LA Real Estate Advice: Selling Frenzy As Homebuyer Credit Nears End
Westside LA Real Estate Advice: Real estate agents are working seven days a week, builders are staying open late and homebuyers are scrambling to get their offers in as they rush to take advantage of tax credits that expire at midnight Friday. To qualify, buyers must have a signed contract in hand by the deadline [...]
Malibu Home Sales Stayed Steady in 2009 While Prices Took a Tumble
PropertyShark.com has put together an interactive map that plots Malibu homes and condos sold in 2009. When you go to the site map — not to be confused with the screen grab shown here — click on a location for the sales price, sales date and links to additional property details. By PropertyShark’s count, 148 [...]
One Buyer’s Search to Find the Perfect Home-300 showings later
By JULIET CHUNG TIBURON, Calif. — Bay Area real estate has always demanded patience on the part of buyers. Many spend months scouring listings in hopes of finding “the one.” Then there is Lidia Pringle. The 58-year-old former reporter for United Press International became something of a legend in local real-estate circles for conducting one of [...]
Home Flipping on Foreclosures Makes a Comeback
By JAMES R. HAGERTY SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Four years after the collapse of the U.S. housing bubble, flipping homes is back in fashion. Jon Mirmelli, a Phoenix real-estate investor, learned late in the morning of Sept. 28 that a never-occupied custom house on the northern fringes of this Phoenix suburb was going up for auction [...]
One in Four Borrowers is Underwater
By RUTH SIMON and JAMES R. HAGERTY The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery. Nearly 10.7 million households had negative equity in their homes in the third quarter, according to First American CoreLogic, a [...]
Green Questions for Home Buyers – WSJ.com
Do you know the right GREEN questions to ask when you are about to buy a home in Malibu? Green Questions for Home Buyers – WSJ.com.
