Just listed a house for sale in Oakland’s Temescal District at 4188 Opal Street. I whipped out my HTC Evo 4G and started snapping pictures to offer preview looks to the social web community. After a little touch up work on Instagram using it myriad of editing tools, Oakland’s newest listing in Temescal District [...]
Exploring Downtown Oakland
Lately, exploring downtown Oakland has been really cool in terms of no bridge toll and no searching for parking all night. Hey don’t get it wrong, parking is difficult in downtown Oakland because people are coming there a lot, but it’s not impossible alas San Francisco. Plum Bar is a swanky, urban hang suite intent [...]
Re/Max Accord Market Statistics 01-25-12 (Valley Side)â€
See below the percentage changes of listing in the valley area over the week 01/25/12 See below the percentage changes of pending sales in the valley area over the week 01/25/12 See below the sales by price in the valley area over the week 01/25/12 Find the full details click here
Rental History: More Important in Getting a Mortgage?
Borrowers who have a history of paying rent on time may see a boost to their credit score. Experian, a leading credit report company, added a section to its credit reports last year that reflected on-time rent payments, which helped give a boost in the credit scores to some on-time rent payers. Now the two [...]
More Cities Join ‘Improving’ Housing Market List
The National Association of Home Builders’ list of improving housing markets nearly doubled this month, as more cities showed signs of a rebound with their real estate markets. The list now contains 76 improving markets, up from 41 in December, according to NAHB’s and First American’s Improving Markets Index, a monthly gauge that measures a [...]
Market Statistics 12/22/11
RE/MAX Accord Market Statistics Alameda & Contra Costa Week Ending 12/22/11 (Bay Side) Listings Current Week Change From % Last Year %  Listings Last Week  Listings  Alameda 64 -6 -8.57% 87 -26.44% Albany 15 0 0.00% 11 36.36% Berkeley 53 -12 -18.46% 81 -34.57% El Cerrito 36 -4 -10.00% 54 -33.33% Emeryville [...]
Bay Area home sales up for fifth straight month!
The Oakland Tribune Printed Bay Area homes sold at a faster rate in November than in the same month in 2010, the fifth consecutive month that 2011 has surpassed 2010′s totals, a real estate information service reported Wednesday. San Diego-based DataQuick says that 6,317 homes and condominiums sold in November, an increase of 3.4 percent [...]
Homebuyers Won! Affordable & Accessible Mortgages
Dear Friends & Followers. Congress reinstates the FHA loan limits through 2013 in San Francisco Bay Area Just in case you missed it, earlier this week, Congress restored the loan limits for the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) for two years helping high cost areas in Eastbay Real Estate Market. As you know, in late September [...]
Existing home sales edge higher in October
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Homebuyers scooped up more previously owned homes in October, slowly putting a dent in the huge inventory on the market, an industry report showed Monday. Sales of existing homes rose 1.4% last month to an annual rate of 4.97 million homes, up from a downwardly revised 4.90 million homes in September, [...]