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Granada Hills, CA Real Estate News

By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
With low home prices and ultra-low interest rates, the housing market is offering "perhaps the best deals of a generation," notes a recent article by Bloomberg Businessweek.   Since the housing boom of 2006, home prices have fallen about 31 percent. Also, mortgage rates have been hovering at record lows for the past few weeks (4 percent range or even lower on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, according to Freddie Mac's mortgage market survey).   "It's hard to see the possibility of losing on a home purchase right now, with these mortgage rates," says economist Dean Baker. "Prices may go lower, but not by much."   The article notes the following scenario: Buying a $300,000 home with a 4 percent mortgage rate and a 20 percent down payment would mean a $1,145 monthly payment. The Mortgage Bank...
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By Esperanza Butler® 818 926 5425, Homes For Sale in West Hills, Ca (818) 926-5425
(Your Home Sold Guaranteed Realty)
 Granada Hills-Neighborhood Boundary Map Granada Hills is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California. It is located just north of the North Hills and Northridge districts, west of the Mission Hills and Sylmar districts, and just east of the Porter Ranch district. It is accessible by the Ronald Reagan (SR 118), San Diego (Interstate 405), and Golden State (Interstate 5) Freeways. Major thoroughfares include Balboa Boulevard, Woodley, Hayvenhurst, and Haskell Avenues, as well as Rinaldi Street, San Fernando Mission Boulevard, Chatsworth Street, and Devonshire Street.    Click the plus+  or  the  minus-  to zoom in or out  and see the neighborhood boundaries  View Granada Hills (GH) in a larger map Neighborhood Boundary Maps Community Boundaries:  W...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend you'll find them everywhere. Zig Ziglar  
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By Simon Mills
(Mills Realty)
Granada Hills Short Sale Are you behind on your mortgage payments and have already tapped your credit cards, friends and family? Getting out from the weight on your shoulders can seem impossible, but moving on is exactly what you are going to need to do. If you are considering a short sale then call Simon Mills of Mills Realty who will guide you through your Granada Hills Short Sale. Mills Realty will show you how you can relieve yourself from the debt of your home without any out of pocket expenses. Your lender will pay our fees, so our program will truly cost you nothing out of pocket. It makes no difference who your lender is or how many loans you have on your property Simon Mills of Mills Realty will guide you through your Granada Hills Short Sale. Our goal is to make the process as...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
You are brave...when you overcome your fear and help others to do the same.  You are happy...when you see a flower and are thankful for the blessing.  You are loving...when your own pain does not blind you to the pain of others.  You are wise...when you know the limits of your wisdom.  You are true...when you admit there are times you fool yourself.  You are alive...when tomorrow's hope means more to you than yesterday's mistake.  You are growing...when you know what you are but not what you will become.  You are free...when you are in control of yourself and do not wish to control others.  You are honorable...when you find your honor is to honor others. You are generous...when you can take as sweetly as you can give.  You are humble...when you do not know how humble you are.  You are m...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. Socrates 399 BC-469 BC  
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.    Abraham Lincoln
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
I WISH ALL MOTHERS A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY  
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
In Real Estate Your Approach, Your Abilitiy and Your Willigness To Do The Work of Real Estate Sales Will Be The Greatest Determining Factors For Your Success        
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
Freddie Mac forecasts a 5% increase in 2011 home sales over 2010, according to its U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for April.  The report also contends that refinancing will likely account for a smaller share of loan applications later this year as wealthy borrowers decrease and mortgage rates increase. Expect to see a bit of spring in homes sales activity during the second quarter, said Frank Nothaft, VP and chief economist at McLean, Virginia-based Freddie Mac.  Nothaft continued, Sales contract signings for existing homes were up in February, positioning the market for a bounce up going into the traditional home-buying season.  The expected pick-up in home sales is due to recent positive employment reports, the Market Outlook reveals. Unemployment declined for the fourth str...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
Housing affordability is a big part of the housing picture.  When it is cheaper to rent, then people tend to rent more.  When rents start to climb, it is a precursor to stronger demand for housing.The vacancy rate for U.S. apartments posted a steep decline in the first quarter and rents crept higher as the job market improves. The quarterly vacancy report showed the vacancy rate dropped to 6.2 percent in the first three months of the year, down from 6.6 percent in the fourth quarter. It was the steepest fall since the commercial real estate research firm began tracking the market in 1999.  New York had the nation's lowest vacancy rate, 2.8 percent, and its highest average rental, $2,794 a month. At the opposite end of the spectrum, Memphis, Tennessee had the nation's highest vacancy rat...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
Share This California has expanded the pool of borrowers who could qualify for three programs aimed at helping families at risk of losing their homes, by making those who tapped their home equity or who took out loans after Jan. 1, 2009, eligible for assistance. The California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) is administering nearly $2 billion in federal "Hardest Hit" funds, a $4.1 billion program targeted at states with high foreclosure rates or unemployment. CalHFA is using the Hardest Hit fund to provide four "Keep Your Home California" programs. More than 2,000 homeowners are in the process of receiving help since the programs launched in February, CalHFA said in announcing expanded eligibility requirements for three of those programs. With the U.S. Treasury signing off on the chang...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
Taking a closer look at the realities of all the government foreclosure prevention programs sheds light on how off the mark they have been. For the record, at the time ALL of these programs were celebrated as a possible solution to the housing crash. Sure, in hindsight its all too easy to be cynical about the Obama Administrations various programs, acts, guidelines...not to mention the literally dozens of new acronyms we have all had to learn. (HAMP, HAFA, PRA, HARP etc etc) Here are the hard facts from the NYT and Corelogic: Congress set aside $50 billion for foreclosure prevention, amid administration projections that three million to four million homeowners would benefit from modifications. So far, the Treasury Department, which oversees the program, has spent slightly more than $1 b...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
Home prices have fallen below fundamental values in more than half of U.S. states, overcorrecting from bubbles in some markets and dragged down by the recession in others. According to the PMI Group monthly analysis,  States where house prices are too low, although they had no bubble Indiana  is a good illustration of a surprising pattern seen for areas where prices tracked incomes quite closely even during the housing bubble, but then still got hit by declining house prices as a result of the Great Recession. Other states with similar patterns include Arkansas, Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. It is likely that house prices in these areas will recover along with job growth, which is already happening in manufacturing and a...
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.   Saint Francis of Assisi        
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.   James Allen  
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.  Andrew Carnegie  
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
"Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn't. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change...but change happens in a heartbeat!"  Andrew Carnegie      
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By Alberto Pacheco, Experience and Trust
(Home Smart Evergreen Realty)
  Daylight Savings Start on 03/13/2011 at 2:00 AM Before you go to bed tonight make sure you adjust your watch and clocks One Hour Ahead We Will Be Missing One Hour of Sleep. DO NOT FORGET GOD BLESS YOU ALL      
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