Qualified Mortgages to Affect 2014’s Real Estate Market

  The Consumer Protection ACT and Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform were administered into a law in 2010 to avoid a return of the housing and financial crisis in 2008, the numbers from that time period wasn’t as significant since the financial system of the Great Depression. Qualified Mortgage (QM) will start this month, which are new rules initiated in the …

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The Forecast of 2014’s Interest Rates

  We’ve reached the New Year. The rates in mortgage keep on increasing, however money market interest rates and certificates of deposit are not according to an article in the San Diego Union-Times. Mortgage rates rose to as high as a full percentage point while savings accounts paid out a mere 0.1 percent in interest. This was a pattern that …

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Default Notices at its Lowest in Eight Years

  Following October, that indicated a rise in foreclosures and defaults, San Diego County faltered by a large amount as notices of defaults decreased as low as it has been in eight years according to an article in the San Diego Union – Times. In October, 173 homes in San Diego were repossessed, while real estate in San Diego, in …

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What will be seen in San Diego Real Estate in 2014?

  Because of the effects of the Great Recession, it is known that San Diego real estate has accepted the fact that there is a bubble encasing market. According to a story in KPBS San Diego, to weather the storm of this recession from the prior five years, customers have looked to real estate. However, it has been difficult to …

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New Real Estate Marketing Strategy Administered by San Diego Union-Times

  According to a press release distributed Wednesday morning, the San Diego Union-Times has input a new marketing program to assist consumers and real estate agents alike with a chance for lucrative situations. U-T San Diego has spring boarded the program called Union – Times Certified Real Estate Services to associate clients to connect with top-notch real estates that will …

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The Sluggish Housing Market Continues in San Diego

You guessed it. The market for buying homes remains the same as fewer there is fewer real estate in San Diego that people are buying. Although the sales are in a lethargic state, the median price has still increased just a tad according to the San Diego Union-Times. November displayed that median priced homes in the county was sold at …

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Top Trends for Real Estate in 2014

According to the Urban Land Institute (ULI), after recovering from a rough year in the real estate market, the developing trends were highlighted in a real estate report concocted at a Chicago ULI meeting last month, according to CBS News. Beginning to move into the market are Millennials Generation Y, or the millennial generation, are beginning to move into the …

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San Diego Housing Market Slowdown Imminent

According to a report released on December 9 by the San Diego Association of Realtors (SDAR), San Diego real estate market will slow even though the prices of homes will maintain a similar rate in which they were sold in 2012, according to an article in KPBS.org. This year in October, the numbers faltered 11.3 percent of what was sold …

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10 Facts of Home Swapping

A slew of companies have opened that have catered to the home-swapping trend, i.e. Love home Swap, Knok and CasaHop. Sites like HomeLink, HomeExchange and Intervac are companies that were catalyst to this trend. Love Home Swap, Knok and CasaHop are evolving the idea into social media screenings by recommendations and personalization algorithms. As home swapping has been practiced for …

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Slowly But Surely, San Diego Real Estate Price Increases in September

 Judging from September, San Diego real estate once again surged, however the pace of the increase is slowing a bit. According to The S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Index (Standard & Poor), it indicated that the rise of the index is at 0.9 percent from August to September. This is still a reduction between July to August which posted a 1.8 …

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