http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:28:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en CalHFA this month said it received $5.4 billion in financing assistance through the Treasury Department's temporary financing program, which will allow it to re-start other programs in the first months of 2010. Mark and Kari Shea Real Estate Experts Serving San Diego County Specialists in Investment Properties, Foreclosures, Short Sales, Development Opportunities & Traditional ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=132 In a surprise decision, FHA waived the 90 day rule for FHA loan customers to be able to buy a flipped home.  Prior to this decision, FHA buyers were left out of the market for homes that have been rehabbed and put on the market. Best to you, Mark and Kari Shea Real ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=131 As the economy recovers, markets will stabilize but the old 'normal' will not return.  A new normal will prevail when the housing market recovers, according to a report released by the Urban Land Institute. Good reading, Mark and Kari Shea Real Estate Experts Serving San Diego County Specialists in Investment Properties, Foreclosures, Short ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=130 The sales numbers for April were released for San Diego County, here is what they showed: SFR - Sales up 12% over March (Feb to Mar had an 18% gain) Condo - Sales up 10% over March (Feb to Mar had an 18.3% gain) New - Sales down 12.8% over ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=129 This morning the Commerce Department released news that pending sales of existing homes rose for the third month in a row in April.  When you consider that the 6 months of pent up REO inventory has not hit the market, this is exceptional news. Best to you all, Mark and Kari ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=128 Many real estate agents today have an on-line presence.  One of the largest questions that remains for consumers is how to separate help from hype.  Here is a basic framework we have found to address this issue: Does the agent have a website? Does the website have useful information? Does the agent blog? If ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=127 The US Census Bureau released some statistics in the last week related to the trend of people moving.   Here is what it stated: The residential "mover rate" is the lowest ever since the Bureau started tracking the information in 1948. The number of people who changed residences dropped by 3.5 million from ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=126 The traditional Real Estate "brick & mortar" brokers (Prudential, Coldwell Banker, Remax, Keller Williams, etc) have been feeling the pain of the last two years.  With less agents and less business to support their large infrastructure, their balance sheets have taken a major hit. However, the number 1 reason for the ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=125 There is a lot of press in the last week about signs of recovery for the national real estate market.  On a local level in San Diego, the signs have been showing themselves for the last few months in a variety of ways:  Home prices declined 1% from February to March ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=124 The Real Estate Sales numbers were released for San Diego County for March 2009 today and they showed a solid improvement over the February numbers.  See below for details on trends from JAN to MAR 09: Sales of Single Family Residence JAN 09 = 1,563 FEB 09 = 1,573 =   0.6% Increase MAR 09 ... http://san-diego-real-estate-agents.com/?p=123