This past November I thought that Southern California real estate market was going to see a stagnate year. However, in February 2012…I revised my position and said that the Southern California Real Estate market has a housing shortage and we will see the average home price increase. I just finished watching a news report from [...]
Categories Buyers, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
April 27, 2012
In September 2011 I blogged about the top 5 reasons to short sale your property. One of the reasons I gave as a benefit to short sale is that you would be exempt from paying capital gains taxes on the forgiven debt (aka the “short” in a “short sale”). The legislation that makes this possible [...]
Categories Foreclosure, Real Estate, Sellers, Short Sale, Uncategorized
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
March 20, 2012
In a move to put HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) back into the black, HUD has announced that they are going to increase the premiums they charge borrows…in layman’s terms, the cost of borrowing money is going up. By design FHA loans have more liberal underwriting guidelines (in terms of credit, income ratios, max loan amount [...]
Categories Buyers, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Sellers, Southern California Real Estate
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
March 1, 2012
Open houses are generally synonymous with selling a home. However, this blog post raises the question “are open houses necessary and does the value of the open house out weight the risk?”. It is becoming more and more common (especially in today’s economy) where open houses are used for thieves to recon a property so [...]
Categories Buyers, Home Selling Tips, Real Estate, Sellers, Short Sale, Uncategorized
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
February 6, 2012
This blog post may prove to be very helpful to anyone who is looking to buy or sell real estate in Huntington Beach, CA. The following information is based on home sales from January 1, 2010 to January 31, 2012. HUNTINGTON BEACH HOME VALUES Let’s jump right into things…for most people the first thing they [...]
Categories Buyers, Huntington Beach, Real Estate, Sellers, Southern California Real Estate
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
February 4, 2012
If you are in the market to Buy or Sell real estate in the Southern California market then you may benefit from these small pieces of advice. My Advice to Buyers: 1- Making an offer 20% less than MARKET VALUE never works and you generally will offend the Seller. If you do this and you get [...]
Categories Buyers, Home Selling Tips, Real Estate, Sellers, Short Sale, Southern California Real Estate
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
January 30, 2012
Seeing how 41% of all of the home sales in the Southern California Real Estate I am sure there are many people wondering how long it will take, and what do they need to do in order to purchase their next home. How soon you will be able to buy, depends on the type of [...]
Categories Buyers, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Sellers, Short Sale
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
December 22, 2011
Sure, the economy isn’t doing so great…it’s getting better…but as we all know I am grading on the curve. Buyers who are worried about the future of their job or their finances shouldn’t buy. However, for those Buyer’s…and there are a lot of them, that have a good feeling of job security and their finances…then [...]
Categories Buyers, Mortgage Rates, Real Estate, Stats
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
December 8, 2011
According to the Obama Administrations October 2011 housing scorecard, there have been approximately 5.3 million loan modification arrangements started between April 2009 and the end of September 2011, and of the 5.3 million loan modification starts there have been 850,000 permanent modifications to date. Do the math…that is equal to a whopping 16% of all [...]
Categories Foreclosure, Protecting Tenants from Foreclosure, Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Stats
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
December 5, 2011
There is one irrefutable fact when it comes to buying or selling a house in Orange County, California and that is a Buyer wants to purchase a house for the least amount possible…and the opposite it true too…a Seller wants to sell the property for the highest amount possible. The truth of the matter is [...]
Categories Buyers, Real Estate, Southern California Real Estate, Stats
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
December 3, 2011
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