There's a lot of talk about the "shadow foreclosure inventory" across the country - homes that are in the pipeline for a foreclosure or have been foreclosed by the bank, but not released or listed on the real estate market and are not part of the existing inventory.
On December ...
I was fortunate to attend the National Association of Realtor's (NAR) convention earlier this month in San Diego. More than 20,000 US real estate agents and over 1,000 international Realtors were in attendance. It's always an exciting experience to meet agents from around the nation and ...
Well, I've written about the lack of photos in our Multiple Listing Service and vented about this issue long enough here and on my other real estate blog - PasadenaViews. Now, I wish I could say that someone has listened at our real estate board, but that's not the ...
Pasadena California is the place to be! I get phone calls constantly from home buyers saying that they want to live in Pasadena. Pasadena California is wonderfully located. It's close to the beach and it's close to the mountains. Pasadena is minutes from downtown LA. Pasadena is a ...
If I was a home seller and this was my house, I'd be pretty unhappy with my real estate agent. I don't know about you, but it pains me to look at this home listing's photo. This is the only home photo that is in the Multiple ...
I've been posting monthly
real estate market report updates on this site for cities around Pasadena.
One of the key real estate indicators that I refer to is the Market
Action Index or MAI.
What is the Market Action Index ? And, why does the
Market Action Indicator matter?
Residential ...
This week, I was privileged to attend a presentation by Leslie Appleton-Young. Leslie is the Vice President of California Association of Realtors and their Chief Economist.
I have never heard Leslie speak before and was surprised with her vibrant personality and down to earth style. it's always hard to ...
By Brian Brady
Remember when I talked about the whipsaw effect, yesterday? Rates with no lender compensation to the broker, called "par" rates in the industry *, are 5.875% now. That's .375% higher than the 5.5% I reported yesterday.
Will Pasadena mortgage rates come back down?
Maybe. They ...
Over the last couple of days we loooked at a Formula for Selling your Pasadena Home in 30 days or less. It all comes down to getting your home ready for sale, pricing your Pasadena home correctly and marketing exposure.
In my second post in the Selling Your Home series ...
In the previous post, Sell Your Pasadena Home in 30 Days or Less, we discussed the basic formula for selling your home. There are three parts to your selling success:
Today ...
