RE REALTY EXPERTS, The San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Resource If you are in the market to Find a Home or Sell a Home in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you would like to know How Much Your Home Is Worth,  RE REALTY EXPERTS The San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Resource is here to help. RE REALTY EXPERTS was founded in 1995 and since then has rapidly grown into one of the premier real estate resource companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.  RE REALTY EXPERTS is staffed with approximately 100 of the most experienced, multilingual, award winning real estate agents from around the San Francisco Bay Area.  Conveniently located at 41051 Mission Boulevard Fremont, Ca  RE REALTY EXPERTS The San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Resource is open 7 days a week.  Office hours are as follow: ... 10/05/2012

Market statistics for August 31, 2012 in Fremont, Ca.   I have supplied three charts showing the inventory of single family homes and condo/townhouses that are were posted for sale as of the end of January, end of July and end of August of this year in Fremont, Ca. In Fremont, as in many places in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere, the inventory of houses for sale is unusually small. Real estate is cyclical and we have changed from a real estate market where there were plenty of homes for sale and not that many interested buyers to a market where eager buyers are pursuing a sharply reduced number of real estate buying opportunities. We don’t understand the reasons that there are so few houses for sale. We do know that lenders are releasing fewer REO properties onto the market. At... 09/02/2012

Unknown breed of duck purchased on Portobello Road, West London Last Sunday, we packed up the kids and headed off to the Niles area of Fremont for their city-wide garage sale or street sale. Arriving at about noon and driving ever so gently through First, Second and Third Street in the car and eyeing all that was to be had was fascinating for me but only for a little while. While I was indeed saucer-eyed looking through the car window at some of the potential deals, I quickly realized there was no way to actually buy anything from the car. I felt a little lame actually. What was I going to do--stop the car? I can see it now. Car stopped, and me getting out with the typical half skip and a jog with my arms tucked up high towards some box full of fishing tackle for sale. Then, I give the... 08/30/2012

My job broke my heart the other day. In short, I had to tell a very qualified would-be renter that they did not get the home for rent in Fremont. We do property management in the TriCity area as well. http://tricityhome.com/Fremont-Newark-Union-City/Tri-City-Property-Management/index.html    So, because of this, I felt the need to see if other Fremont real estate agents could use this template and idea I made as a result. Why not urge renters to set up notifiers using real-time MLS data.     It goes something like this... __________________   Dear [name of renter]   Thank you for inquiring about the rental on 123 Anystreet. It is now rented as of yesterday afternoon. I know it is hard to hear the news. It is also hard to deliver the news all the time, but I have something for you that ... 08/30/2012

Here is my market update for the Fremont, Ca. real estate market for 7-31-12. As seen in the charts below, the inventory remains constrained although listings of single family detached homes have increased somewhat over the last sixty days. Listings for condos and townhouses remain scarce. The decline in the absolute numbers of REOs and short sales has continued. These distressed property categories now make up a substantially smaller percentage of the total listings then they did at the beginning of the year. As banks have made the belated realization that short sales are better for them than REOs the short sale inventory has become a much larger part of the overall market than REOs. Total inventory of real estate for sale in Fremont remains tight. The result continues to be a scenario... 08/02/2012

  Wenlock (Mandeville not shown) is pictured above in Union Jack suit The 2012 Summer Olympics will be in London, and even though I still have not had the pleasure to compete in nor attend,  I have had the privilege of being glued to the television from as far back as 1972, when Mark Spitz and Dave Wottle stole the show in Munich, all the way up to more recent Olympic history when Michael Phelps brought home gold from Beijing in 2008. The 2012 Olympics in London is starting in just 6 days, and I think watching it on TV still grants us license to be a part of history as we sit up and say, "I saw that when it happened."   We would also like to congratulate our local Fremont and Pleasanton east bay area residents who will be participating in a much more real sense by carrying the torch. Th... 07/21/2012

