El Dorado Hills Real Estate Market - A Look at Inventory Levels Inventory levels are the reason our home prices in El Dorado Hills Real Estate Market and across the country are on the rise.  Inventory levels help us define a buyer's market from a seller's market but it is important to keep in mind that price ranges can make a big difference.  Neutral Market  = 6 months of inventory Buyer's Market = 6 months or more of inventory Seller's Market = 6 months or less of inventory The following graphs will show you what the El Dorado Hills inventory levels have looked like over the last 15 months, including bank owned or foreclosures, short sales, and regular sales..  They are based on closed sales in comparison to the number of homes for sale.  To calculate it on your own, divide the number ... 05/28/2013

BANK OWNED (FORECLOSURE/REO) HOME SALES DATA FOR El Dorado Hills, CA – FEBRUARY 2013 This is the latest monthly report of our more than five-year study of bank owned (foreclosure/REO) home sales in El Dorado Hills, CA.  This report covers February 2013. For the purposes of simplification, we will use the term foreclosure for all homes in this category from this point forward. If you would like to see all of the foreclosure homes available for sale in El Dorado Hills, select this link.  To view the available foreclosure homes you will have check the box marked “are REO/Bank Owned,” in the “Including the above criteria, only show me properties that:” section.  Then scroll down and check the “El dorado Hills Area” box on the left side of the page and finally select the Search Now (List Yo... 05/27/2013

New Brew Pub in El Dorado Hills - Mraz Brewing Company      Some of us in the real estate world have had the pleasure to sample owner Mike Mraz's wonderful home brews the last few years at the annual Grape Escape Event put on by Women's Council of Realtors but now we can all enjoy it!  Mraz Brewing Company is open for business in El Dorado Hills at the corner of Francisco Drive and Green Valley Road - 2222 Francisco Drive, Suite 510 to be exact.   Tap Room Hours:   Closed Monday and Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday: 3-10PM Friday: 3PM-11PM Saturday: Noon-11PM Sunday: Noon-6PM              Justin, Mike, and Jessica Mraz                        There's a great selection of beers but no set line up as their goal is to always be brewing something new and fresh!  Here's what was on tap yesterda... 05/20/2013

  El Dorado Hills Senior Center Has Quite the Schedule! The El Dorado Hills Senior Center Has Quite the Schedule! There are lots of great programs offered through the El Dorado Hills CSD. The Senior Center (maintained by El Dorado County) is at 990 Lassen Lane on the corner of Lassen Lane and El Dorado Hills Blvd and provides recreational programming and activities year-round for adults age 50 and up.  Weekly programs include:                                Morning Fitness Classes                                          Painting Pals Fun Bingo Knit and Crochet Bridge Practice/Lessons Pinochle/Canasta Mexican Train Dominoes Line Dancing Guitar Jam       Monthly activities include: Movie of the Month               Computer User Group Caregiver Support Group Senior Attorney Appointments F... 05/18/2013

El Dorado Hills Community Cleanup Day - June 1, 2013 If you missed Lyon Real Estate's eWaste drive or wasn't so successful getting rid of it at your recent neighborhood garage sale and still have large/bulky, e-waste, or just plain unwanted items here is an opportunity for residents - The El Dorado Hills Community Cleanup Day! When:  Saturday, June 1st, 9AM-3PM Who:  El Dorado Hills residents and residents within the El Dorado Hills Community Services District boundaries Where:  VPD at 4250 Town Center Blvd. West Cost:  Free to residents but donations are appreciated and benefit the CSD’s Community Supporting Youth Scholarship program. Below are some examples of acceptable and non acceptable items.  For the full list visit the El Dorado Hills CSD's page on the event.                    ... 05/18/2013

Parent's Night Off? If you haven't checked out the El Dorado Hills CSD and what they have to offer in the Recreation Guide, you're missing out.  When our kids were little, my husband and I would have loved the opportunity for a Parent's Night Off!  We lived in the Seattle area and didn't have the luxury of any family close by so would get a babysitter from time to time for a few hours but never the whole night.  The El Dorado Hills CSD has two sleep over's  planned for kids ages 6-12 this summer.  June 28th -29th August 2nd-3rd  Times:  6:30 PM on Friday night through 9AM on Saturday morning Cost: $35 - includes dinner, admission to the pool, snacks, and a light breakfast. Location CSD Gym     Register though the El Dorado Hills CSD. Online - 24 hrs. a day at www.edhcsd.org Walk-in Regi... 05/17/2013

