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Real Estate Trends - Palmdale, Lancaster, Quartz Hill and the Greater Antelope Valley Feb 28, 2012. Senators are introducing legislation to shorten the process of a short sale about time.  Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., along with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio have jo...

Putting 2011's numbers to bed in the Antelope Valley. Here is how we did in the high desert in 2011... - December, the sale of SF homes falls -9.8% vs. Nov 2010 and ………….. - falls -9.8% for all of 2011 - in Dec 467 homes were sold, for 2011 5,826 homes were sold - in Dec the average selling price...

Antelope Valley Building Permit History Foretells Bull Real Estate Market The building boom of the late 1980’s (25,118 homes in 3 years) far exceeded the boom of 2003-2007 (17,045 homes in 5 years).  The weakest year during the 1990’s was 1995 at 861 permits pulled.  That is almost 3 times strong...

Are lenders relaxing FICO requirements?  We believe it is starting right now.  We have seen the average credit (FICO) score required to get a home loan at about 700. This is higher than scores needed before to the collapse and has remained for about a year or so.  Also surviving loan broker’s sho...

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Richard OBrian www.homesbyjr.com | Keller Williams Reality AV | (661) 733-0508 6128 W Avenue J13, Lancaster, CA Great Single Story 3+3 West Lancaster CA 3BR/2BA Single Family House offered at $173,000 Year Built 2006 Sq Footage 2,087 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 full, 0 partial Floors Unspecified Park...

Real Estate Trends - Palmdale, Lancaster, Quartz Hill and the Greater Antelope Valley Feb 2, 2012. The Antelope Valley Winery events are in the works, this Saturday the Wine & Chocolate Pairing Class will be held, there will be two more Pairing Classes in 2012, “Extreme Appetizers” and “The Savo...

MERS is a computer system that in theory was to simplify the way mortgage ownership and servicing rights are originated, sold and tracked. The MERS system was started by the real estate finance industry and was intended to abolish much of the need to prepare and record assignments when trading re...

Real Estate Trends - Palmdale, Lancaster, Quartz Hill and the Greater Antelope Valley Feb 23, 2012. Janet and I  have been doing Short sale for over 3 years and what was true in February 2010 still holds today, be wary of short sale scams.  Janet O'Brian is a Certified Short Sales Specialist in ...

This seems to be all over the web these days as real estate sites get the word out and, there’s a lot of paid advertising on the Google about getting bucks for selling short. The phrases are all about the same: “Get Paid to Short Sale My Home” is the most prevalent.  Also we see the bank’s name i...