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Redding Home Prices Slip Further in 4th Quarter 2009

Despite news that prices have bottomed elsewhere in California, Redding home values dived nearly $4 in the average cost per square foot in the last quarter of 2009 from $133.35/foot to $129.7/foot. The average cost per square foot year-to-year dropped from $148.16/square foot in the final quarter of 2008  representing a 12% drop in value for homes [...]

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Olney Creek Residents In New Floodplain Not Alone

A recent article in the LA TIMES reports tens of thousands of homeowners in Southern California are being required to purchase expensive flood insurance because FEMA has updated maps placing their homes in high-risk flood zones. Apparently, more than 150 cities and unincorporated areas in LA, Orange, Riverside, Ventura and San Bernadino counties have been [...]

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Shadow Inventory Hangs Over Real Estate Market

Experts have been trying to peg the number of foreclosed homes banks are sitting on while  pondering when to list them for sale.  Core Logic, a subsidiary of First American Title Insurance Company, estimated that number at 1.7 million as of September 2009, according to an article cited in a news release by the California Association [...]

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Shasta County Housing Market-A Year In Review

Thankfully, 2009 is in the history books! It was a trying year for many in the housing industry. Real estate offices closed, escrow companies pared their staffs to the bones, lenders struggled with ever-tightening underwriting rules and appraisers are valuing properties conservatively after being blamed for overvaluing properties during the bubble. What follows are my tabulations of yearly [...]

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Digital Age Breeds Rudeness

Am I the only one that notices rude behavior involving cell phones at public functions ? You know, phones ringing when someone is speaking at a podium, madly texting while others are eating or talking loudly on the phone while others are trying to listen to a presentation. Are matters so urgent they can’t wait a [...]

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Inventory Of Bank Repo’s On The Rise

Shasta County has thus far absorbed the onslaught of bank foreclosed homes until just recently. I’ve tracked the number of REO’s (real estate owned), as they are called in real estate jargon, for the past year and the number of these avaiable homes has been relatively stable until Halloween. November marked the beginnining of a steady rise in [...]

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Local Realtors Give Back To Community

The Shasta Association of Realtors sponsor several events this month focused on giving back to the community. Two weeks ago dozens of phone cards were given to local US Army representatives to send to troops in Afghanistan so they can call home for the holidays. Realtors and affiliate members including lenders, title companies and appraisers raised money [...]

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November Home Sales Dip In Redding

As expected, the number of homes sold in November declined after two months of sales increases as first-time buyers bought before knowing the federal tax credit would be extended. 163 homes sold in November, up slightly from 152 during the same period of 2008.  84% of these homes sold were priced below $300,000.
Sales and listing activity slows during the holiday [...]

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