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California’s “Dream For All” Down Payment Assistance Program Returning with Lottery
California’s wildly popular shared-appreciation down payment assistance program for first time homebuyers is being relaunched this year with a reduced budget of $250 million but an improved distribution plan. Last year $300 million was gobbled up in just 11 days in a first-come, first-serve system that made it difficult for first-time buyers to incorporate the […] Read More
THE SCOOP ON SELLER-PAID RATE BUY-DOWNS
Higher rates combined with higher prices create a challenging market for buyers and sellers. Read More
WHY FALL AND WINTER 2023 MAY BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BUYERS
Inventory tends to increase in the fall as the buyer pool shrinks after the start of the school year. Read More
Why there is Opportunity in Today’s Real Estate Market
Beginning in the 1970’s, California’s cities have been implementing planning restrictions to slow urban sprawl and preserve the character of existing neighborhoods by restricting density. The unintended result has been a growing housing shortage, such that by 2018, California ranked 49th among the states of the U.S. in terms of housing units per resident. This […] Read More
First Quarter 2022 Real Estate Status Report
Inflation has soared to its highest rate in four decades. The Federal Reserve has responded by raising their overnight lending rate and indicating that they may do so at each of their seven meetings this year. Mortgage rates climbed the first quarter of this year from the low 3’s well into the 5’s. […] Read More
If You have Suffered Fire or Smoke Damage
To our clients and business partners: If you have suffered damage and/or loss due to the wildfires, we are terribly sorry and wish for you a hasty recovery. We have been contacted by several of you requesting information related to mortgages and the processing of insurance claims. We will not re-iterate the […] Read More
How Do Lenders Decide If You Are Qualified For A Loan?
Understanding Underwriting Mortgage lenders will evaluate your credit-worthiness by examining four general areas of your financial life. In years past you had to meet the necessary criteria in one or more of these areas, but not necessarily all, to qualify for a loan. Changes began to be made in mortgage underwriting in 2006 and continued […] Read More
5 Things That Divorcing Couples and Family Lawyers Need to Know about Home Mortgage Underwriting
Clearing up misconceptions and understanding just a few of the rules for underwriting home loans may help in drafting an agreement and planning more realistically for housing the future divorcee. Certainly one of the more important issues facing those crafting a separation or settlement agreement is where the parties are going to live. […] Read More
The New Real Estate World
NEW REAL ESTATE ENVIRONMENT COMING INTO FOCUS The look and feel of the American residential marketplace has been pretty consistent over the previous three-quarters of a century. Young people join the workforce and shortly thereafter seek to buy their first home. Renters save up to do the same. In a few years with growing families and/or improved […] Read More
Many Suburban Homes No Longer Safe From Wildfires
Many Suburban Neighborhoods No Longer Safe from Wildfires… And Why! Danger from California’s wildfires were thought to be restricted to individual homes and neighborhoods located in, or on the edges of, undeveloped land. Suburban tract homes located miles from brush or forest on a grid of streets and manicured lawns were thought to be burn-proof. […] Read More
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