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
I received a call from a Homeowner today who owns a property that is located in Irvine, California. The Homeowner was frantic because there is a foreclosure sale scheduled to occur on their property within the next month and like many other homeowners across the country they have been turned down for a loan modification [...]
Categories Foreclosure, Home Selling Tips, Real Estate, Sellers, Short Sale
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
November 22, 2011
As of today, 37% of all properties that are listed for sale on the MLS for the Orange County California Real Estate market are short sales or bank owned…this is more than 1/3! Many people believe that a bankruptcy is the answer to a foreclosure, but it really matters what question you are asking. Federal Bankruptcy Judges do [...]
Categories Foreclosure, Real Estate, Sellers
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
November 21, 2011
A deed in lieu of foreclosure is where a homeowner who has defaulted on their home mortgage simply gives the property back to their lender making is so the lender does not have to go through the foreclosure process. This is also known as “Jingle Mail” which is referring to the bank getting keys to [...]
Categories Uncategorized
Posted by: Brett Matsuura
November 20, 2011
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