The red-tailed hawk is found all through the United States, Canada, Mexico and even in Central America.  Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have had the pleasure of living in what has to be one of the red-tailed hawk's favorite places to live and raise their young, Fremont, CA. Fremont's terrain encompasses wetlands that begin at the sloughs like Newark Slough, Plummer Slough, Mowry Slough and Mud Slough, then gradually lifts to become landscape for creeks like Alameda, Morrison, Vargas and Mission and approximately 7 others to the south. It is a great environment for mice, gophers, snakes, rabbits and many other types of prey. If you have ever heard a distinct screech in the sky in early July, you may be the hearing young red-tailed hawks having a go at producing the bona fid... 07/17/2012

I meet with a lot of people who want to buy Fremont, Newark, Union City homes. They sometimes tell me that they are receiving emails from another real estate agent that contain links to homes for sale. If they are not already subscribed to receive notifications, I will try to subscribe them to one. They call these emails listing notifications. Fremont listing notifications are emails usually sent by real estate agents that contain links to one or more homes for sale in Fremont or another city that they are interested in. It's not only agents sending out these notifications of homes for sale in Fremont, but home buyers themselves sign up for these notifications so they themselves do not have to chain themselves to the computer searching for homes. In fact, I myself, a real estate agent ... 07/14/2012

  When a Fremont real estate agent http://www.tricityhome.com/Fremont-Newark-Union-City/index.html sells homes in Fremont, Newark and Union City, that Fremont real estate agent must also trust a lot of new technology to work together at critical moments. Most of the time technology cooperates, but sometimes it does not. Bay East Association of Realtors, had a mandatory Supra Lock Box update a few years ago which granted Fremont real estate agents the opportunity to trade in the old, grey key lock box’s technology for the new, blue technology. The new locks worked well and offered infra-red connectivity, a way for some Fremont real estate agents who sell homes in Fremont to downloaded an app, connect directly to the lock box to open the box and receive data straight to their smart phone... 07/13/2012

The food trucks are back in Fremont, Ca. for Fremont Street Eats. Head over to the Mission Valley Regional Occupation program parking lot at the corner of Stevenson and Blacow any time between 4:30 and 9:00 this evening and let the catering trucks provide gourmet food on wheels. The Lineup Rice Rockit Tacos de los Altos Rodericks BBQ Truckin Sweet Pizza Pimps That’s Sweet Dessert Truck Grillaz gone Wild My Shrimp Shack Blast Off BibiGO Bring your appetite! 06/15/2012

Market Report: Fremont, Ca. 6-1-12 The big story in Fremont, Ca. real estate is about lack of inventory. Everywhere we hear the same complaint – there are not enough houses for sale. At the same time, buyer demand is strong. The result is that almost every well priced, attractive Fremont home – and many that are not – are receiving multiple offers, often settling above the list price. Look at what has happened in the last four months in the Fremont real estate market.     The inventory of detached homes has declined by 33%. Detached REO listings have declined by 69%. Detached short sales have also declined by 69%.   The inventory of condos and townhouses has declined by 61%. REO listings in this category have declined by 82% and short sale listings have declined by 75%   What do these f... 06/01/2012

  The Fremont Police Department has unveiled their new website.  Supposedly, it come complete with easier navigation, custom communications and a user-friendly design. Check it out at http://www.fremontpolice.org/                                   02/21/2012

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Fremont Warm Springs Extension   The Bay Area Rapit Transit (BART) Warm Springs Extension will add 5.4-miles of new tracks from the existing Fremont Station (near Mowry Ave and Paseo Padre) south to a new station in the Warm Springs district of the City of Fremont.An optional Irvington Station may be built approximately midway, in the Irvington District, depending on future funding through the City of Fremont and may be added at a later date.The BART extension will cross over Walnut Avenue; under Stevenson Boulevard, Fremont Central Park and the Union Pacific Railroad track in a subway; over Paseo Padre Parkway; under Washington Boulevard; under Auto Mall Parkway; and over South Grimmer Boulevard.The Warm Springs Station will feature an at-grade island plat... 02/13/2012

