April 2022 General Market Update
Friday, April 29
General Market Update There is a lot of negative news out there about real estate. Yes, interest rates are moving up. Yes, prices are going up. Yes, there are typically multiple offers over asking price on homes. AND people are still buying and selling real estate every single day. You can view o...
The Three Main Benefits to Owner Financing a Property for a Seller
Thursday, April 14
The Three Main Benefits to Owner Financing a Property for a Seller Did you know that you do not need to go to a bank and get a loan to buy a property? There is a way where you can purchase a property and the owner can act as the bank. This is called owner financing. It can also be called seller f...
Real Estate News March 2022
Tuesday, March 22
What is going on with the housing supply? What is going on with the supply of homes on the market? Why is it so low and why are prices climbing steadily? Take a look at the graph below showing the construction of new single family housing over the last 5 decades. You can see that the number of ho...
Real Estate Prices - When Will They Drop?
Wednesday, November 03
Is the real estate market going to crash? If you look at the past 60 years of real estate data, you will see that there has only been one major real estate price correction. This took place in the 2008 recession. The grey bars on the infographic below show periods of economic recession whereas t...
Will We Have a Wave of Foreclosures?
Wednesday, July 28
You may hear some people say that they are going to wait till the wave of foreclosures floods the market before investing in real estate. If this is your mindset, you may want to take a look at some of the data before waiting too long. The reality is, there simply are not a lot of people being f...
California Property Taxes and Prop 19 - Time for Seniors to Get Movin'
Tuesday, April 27
Prop 19 - Time for Seniors to Get Movin’California property taxes are being changed once again. Here is a brief overview of California's property tax history. Due to California's Proposition 13, property taxes for real estate are fixed at 1% of the purchase price of real estate with annual hikes ...