East Bay Area Real Estate

East Bay Area Real Estate News Around The Web San Francisco’s SocketSite.com starts a conversation on The Bay Area “Jumbo Conforming” Foreclosure Bailout Amendment Local  Berkeley Hills Office discusses the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan key components To learn more about the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan visit www.FinancialStability.gov for a summary, fact sheet and [...]

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Preparing for 2009: The new world of financing: I recently attended a discussion on Financing presented by an appraiser, a mortgage broker for primarily conventional financing and one for FHA financing. The changes for appraisers has already begun but come January (unless it is postponed) they will be guided by legislation instilling the arms-length relationship [...]

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Q2 entry-level housing affordability up to 48% The percentage of households that could afford to buy an entry-level home in California stood at 48 percent in the second quarter of 2008 compared with 24 percent for the same period a year ago, according to a report Tuesday by the California Association of Realtors (eastbaybusinesstimes.com) Bay [...]

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SFGate : Trends in Home Prices in the Nine Bay Area Counties Search the database to see how home prices have changed in the nine Bay Area counties over the past one, four and eight years, and since each market’s respective peak. Ending period is March 2008. (Source: DataQuick Information Systems)

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Barbara Hendrickson and Cindy Wilson, REALTORS at Red Oak Realty have an interesting post on their new blog  JustSellMyHouseBlog.com about the Real Estate Market in 2008. We have all heard the words “Change” and “Challenge” a lot lately, particularly in every political campaign out there … well, they are good ones to apply to this [...]

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