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El Dorado County Real Estate Market Update: June 2009

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:54:03 +0000

Nothing much has changed in the real estate landscape of El Dorado county from month to month; change is always slow in this part of California. A total of 176 homes sold in El Dorado county, a 5% overall unit volume increase year over year. 61 of these homes were foreclosure sales, 21 short sales [...]

Sacramento County Real Estate Market Update: June 2009

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:32:32 +0000

And the slowdown continues… But this might be for the better since prices are seeing some slightly better numbers since REOs have been down under a month’s supply of inventory. But let’s go into the details step by step. I’m jumping ahead of myself. 1852 homes sold in Sacramento county this month of which just 1000 [...]

Homebuyers: Five Mistakes that Could Cost You (Part 2)

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:17:35 +0000

Welcome back! This is continued from yesterday’s post of the biggest mistakes homebuyers make that could end up costing them money, time and unmentionable amounts of heartache. 3. Not Getting all Inspections Most often I notice that when investors are buying the property and it is bank-owned and the purchase price is paid all in cash [...]

Homebuyers: Five Mistakes that Could Cost You (Part 1)

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:14:10 +0000

From what I’m hearing and seeing out there, the majority of homebuyers looking for homes currently are either investors or first time homebuyers. A more diverse group of homebuyers couldn’t exist – these two are diametrically opposite to one another. Investors have probably previously bought homes and have also perhaps been through times like these [...]

Home Sellers: Five Fixes that Aren’t (Part 2)

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:10:16 +0000

To continue our previous discussion from July 3rd, here are the rest of the so-called quick fixes! Let’s get right into them! 3. Patching holes in the wall by hanging an art or mirror frame It seems odd that people would still do this, but I’ve seen it in a few homes. No matter that they are [...]

Home Sellers: Five Fixes that Aren’t (Part 1)

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:09:53 +0000

We’ve all seen them – the little snickers that come from the home staging shows when someone lifts a piece of carpet or leans against a supposedly solid wall and it falls or - in the case of the carpet - completely lifts it off like it was the skin of a cat. Even if [...]

Placer County Real Estate Market Update: May 2009

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:33:50 +0000

For the last day of this month, I thought we would take a look at our neighbors at Placer county and see how real estate sales there are faring. It’s much the same story as Sacramento from what I can tell. Foreclosure inventory seems to be drying up, but there are still short sales galore. [...]

North Highlands Real Estate Market Update: May 2009

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:32:56 +0000

Nothing much has changed in terms of inventory or prices in the real estate market in North Highlands and yet it seems like someone put the brakes on the sales. This might be a result of more short sales entering the market as compared with foreclosures. Whatever the reason, overall unit volume is down 40.4% [...]

Franklin - Freeport Real Estate Market Update: May 2009

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:06:10 +0000

Real estate sales have slowed somewhat in the Franklin / Freeport area from the breakneck speed they were moving at in the month of March when we last checked in but they are still going strong. 224 homes sold in the area this month, of which 86.6% were distress sales: 163 foreclosure sales and 31 [...]

East Sacramento Real Estate Market Update: May 2009

Sacramento Real Estate Gal - Purva Brown — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:42:48 +0000

Since we last took a look at East Sacramento, prices are faring quite a bit better, but let’s get to that in a bit. First, let’s look at unit volume. A total of 52 homes sold in the area in May, an overall unit volume increase of 57.6% year over year. Of these 21 were [...]