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Half Yearly Report

03 Jul

Half way into 2010!  Short sales are still the name of the game.  Numbers have changed quite a bit in the last 3 months.

Upland has 185 listings,  47 are short sales and 14 are Bank owned.

Rancho Cucamonga has 424 listings – up 61.  176 are short sales and 53 are bank owned.

Claremont has 114 listings compared to 96 -3 months ago.  10 are short sales and 11 are bank owned.

Ontario has 358 listings up 46.  172 are short sales and 67 are bank owned.

Good old Fontana has 658 listings – 3 months ago they had 498 – that’s 160 more listings!  289 are short sales – 71 more than the last report and 84 Bank owned down 44.

So there you have the half yearly report – good news!  More homes for sale, and super low interest rates -  it’s still a Seller’s market here in the Inland Empire.  Buyers are still hungry for more – so let’s watch how the summer of 2010 heats up!

 
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I Was Hacked!

16 Jun

But I have good news – my site had to be rebuilt from the ground up.  I now have a new theme – my best ever!  Needed new plugins, widgets, etc.

With the new look of my site – I feel good about posting more often.  So add my RSS feed and follow me!

 
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April Stats

05 Apr

Wow, the first 3 months of the year are over!  This month  I want to add in Sales in the last 30 days.

How are the local cities doing as we enter the second quarter?

Upland has 183 listings, 47 are short sales and 14 are bank owned.  March sales 59

Rancho Cucamonga has 363 listings, 175 are short sales and 53 are bank owned.  March Sales 171

Ontario has 312 listings, 151 are short sales and 69 are bank owned.  March sales 139

Claremont has 96 listings, 10 are short sales and 11 are bank owned.  March sales 25

Fontana has 498 listings, 289 are short sales and 84 are bank owned.  March sales 278

Let’s start looking at Montclair – 56 listings, 29 are short sales and 7 are bank owned.  March sales 20

With all the First-time Buyers rushing to meet the April 30 tax credit deadline, it’s good to see that we have more listings to choose from!

My take on these stats are that we look at the ratio of listed homes to sold homes to see how many months of inventory we have available thus showing us if the market is a buyer’s or seller’s market.  Overall, we have 2-3 months inventory in the 6 cities highlighted.  That my friends, is a Seller’s Market!  More demand for homes than homes available on the market.

 
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March Stats

04 Mar

February was a good but hectic month for me – filled with nothing but Short Sales!

Are short sales the “new” norm for real estate?  Hate to say it but in this area, YES!  I am immersing myself in the world of short sales, it’s sink or swim, no getting away from them!

So knowing that, let’s look at the stats for the local cities I’ve been watching.

Upland – 159 listings, 14 of those are REO and 49 are short sales.

Rancho Cucamonga – 343 listings, 53 REO and 156 short sales.

Claremont – 84 listings, 5 REO and 11 short sales -whoa!

Ontario – 243 listings, 50 REO and 164 short sales.

Fontana – 494 listings, 81 REO and 287 short sales.

My take on these numbers for March?

Well, dear old Claremont is picking up speed – 16 more listings, 4 more REO’s and only 1 more short sale.

Overall, the other cities saw increases in listings except Rancho, down 11.   Lone wolf Fontana was the only city with more REO’s, the other cities were down for the count.

But SHORT SALES were UP in every city I’m currently watching!

The heat is on!  I just want to throw this out there.   Did you know that in the 91701 zip code, one of the most affluent in the Inland Empire,  there are 175 Notices of Default on homes?  These homeowners are 3 months delinquent.  And these homes are NOT on the market.  What happens when the loan modifications don’t work and they hit the market as SHORT SALES?   The writing is on the wall…….

 
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Alta Loma Tour

15 Feb

Here I am in Alta Loma, California.  Check it out!

 
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90 Day Flip Rule is History

21 Jan

Good News!

February 1, 2010 is the date we have been waiting for!

The 90 day “flip” rule that FHA imposed to slow down the turn around time for investors to flip houses has been suspended for a year – until 2/1/11.

