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Home Loans May Be Tilting Toward Fixed Rates
When local homeowners stand back and survey the Big Picture of how home loans are being applied for nationally, they are seeing a pretty predictable landscape. For the first week in August, the...
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The Coldwell Banker Brand Promise… this video does a great job of explaining why we do what we do. We don’t just help clients buy and sell homes, we help them build a more fulfilling life. Its a...
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Rise in Real Estate Prices Slows — and That’s Good News!
The future of real estate prices in town is always a matter of keen interest to area homeowners. So it’s important when the latest national numbers in the Case-Shiller Index show that the rate of rise...
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Why Using a Realtor in Town is the Popular Choice
As the economy continues to improve and more buyers commit to joining (or rejoining) the ranks of our area’s homeowners, access to reliable advice can be a vital difference-maker. If you’ve never...
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After All the Distractions, Christmas Season Brings Pause
This year, the first early signs of Christmas season didn’t seem to arrive too early, maybe because it rushed in so soon after Thanksgiving (which somehow also landed smack dab at the start of...
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2013 New Year’s Roundup Confirms Real Estate Trends
It’s time for this local real estate observer to tackle the New Year’s roundup of the Year in Real Estate (along with the traditional disclaimer that, since the actual statistics won’t be tallied until...
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Real Estate Values: The Outlook for 2014
If there is one question that homeowners and prospective shoppers have in common as we enter the New Year, it’s about the direction of local real estate values in 2014. Small wonder: the financial...
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Dan Walker – Free Home Buyer Seminar
First time buyers, move up buyers, empty nesters anyone interested in buying a home are invited to attend a Free Home Buyer seminar hosted by Coldwell Banker Town & Country and Wells Fargo Home...
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Home Loan Rate-Watchers Eye New Fed Leadership
On January 6, the Senate confirmed Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, making it the first time ever that a woman has led the nation’s most important financial institution....
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Homeowners Note Google’s Unexpected Gambit
Right at the start of the year, Google announced a surprising move. It said it was purchasing a home appliance maker most of us had never even heard of…for $3.2 billion in cash! It was a gambit that...
View ArticleU.S. Residential Sales Expectations Hit 8-Year High
Residential sales in the Inland Empire—in fact, all real estate dealings anywhere—remain the most local of commercial transactions. If your house is in San Francisco, a price spike in suburban Newark...
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Why Buyers Resist Those “For Sale by Owner” Signs
Let’s start out by agreeing that a “For Sale by Owner” sign on a fence does have a certain appeal. It summons up mental images of a simple, direct relationship: no middle man, just straight talk and...
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Inland Empire’s Best REALTOR® is One Who Knows What You’re After!
When you Google “seeking the best professional,” in about a half a second you are presented with 403 million candidates (not to play favorites- SearchEngineWise- when you ask Bing the same thing, it...
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Avoid Buying an Inland Empire Home at the Top of Your Price Range
At some point while weighing the pros and cons of buying a new home in town, you begin to mentally fix on a price range. If you are able to depend on a family income that’s fairly predictable, the...
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The Two Differing Situations for Comparables
There are two kinds of situations that homeowners looking at comparables run into: THE SIMPLE COMPS: Your home is part of an area that’s more uniform than not, in a neighborhood where there are a...
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Loans, Credit Scores—and “Invisible Ink” Safeguards
You may have wondered why there are credit repair companies out there, since the credit reporting agencies have to allow any consumer to dispute incorrect line items on their own. The big Credit...
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Homes for Sale Could Benefit from Brighter U.S. Outlook
Suppose you are a homeowner who intends to move to a different home eventually, but for the moment, you aren’t under any particular deadline pressure that would dictate when you have to put your home...
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Mortgage Rates Projected to Rise Sooner Rather than Later
Now that we are deep into July, with summer in full swing, there might be vague thoughts running through your mind about some potential real estate moves—but certainly not until the fall. Right now all...
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U.S. Housing Sales Prices Top Previous All-time High
For homeowners, the news was a long time coming. The bounce back from last decade’s dizzying plummet in the nation’s residential housing values has been underway for quite a while now—but those values...
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Real Estate Watchers Piece Together Week’s News
Last week was a head-swiveling version of a follow-the-dots puzzle for those who keep tabs national news related to real estate. Children like following the numbered dots to reveal a picture. You can’t...
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