The Wilshire Corridor is a unique market. The average price of a condo is $1.1 Million and the turnover at that price is not large, as you can imagine. Let’s see how the market performed over the last Quarter: Building Sold +/ Price/ Median Price Avg. Price Per Sq. Ft.++ Total Active Price/ Median Price […]
How is the Wilshire Corridor Condo Market? 3rd Quarter 2014 Read More »
Are you a Los Angeles homeowner considering putting their home on the market? Have you been thinking about the possibility for quite a while? Was the situation was not right, or were you waiting out the market? If the latter is true, and coincidentally any barriers to selling have been removed, now is a great
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As a Chicago-area Mortgage Lender, I’ve always been asked a lot of questions regarding Taxes and Property Assessments. Property Taxes, and subsequently monthly tax escrow contributions, play a very important role in loan approvals/denials. But throughout the recent housing downturn, the topic of property taxes and assessments has cropped-up more often and has become far
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If you are in the process of buying a home in Los Angeles and come across a listing on my website you are actually looking at a feed from the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) provided by the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) to which I am subscribed. I am probably not the listing agent. I often
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If you are thinking of selling your Los Angeles home you are going to be in one of the following situations: Looking to move up or downsize. Changing school districts Moving to a new city In any event, if you are selling your home you are going to have to live somewhere, and if you
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O.K., I admit it. I am a Realtor® who does not own property. Had I started in this business earlier then I probably would have realized that one of the best investments you can make in your life is to buy real estate. I did own for a short period around 20 years ago, but
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Should I Pray or Should I Co? I tend to see a fair amount of high loan-to-value mortgage scenarios, mostly because real estate values here in Marin County, the San Francisco Bay Area and coastal California, in general, tend to be high. And I think it also has a lot to do with the formidable task
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A large percentage of the potential home-buyers I speak to have a basic knowledge of how credit scores influence the interest rate received when they finance their home purchase. Most understand the basic principal: The higher their credit scores, the lower their interest rate. I read a CNBC article today entitled, “How poor credit costs
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If you are thinking of buying or renting a condo on the Wilshire Corridor there are some facts to consider. Also known as The Golden Mile, the Corridor is an approximately 2-mile stretch of luxury high-rise condominium buildings which runs from just east of Westwood Village to the west side of the Los Angeles Country
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I wrote recently about Fannie Mae’s announcement regarding the extension of the waiting period for those Buyers hoping to become Homeowners once again after having experienced a Short Sales (Pre-Foreclosures). The waiting period is now extended out to 4 years … regardless of Loan-to-Value considerations (or Down Payment percentages). Naturally, there’s been a wide range
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