San Diego Home Buyers Benefit from Expanded Tax Credit
The $8000 first-time home buyer tax credit was scheduled to expire in just a few short weeks…Nov 30, 2009. I say ‘was’, because the Senate voted unanimously to extend the credit on...
San Diego Real Estate News & Market Trends
San Diego County CA Foreclosure Trends - September 2009
There were 12,492 San Diego County CA foreclosure homes and 1,345 new foreclosure filings in Sept 2009. The average sales price of an San Diego County CA home was $444,738 and the average sales price...
State Program Pays Homebuyers Mortgage
As if low interest rates and low home prices weren't enough to motivate homebuyers to purchase a home in today's real estate market. Now the California Association of Realtors have designed a new prog...
Free Government Money To Buy a Home!
The United States goverment is trying to stimulate the economy by enacting the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. What it does is provide first time home buyers, those that have not owned a perso...
San Diego Short Sales Taking Forever
While looking for a home, many of you may have notice the massive number of short sale properties that keep popping up for sale here in San Diego County. The number of foreclosures coming on the marke...
$700 Billion Bailout Bill Fails To Pass
The House of Representatives voted on Monday afternoon on the $700 billion bailout plan that is said to keep our economy from going into a recession. Despite the President Bush's plea for House Repres...
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Bailed Out!
Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been now taken over by the U.S. Government in hopes to stabilize the financial markets; not only in the U.S. but globally as well. It seems that the imm...
Congress Approves Housing Rescue Bill
Senate passed the Housing Rescue Bill on Saturday, which will provide $300 billion to rescue homeowners that are facing foreclosure. President Bush is expected to sign the bill in the next few days an...
What's with the Blue House?
Have you noticed the obvious big blue stick framed house along the 15 freeway in Rancho Bernardo? At first glance, you may think to yourself, why in the world would someone stain their home blue? That...
Del Mar California Horse Races Opening Day
It's official, opening day of the Del Mar race season in San Diego, California began on Wednesday, July 16th and like every year, a contest for the best hat was held. This year the grand prize winner...