Highland View Annual Community Garage Sale The Highland View neighorhood will be having their Annual Community Garage Sale this Saturday, May 18th.   Time:  8:00AM to 2:00PM              Directions:  From Highway 50 heading east, take the El Dorado Hills exit and head north.  Turn right on Harvard and then left onto Silva Valley Road.  At the next stop sign turn right onto Appian.  Follow Appian up the hill and you will enter the neighborhood.   Along with our garage sale we currently have four homes for sale in the neighborhood ranging in size from 3371 to 4003 square feet and priced between $673K and $789K.  Call or email me for information.         _________________________________________ I am a REALTOR® in El Dorado Hills with Lyon Real Estate. I love living in El Dorado Hills, whe... 05/14/2013

El Dorado Hills' Town Center Farmers Market 2013   El Dorado Hills Town Center Farmers Market is set for every Sunday morning starting May 19th and will run through October 27th this year. If you haven't been it is a great time to get out and support our local growers and businesses and at the same time get your fresh products at the same time.  You never know what you'll find there but more than likely it will be worth it!  Where:  Town Center Blvd. Time:  8am - 1pm If you have more time to spend there stop in at our local bookstore - Face In A Book or have lunch at one of the nearby restaurants  like  Bistro 33 or Mama Ann's or stroll up over the bridge to Sellands or one of the many restaurants at the end of Town Center Blvd. in the Theater Plaza.  Town Center has lots of wonderful l... 05/14/2013

What's Selling in El Dorado Hills - April Real Estate is selling like hotcakes in El Dorado Hills again!  Here is the lowest and highest priced sale along with some statistics for April of What's Selling in El Dorado Hills.   Lowest Home Sale for the Month of April     The lowest priced home sold in last month was this bank owned (foreclosure) on Bonita Court which is on the north end of El Dorado Hills.  It is a geometric dome that was built in 1980 on .29 acres with 2-3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and approximately 1921 square feet. It needed a lot of work and with a typical bank owned home they will make no repairs.     It was listed for $219,000 but sold for $210,000 (average square foot price of $109.32).           Highest Home Sale for the Month of April    The highest priced home sold... 05/13/2013

El Dorado Hills' Friday Night Concerts in the Park -2013 The Summer 2013 El Dorado Hills CSD Recreation/Activity Guide is out and along with it the schedule for El Dorado Hills' Friday Night Concerts in the Park.  If you haven't been, it's a fabulous family event.  And the best part is that it is sponsored by local businesses so free for residents! Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, picnics.         _________________________________________ I am a REALTOR® in El Dorado Hills with Lyon Real Estate. I love living in El Dorado Hills, where homes with views have become my passion. Working with both buyers and sellers, my concentration on homes for sale includes not only El Dorado Hills, but also Folsom and the Cameron Park vicinity. For more information on me or our wonderful area visit my w... 05/01/2013

   *We have an agent on floor daily 9am-to 5:30pm to answer calls or help walk-ins.  *Our agents are members of the National Association of Realtors and are bound by a standard Code of Ethics.    *We are trained regularly in all aspects of real estate in order to better serve our clients.  *As a company we are part of Leading RE Companies of the World.  *Our agents are involved in the community - and it shows!     _________________________________________ I am a REALTOR® in El Dorado Hills with Lyon Real Estate. I love living in El Dorado Hills, where homes with views have become my passion. Working with both buyers and sellers, my concentration on homes for sale includes not only El Dorado Hills, but also Folsom and the Cameron Park vicinity. For more information on me or our wonderful... 04/23/2013

Need a pool?  While the FHA 203K loan program is for renovation of existing properties in conjunction with the refinance or purchase, most of you may know that the restriction on luxury item repair is $1500. Is not a whole lot of new tools you could install for $1500 and to be sure you would try you cannot add a swimming pool with an FHA 203K. So what we do when the only thing that's wrong with the house were trying to sell is that it has no swimming pool? This would be a Homestyle loan offered by Fannie Mae via Prospect mortgage. Prospect Mortgage Company is not the only place you can get this but in my opinion it's one of the best places to get this loan product. They know how to close the Fannie Mae Homestyle loan as they are the largest lender of this product in the nation. We had a... 04/20/2013

Spaghetti Feed Benefitting Local Youth - Big Brothers Big Sisters The Hands 4 Hope Youth Board is sponsoring a Spaghetti Feed this Friday - April 12th in El Dorado Hills to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Dorado County. For more information on the event or to buy tickets online visit the Hands 4 Hope web site.   Tickets will also be available at the door! Changing lives, one child at a time!           _________________________________________ I am a REALTOR® in El Dorado Hills with Lyon Real Estate. I love living in El Dorado Hills, where homes with views have become my passion. Working with both buyers and sellers, my concentration on homes for sale includes not only El Dorado Hills, but also Folsom and the Cameron Park vicinity. For more information on me or our wonderful area ... 04/08/2013