The market statistic for Fremont, Ca. for 1-12-12 show that inventory has moved up slightly from year-end 2011 but is still far lower than the inventory figures for the end of September, 2011.        It does not matter whether you are considering the purchase of a condo, townhouse or single family detached home. It does not matter whether you want a traditional sale, short sale, or REO – or if you would rather steer away from REOs and short sales – inventory is thin. What does that mean? The law of supply and demand has not been repealed. Demand may be down due to prevailing economic forces. But demand has not disappeared. Supply is definitely down. There are obviously fewer houses for sale than in the recent past. If you see a well located, attractive home, other buyers will also find ... 01/31/2012

Multiple offers!!?? What?? In Fremont, Ca. How can that be?  All of the news stories are stressing that the economy is still poor, home sales are poor and home prices are not going up. The prevailing wisdom among many people with whom I speak is that low-ball offers are the way in which buyers should make offers these days. At least that is what buyers tell me. Well, I don’t think low-ball offers will carry the day when there are 30 offers on one house! Wow! Thirty offers! What year is this? Are we in 2004? Not only did that house receive a surprising number of offers but the house itself is an REO! Aren’t REOs supposed to sell at a big discount from the market price compared to a “normal” sale? At least that is what buyers tell me. The house is question is located in the attendance are... 01/29/2012

Market Statistics for Fremont, Ca. 11-22-11.   Who says it’s a buyer’s market? One of the major facets of a buyer’s market is that there are lots of choices for buyers. In other words, there is lots of inventory. Not so in Fremont right now. In fact, the available listings of single family homes have plummeted. How much of the decline is seasonal? Who knows? I think we can expect a continued decline through December. January often is in line with December with an uptick in inventory normal in February. We shall see.   So what do these statistics that are evidence of shrinking inventory mean? Well, if you are a buyer whose intent is to write low-ball offers because you are hoping for a DEAL, you might want to rethink that strategy.                                                         ... 11/22/2011

Renting a home after  a short sale can be done Although Fremont-Union City home renters looking for homes to rent in Fremont have to do so in some very trying times, despite challenges, many of them are excellent renters. A lot of Fremont renters have been recovering from a short sale in their recent history. That's a rough situation to be in. Not only can they can no longer keep their home, they must now have their recent financial woes made known to their soon to be landlords and the property management. Albeit embarrassing, landlords as well as property management should read between the lines of the back round report. The people looking to rent in Fremont-Union City, who have come out of short sales, can be very reputable renters. Landlords and property management professionals sho... 11/06/2011

Greece, the Fed and Inflation—Oh, My! How Do We Get Mortgage Interest Rates?   First, here’s how we don’t: There are three common misconceptions about how mortgage rates are determined: 1) solely by each lender, 2) by the Federal Reserve and/or 3) based on the 10-Year Treasury Note.  There are still mortgage professionals claiming rates are based on the 10-Year Note.  Wrong! Now, here’s how we do: While there are several generic interest rate trend indicators, rates can be influenced at any given moment by at numerous different variables in the market and with each individual loan approval scenario. The mortgage rate marketplace is dynamic and complex.  Lenders set their rates every day based on the market activities of Mortgage Bonds, also known as Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS).  A ... 11/03/2011

Got You On Camera...No.. NOT my GOLD...  It was my Grandmothers!  Have you heard this comment lately from your friends, colleagues, neighbors, or clients?  With the loss of jobs, kids looking for something to do, we have been reading more and more about houses being broken into.  In just a six month period, we recently read on the Police Blotter in Fremont, CA, a group of three boys under the age of 17, were arrested for 6 break-ins!  They were after GOLD.  Gold prices have gone out the window, which has caused a higher rate of house break-ins.  Are you prepared?  Did you get it on camera?   This may be a great gift for your new home buyers, a surveillance camera ready to take down the "thief".  You can connect from your Smart Phone and see what is happening in your home and neighborhoo... 10/26/2011

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