giving final approval on your loa...
09/08/2010
It is always a disappointment when a home stays on the market for a long time with no buyers in sight. It is an even greater frustration when your listing expires after giving it several months. What went wrong? Why were requests for showings few? What could you have done to attract potential bu...
09/08/2010
If there's one thing I learned from the recent NAR technology seminar, it is this cool application called jing.exe. It was the one giveaway bonus Max Pigman threw in, as a suggested utility for easily taking screenshots and saving them as picture files. For those who are just encountering this f...
09/06/2010
My client is buying a condo in Hayward, CA. It is a ground floor unit on a 3-story building, which means there are two other units above it. I have explained to him, although he already had an idea, that with condos, you own everything that's inside the four walls of the unit, but not the land w...
09/05/2010
Many ex-homeowners who have lost their homes to foreclosure are waiting on the sideline, pondering on when they can get another chance at homeownership. The loss of their homes may have been due to some hardship that is now behind them, or is a result of a strategic default that they have taken ...
09/04/2010
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