Surprising Insider Secrets for the 5 Stages of Buying Your First Home
February 17, 2011
Buying a home is not a discrete event; it’s a process – a sequence of events that happens over time, sometimes over as long as several months or even years! While general guides to buying a home are a dime a dozen, I’vm excited to share with you some insider secrets you may not have heard elsewhere – one for each stage involved in buying a home. Here’s to helping you make the best decisions at every phase of your homebuying process!
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Get in while the Getting’s Good – Why Buyers and Sellers Should Take Advantage of Today’s Real Estate Market
February 17, 2011
The Case-Shiller Index is one of the country’s most popular ways of measuring the movement of home prices. And in its latest rating, which went out in late December, the verdict was: Prices are down. The Case-Shiller report’s 20-City Composite rating was 0.8% lower than it was one year previously; the first year-on-year decrease since October 2009.
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White Gold: Nevada County offers a White Christmas in Gold Country
December 9, 2010
You don’t have to be a ski bum to appreciate some snowy fun in the California hills. Nevada County has a veritable winter wonderland available for non-skiing snow-seekers, with diversions ranging from cutting your own Xmas tree to shopping for handcrafted artistic treasures.
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Nevada County bucks state real estate trend
November 20, 2010
Home sales and prices in western Nevada County bucked negative trends in the rest of the state in October.
California home sales in October fell nearly 21 percent from a year earlier and the median price also dipped, according to real estate tracking firm DataQuick.
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10% Jump in September Existing-Home Sales
October 25, 2010
Existing-home sales rose again in September, affirming that a sales recovery has begun, according to the National Association of REALTORS®.Existing-home sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums, and co-ops, rose 10 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.53 million in September from a downwardly revised 4.12 million in August, but remain 19.1 percent below the 5.60 million-unit pace in September 2009 when first-time buyers were ramping up in advance of the initial deadline for the tax credit last November.
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