Grover Barbaran's (groverhb) Blog

Foreclosure rates are easing in some of the hardest-hit areas, but the plague is spreading to new cities.   Las Vegas always wins the title for worst foreclosure rate in the country. But these 5 cities have the fastest-growing foreclosure rates. And they're not the usual suspects. Homeless U.S. c...

GREAT NEWS!!!   WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators agreed Wednesday to extend a popular tax credit for first-time homebuyers and to offer a reduced credit to some repeat buyers. The tax credit provides up to $8,000 to first-time homebuyers but is set to expire at the end of November. The Commerce Depart...

 This is a very interesting article our CEO from Intero Real estate wrote in our Intero insider Blog, I wanted to share with you all:   By Gino Blefari For as long as most of us can remember, buying and owning a home has been the hallmark of The American Dream. For some time, though, a significa...

  WellPoint, the nation's largest insurance company made over 2.5 Billion in profits last year. Now, WellPoint's affiliate, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, is suing the state of Maine for refusing to guarantee it a profit margin. Taking people's premium money, and then denying them insurance ...

Bills signed into law on October 11, 2009 are: AB260, by Assemblyman Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, will enact the Higher-Priced Mortgage Loan Law, which would codify a fiduciary duty for mortgage brokers, authorize California’s mortgage regulators to apply specified federal mortgage lending laws and regu...

Median sale prices for San Jose, Cupertino, Los Gatos and Saratoga Median sale prices for Menlo Park, Santa Clara, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills Average number of days a property takes to sell in San Jose, Cupertino, Los Gatos and Saratoga Average number of days a property takes to sell in Menlo ...

Santa Clara Recently Sold Homes

  This is good news! Now we can continue providing business and growing relationship with our  Title/Escrow Co. REO Buyer Can Select Escrow and Title: Effective October 11, 2009, the Buyer's Choice Act prohibits an REO lender selling residential property up to four units from directly or indirect...

How many families have you help getting the $8,000 tax credit? Do you have first time home buyer waiting for this Tax credit to extent? I DO! According to CNN money Congress is considering proposals to greatly expand a soon-to-expire $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers -- potentially app...

I still believe 2009 is going to be a year of changes, positive chages I must say,for the real estate market. Lets use our take from the stimulus bill to make 2009 the year of the housing revocery!   GroverB.com