Tag Archives: Buying a Home
Is more urban sprawl the solution to California’s housing crisis?
Source: Orange County Register In a state where vacant homes and apartments are scarce and where rents and house prices are out of control, state leaders and experts have proposed a host of solutions. Build more homes, build them in...
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Experts: Spring home-buying season starts off with a bang
But first-time buyers face headwinds from high prices Source: Housingwiring The spring home-buying season is in full swing and it started off with a bang. Home prices increased in February to a new high for the fourth consecutive...
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Bay Area residents contemplating Sacramento exodus
Source: SF Curbed San Francisco’s 2017 doom and gloom train continues with yet another site releasing a study this week showing that locals in California, particularly in the Bay Area, have developed a wandering eye for homes...
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Bidding $100,000 extra: buying a Southern California home is ‘insane’
Source: Los Angeles Times Jobs and wages are on the rise. Buyers are newly urgent, fearful an era of cheap money is ending. And to top it off, there simply aren’t enough homes listed for sale. As a result, bidding wars are common and prices...
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Talking Points
The share of homes selling above asking price rose from 34 percent a year ago to 39 percent in March, according to the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. Conversely, the share of properties selling below asking price dipped to 32...
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Renters Now Rule Half of U.S. Cities
Source: National Real Estate Investor Fifty-two of the 100 largest U.S. cities were majority renter in 2015, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Since 2009, 21 cities had shifted to renter-rule. Renters now dominate in both hot housing...
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