Emily Rose Newmark's Blog

  4 bedroom Luxury Resort Style Home in Tarzana - NOT ON MARKET!   Bedrooms:  4 Bathrooms:  4 Home Size:  2,619 sq.ft. Garage:  3 Lot Size:  7,265sq.ft. Community:  NOT LISTED IN MLS County:  Los Angeles Property Type:  Single Family Detached Year Built:  1989 Property Description Nestled in the ...

  CASH IS KING! Especially in this market!  Did you know that 38% of the deals on the market in the Greater Los Angeles area are CASH ONLY deals? This is not to mention the thousands of Foreclosure homes that will be sold on the courthouse steps in 2012.  CASH IS KING! Especially in this market! ...

List of New California Laws 2012 Child Booster Seat LawThe new California Booster Seat Law outlaws parents, guardians, or drivers from transporting on a highway in a motor vehicle any child under 8 years old without securing that child in an appropriate child restraint meeting federal motor vehi...

2012 Mortgage rate forecast...   FIND OUT THE VALUE OF ANY HOME FOR FREE HERE!!: www.LosAngelesHomeValuesFree.com   Originally posted in Wall Street Journal Online 12.14.11 by Drew Fitzgerald: Mortgage rates are expected to remain very low at least through mid-2012, while housing activity improv...

Has California Turned the corner to recovery? California may finally have turned the corner into recovery, with the job market slated for slow but steady growth over the next two years, according to a report released today by UCLA's Anderson Forecast. "Have we turned the corner in the Golden Stat...

The Recyclable House - Green Deconstruction vs. Demolition As I was completeing the educational requirements for my NAR GREEN Designation, I learned of a new and uncommon practice that is beginging to gain recognition accross the country among "GREEN" the construction industry.    Check out this ...

NEW BENNET & ISAKSON BILL SCARY FOR THE HOUSING MARKET!   New Bennet & Isakson bill scary for the housing market! There is a new BILL that could hinder the housing market. Senators Bennet & Isakson want to ADD UTILITIES INTO THE DEBT RATIO WHEN QUALIFYING A HOME BUYER. They want to LOWER the Qua...

Mortgage Lender's Top Red Flags. In an effort to issue quality loans that will actually become a performing asset to banks, lenders have stepped up their fraud prevention and are heavily scrutinizing mortgage applications.  The research firm CoreLogic estimates that fraudulent residential mortgag...

Consumer confidence down, retail sales up!?  Apparently Consumer confidence is way down according to recent reports, however retail sales are up! Hmmm....Doesn't add up right? Where is the money for these shopping sprees coming from? Maybe its actually coming from looming foreclosures.  Some Amer...

End the deficit!  Please consider...Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting memb...