What does this mean?  Well, as an active Buyer’s agent I can say that I have had to say 100′s of times  to my very excited FHA Buyer, “sorry, you can’t make an offer on this home because the 90 day rule applies”.   It’s like popping a balloon!  They are confused and I explain that the rule means that an investor has purchased the home less than 90 days ago at a very low price because the home is distressed.  The investor then “rehabs” the home with carpet, paint, landscaping, etc.  so the home is brought up to speed for the neighborhood.

Then the investor lists the house with a Realtor but if its still within the 90 day time frame, only buyers approved for a conventional loan of 10-20% down payment or an all cash Buyer can purchase the home.  The rule “protected” the Buyer from an investor who was trying to make a lot of $$ in a short time and inflating prices in the neighborhood thus making for another over inflated market like we experienced just a few years ago.

I think the flip rule was not that effective because the houses still sold to other “investors” who were just too lazy to do the work themselves.  The only Loser in this whole scenario was the 1st time FHA Buyer who really wanted to buy a house but was discouraged time and again by the “90 day flip rule”.

So, Hooray for whoever got this rule suspended.  Homeownership is for everyone – not just the investors who are trying to make a quick buck.   The thrill for the 1st time homeowner is back, as it should be!

 
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Are Banks going to get it together in 2010?

11 Jan
Second week of the year and rumor has it that banks – especially Bank of America, have plans in place to “streamline” the short sale process.  Well, let’s hope so!  Last year I can tell you that I along with my colleagues vowed that we would not touch a short sale property with a 10 foot pole!
The term “short sale” as used in Real Estate speak refers to a home that has a mortgage greater than what the home can sell for in today’s market.  The process is anything but short.  I’ve heard the horror stories of banks taking as long as a year to approve a short sale!  Now that is totally ridiculous.  There is no reason that it would take so long to get a bank to say ok to an offer made by a qualified Buyer at market value.  Do these loss mitigators sit around eating bon bons and watching soap operas while devastated homeowners sweat it out?
There has got to be a better way and I for one hope that they get their “head out” and start working on approving these short sales before the homeowners are foreclosed on.  The banks caused this fiasco now let’s hope they get it together and make the process truly short!
 
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Happy New Year 2010!

05 Jan
Well here we are a new year and a new decade! A fresh slate for All!
It’s fun to think about what the year ahead will hold!
In Real Estate, it’s anything goes – almost like 2009 but let’s hope a whole Lot better.
So that we all know where we are at, I want to give you some statistics that buyers and sellers can use anyway they want – Just how many homes are on the market in the area?
Well we will start with  Upland.
Upland total homes for sale as of January 5, 2010 is 125. Of those 125, 12 are bank owned and 32 are short sales. January ’09 showed Upland homes for sale at about 350
On to Rancho Cucamonga. There are 305 homes on the market, 44 are bank owned and 141 are short sales. Last year this time Rancho had about 700 homes for sale.
Claremont only has 80 homes for sale with 7 being bank owned and 14 being short sales. Claremont inventory is always low & stable they were at 150 last year
What about Ontario? They are showing 286 total homes on the market, 63 being bank owned and 139 are short sales.
On the other hand Fontana which is known by Realtors to be “Ground Zero” for this economic crisis, has 460 total homes for sale, 100 being bank owned and a whopping 244 being short sales. Wow, just a little less than all 4 cities combined! But at the first of 2009 there were a little over 1200 homes for sale in Fontana.
This will give us a starting point for the year, I will check these stats every month so you can see where we are going! Last year Buyers ate up inventory quickly. The buyers are still hungry but the cupboards are bare!
 
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My New Chino Hills Listing

15 Dec

Condo in the Sonrisa complex.  3 bedrooms, 2.5  Baths, 2 car garage in a quiet of the complex.  Close to shopping, restaurants and freeways.  Good Schools.

 
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It’s A Brand New Blog!

11 Dec

Thanks to my son, Kevin, I have a Blog!

My plan is to bring you the latest news about Real Estate – the good, the bad and the ugly.  The market is changing weekly, if not daily!  As a long time Agent, I want to give you a place to go to where you can get the real story about Home buying and selling.

Your feedback is important to me.  Let me know what your feelings are about my posts and if there is something I’m not talking about, please ask me about!

At times I will be “out of the box”, but that’s what will make this a special blog.  So stay tuned, I’ve got lots to say!

 
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