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Redding Home Inventory Declines, Pending Sales Increase
June 16th, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
As we approach mid-year 2009, the local real estate market is moving along steadily. Today, the number of active home listings is 1544, down from 1552 last week. There were 1495 active listings in early January and 1886 last year at this time. Pending home sales increased to 494 today, up from 257 in early January
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Move Up Buyers Stymied By Slump In Housing Prices
June 15th, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
One key point made by Joel Singer, executive vice president of the California Association of Realtors, in last week’s mid-year economic forecast is the impact declining home prices may have on those wishing to move up to a larger home. Basically, the rapid and steep decline in home prices has wiped out home equity needed to
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Trade Group Attorney Discusses Short Sale Issues
May 9th, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
Neil Kalin, Assistant General Counsel for the California Association of Realtors (CAR), briefed Realtors in Redding last week on issues surrounding the listing and selling of distressed properties. Specific forms have been developed by CAR to address legal and financial considerations for buyers and sellers of these properties.
Sellers of properties that are “upside down”, meaning
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Redding Home Prices May Have Hit Bottom
May 9th, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
A local appraiser pointed out the fact that the average cost per square foot for April was the same as the average for the first quarter of 2009. This could mean that prices have settled for now at $136/square foot. Heretofore, prices have steadily dropped since their peak in mid-2007.
These averages include a large number
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Consumer Confidence Up 12 Points In April
May 7th, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
One more sign the economy may be on the path to recovery are increases in several indices that track consumers outlook on future economic growth. Besides consumer confidence rising from 26.9 in March to 39.2 in April, the Present Situation Index rose from 21.9 to 23.7 and the Expectations Index jumped 19 points from 30.2
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Real Estate Retrofit Bills Gaining Traction
April 29th, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
For decades Realtors have fought legislation that would require homeowners that decide to sell their home perform certain point-of-sale renovations. It’s amazing some of the bills that are pushed through our legislature by special interest groups. Here’s a list of some of the items homeowners would need to address before transferring title if these bills
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Drought May Spur Point-Of-Sale Retrofits
April 27th, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
One impact the extended drought in California could have are new regulations requiring home sellers change out older water-thirsty plumbing fixtures with ones that meet current building codes. “Renovation on resale or retrofit on resale” are stratagies recommended by the Urban Water Use Efficiency Subcommittee, Land Use Subcommittee and Advisory Committee working on an update for the
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Redding Real Estate Market Stats For March 2009
April 21st, 2009
By Brad Garbutt
March sales numbers include good and bad news for the local real estate market. According to data gleaned from the Shasta Multiple Listing Service (MLS), 148 homes sold in March compared to 165 a year earlier, roughly a 10% decline in units sold. However, the number of active listings slid 22% from 1742 last year
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