Support Buckeye Union School District - 4th Annual Toast to Education - Buckeye Education Foundation  Quality schools promote higher property values and a better quality of living for our community.  We are fortunate here in El Dorado Hills for our quality schools. Help support Buckeye Education Foundation at their 4th Annual Toast to Education Event - Saturday April 27th. The Foundation's goal this year is to maintain every program in the district, keep current class sizes, and improve educational opportunities for all children in the district.             _________________________________________ I am a REALTOR® in El Dorado Hills with Lyon Real Estate. I love living in El Dorado Hills, where homes with views have become my passion. Working with both buyers and sellers, my concentrati... 04/05/2013

What's Selling in El Dorado Hills   There are lots of homes selling in El Dorado Hills these days.  And in March there were 78 to be exact!  Here is the high and low along with some statistics on the 78 home sales.     The Lowest Selling Home in El Dorado Hills last month was 3574 Rolph Way in the Ridgeview area.  It had 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1912 square feet, was built on .27 acres in 1976 and sold for $205,000.  It was only on the market 1 day when it went pending on December 27, 2011 but it was a short sale and crazy as it seems took till 3/31/2013 to close. On average short sales take 4-6 months to close but then there are these...... 459 days or 15+ months.  Buyers like these know what the word patience means!     The Highest Selling Home in El Dorado Hills was this single story - 5... 04/04/2013

Folsom Lake views 3009 Capetanios Drive, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 View Map APARTMENT/Guest home. Private luxury on lower level is: 1500 sq ft 2 bed 2 ba, granite gourmet kitchen, family rm, fireplace & laundry room. Use this lower level as guest quarters, home for extended family or future pool house. Main home has Sierra snow cap and Folsom Lake views from everywhere. One of the best lots in gated, exclusive Kalithea w/natural rock outcroppings & majestic oaks. Superb lot for future pool & spa. Best value in Kalithea. 6 fireplaces and 2 potential master suites. Wow!For your personal appointment:Robert MilwardIntero Real Estate Services (916) 481-7653   Details Asking Price: $975,000 MLS: 13011106 Sq. Feet: 4895 Lot Size: 0.695 Bedrooms: 6 Bathrooms: 5.5 # of Floors: 3 HOA/Maintenance... 03/17/2013

BANK OWNED (FORECLOSURE/REO) HOME SALES DATA FOR El Dorado Hills, CA – JANUARY 2013   This is the latest monthly report of our more than five-year study of bank owned (foreclosure/REO) home sales in El Dorado Hills, CA.  This report covers January 2013. For the purposes of simplification, we will use the term foreclosure for all homes in this category from this point forward.   If you would like to see all of the foreclosure homes available for sale in El Dorado Hills, select this link.  To view the available foreclosure homes you will have check the box marked “are REO/Bank Owned,” in the “Including the above criteria, only show me properties that:” section.  Then scroll down and check the “El dorado Hills Area” box on the left side of the page and finally select the Search Now (List Y... 02/28/2013

      _________________________________________ I am a REALTOR® in El Dorado Hills with Lyon Real Estate. I love living in El Dorado Hills, where homes with views have become my passion. Working with both buyers and sellers, my concentration on homes for sale includes not only El Dorado Hills, but also Folsom and the Cameron Park vicinity. For more information on me or our wonderful area visit my website at www.DeeDeeRiley.com or email me at driley@golyon.com. When you're ready to sell or buy a home – I would love to help! To read what my clients have to say about me and my service, visit my Client Testimonial page.   If you like what you're seeing here please come back or better yet...... Subscribe to My Blog by Email!       By DeeDee Riley 2013 *All Rights Reserved*One Fine Day in El ... 02/27/2013

  El Dorado Hills - Neighborhoods In the early 60's when the first developers envisioned living in El Dorado Hills, they pictured a concept of independent master planned villages, with each having it's own identity and amenities. Though the community has grown over the last 50 years, the village concept has carried through and El Dorado Hills neighborhoods are unique and charming to say the least! Living in El Dorado Hills you'll find neighborhoods stretching from Promontory on the western border of El Dorado County, to Southpointe to the north (sounds funny but it gets it's name in relation to Folsom Lake and the South Fork of the American River), Bass Lake Village to the east, and Blackstone to the south encompassing a total of 48.6 square miles. The map to the right is the 2010 Censu... 02/26/2013

Short Sales - Is Their Closing Time Getting Any Shorter?We have been dealing with short sales in El Dorado Hills since August 2008. Is their closing time getting any shorter? At first we got the excuse that the number of short sales and amount of paperwork was slowing down the time to close. Four and a half years later, I don't see that bank efficiency in getting these closed has changed nor has a standard process has been implemented. They continue to be a nightmare for all parties involved. All I can give my buyers or sellers are scenarios I have dealt with myself or heard from other agents.   To see if I was just imagining the worst, I decided to pull statistics for January sales in 2010, 2012, and 2013. Like Short Sales, there was no rhyme or reason why I skipped 2011, I just did. T... 02/23/2013