The Importance of Staging a Home
When working with sellers, the topic of home staging comes up and usually it’s met with a bit of pushback. For a seller, its hard to justify spending money on staging a home when a walk-through by a...
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2019 Real Estate Forecast: Millennials Are Buying More Than Avocado Toast
The prognosis for California’s housing market in 2019 is promising. With a vast number of millennials reaching home-buying age, the demand from first-time buyers is forecasted to increase as chief economist for Realtor.com Danielle Hale point...
7 Reasons To Use A Real Estate Agent
According to the Zillow Group Consumer Housing Trends Report, a whopping 89 percent of sellers list their home with a real estate agent. The sellers surveyed listed trustworthiness, responsiveness, local market knowledge, a good reputation in t...
The Holidays in Santa Barbara
What’s December like in Santa Barbara? We’re like the rest of the country, but with fewer layers and more beach days. Our coastal town gets festive during the holidays and puts on may fun, family friendly events. Check out just a few of the...
How to Prepare for a Home Inspection When Selling Your House
Here’s a scary scenario. Imagine you’ve been busy preparing your home to sell for months. You’ve been working diligently with your REALTOR, home stager, mortgage lender, and contractor to get everything perfect so that you can sell your h...
Vote YES on Prop 5
California Has an Unfair Moving Penalty
Under current California law, property taxes are set at 1% of the assessed value of the property when purchased. This becomes known as the property’s “tax base.” In addition, the assessed value c...
Proposition 10 will make California’s housing crisis worse
THE FACTS
This flawed measure is the wrong way to provide more housing that working Californians can afford. We should focus on better solutions for providing rent relief to Californians than this initiative, including increasing tax credits...
How Does an Appraiser Determine Property Value?
Home appraisers value property by doing a walk-through of the house and then using one of two standard valuation methods: either the “sales comparison approach” or the “cost approach.” Occasionally, an appraiser might apply both valuati...
What Mortgage is Right For You? Types of Mortgage Loans Available in 2018
If you’re planning on buying a home soon, you’re probably aware there are many different types of home loans available to you. But how do you decide which type of mortgage loan should you choose? This article will go over all the mortgage p...
Santa Barbara County Residential Statistics July 2018
Whether you are buying or selling in Santa Barbara, it is critical to have a clear understanding of what is going on in our market. You will be better prepared to buy or sell a home by knowing the most important data about local real estate tre...