I have started to wonder Why do banks even do short sale if they don't want to process them?  A couple of years back I got an approval the same day I submitted the short sale packet.  Now it has been several admissions of the same material and updating the material (because of the length of time for the banks and investors to review the file).  Then the story goes on and on........       I'm still hopeful we can get this closed.  _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Mark Watterson is a Utah licensed Real Estate Broker with Principle Realty Group, Inc. and a Utah license Loan Officer with Springwater Capital, LLC Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the mo... 11/22/2009

         _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Mark Watterson is a Utah licensed Real Estate Broker with Principle Realty Group, Inc. and a Utah license Loan Officer with Springwater Capital, LLC Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and frien... 11/15/2009

Saratoga Springs subdivision is a master planned community (PUD) located on the west side of Utah Lake with a 18 hole golf course on the south side and the natural hot spring on the north.  The hot springs feeds a hot tub and swimming pool.  In the same location is a club home, picnic area and boat dock. Saratoga Springs is one of the newest development/cities in Utah.  The young age of the city and location make it a desirable community to live. With the current high inventory and attractive pricing, buyers are finding great values in their purchases.  We are also seeing price stablization which is good news for those needing to sell their homes. For more information or questions please call or email me. mark@MarkWatterson.com    ________________________________________________________... 11/08/2009

We need Positive Price Action to confirm market bottom.  One month of price improve isn't sufficient to confirm the market bottom.  We need to see appreciation month over month for three months. PRICE ACTION   Other good signs in addition to positive price action is lower DOM (days of the market), lower new listings and higher percent of new listings being SOLD.    SUMMARY Currently we are not seeing the needed positive price action (along with other indicators) to confirm a market bottom.  This is NOT a good time for those with low and/or no risk tolerance to purchase.  High and medium risk tolerant investors are making buying decisions and are doing some bottom fishing.  Some are trying to time the market and market timing is risky.  Trying to time the bottom is not for the inexperien... 11/08/2009

 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mark Watterson is a Utah licensed Real Estate Broker with Principle Realty Group, Inc. and a Utah license Loan Officer with Springwater Capital, LLC Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends because of th... 10/18/2009

Number of homes in Saratoga Springs that sold actually doubled to 132!  That makes it the highest increase in the county by a long ways.  Median and average sold price are somewhat close to the county average and are both in the $239,000 range.  Price of active Saratoga Springs homes has been raised with median price up 4.36% and average price up 13.83%. Inventory is at 7 months. 07/08/2009

   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Mark Watterson is a Utah licensed Real Estate Broker with Principle Realty Group, Inc. and a Utah license Loan Officer with Springwater Capital, LLC Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends be... 06/07/2009

We need Positive Price Action to confirm market bottom.  One month of price improve isn't sufficient to confirm the market bottom.  We need to see appreciation month over month for three months. PRICE ACTION   Other good signs in addition to positive price action is lower DOM (days of the market), lower new listings and higher percent of new listings being SOLD.    SUMMARY Currently we are not seeing the needed positive price action (along with other indicators) to confirm a market bottom.  This is NOT a good time for those with low and/or no risk tolerance to purchase.  High and medium risk tolerant investors are making buying decisions and are doing some bottom fishing.  Some are trying to time the market and market timing is risky.  Trying to time the bottom is not for the inexperien... 05/28/2009

     _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Mark Watterson is a Utah licensed Real Estate Broker with Principle Realty Group, Inc. and a Utah license Loan Officer with Springwater Capital, LLC Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends b... 05/20/2009

     _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Mark Watterson is a Utah licensed Real Estate Broker with Principle Realty Group, Inc. and a Utah license Loan Officer with Springwater Capital, LLC Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends b... 05/17/2009

The final step in the purchase process prior to closing is the Final Walk through Inspection.  Every home buyer should revisit the property to ensure it is in the condition you required in your offer, and to inspect that any required repairs have been performed.  Final inspection should be no sooner than five days before you intend to close.  Make sure this right to do a final inspection is included in your offer to purchase. Search Utah MLS Utah County Homes AMP Mortgage Xpress Orem Real Estate Provo Orem Homes Provo Real Estate Utah Realtor Utah Homes Utah Homes For Sale Provo Real Estate WS Orem Real Estate WS Utah Homes 4 Sale Alpine Real Estate American Fork Real Estate Cedar Hills Real Estate Highland Real Estate Lehi Real Estate Pleasant Grove Real Estate Utah County Home Values ... 05/10/2009

        _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends because of the exceptional attention to detail, customer focus and the value added services they receive. An unmatched passion and love for providi... 05/06/2009

           _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends because of the exceptional attention to detail, customer focus and the value added services they receive. An unmatched passion and love for prov... 05/03/2009

        _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________      Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends because of the exceptional attention to detail, customer focus and the value added services they receive. An unmatched passion and love for providi... 04/29/2009

There is a huge day coming this month in Saratoga Springs, Utah on April 29th, 2009.  Our new Super Wal-Mart will be opening it's doors and bringing in many new jobs, money into the city and convenience to the community.  We will no longer have to make the long trek into American Fork, Utah to go grocery shopping to Wal-Mart and typically Wal-Mart brings more retail and commercial businesses along with it.  This is great news for Saratoga Springs.  As a relatively small city on a huge growth pattern we have needed some new businesses to help continue to grow our great city.  This will help bring in some much needed tax revenue as well as increase property values.  If history repeats itself, which it often does, once commercial and retail businesses are established the home values rise d... 04/27/2009

       _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________       Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends because of the exceptional attention to detail, customer focus and the value added services they receive. An unmatched passion and love for providi... 04/26/2009

Overall, the numbers for homes in Saratoga Springs have stayed pretty steady.  Homes sold was down just 1.56%.  There is plenty of inventory so it is still a buyers market.  Median sold price barely decreased 1% and average sold price decreased 6.25%.  Saratoga Springs has 375 active listings.   04/23/2009

With all of the turmoil in the subprime mortgage market, many people with poor credit that would have qualified for a home loan a year ago are no longer being considered for mortgage funding. As more and more bad-credit homeowners file for foreclosure, lenders are taking fewer risks on those with less-than-perfect credit. If you fall into this category, and you are hoping to buy a home soon, you may need to first concentrate on improving your credit score before you will be approved. First you need to understand what a credit score is. It is a number generally between 300 and 800 and is a composite of several different factors, including your history of on-time or late payments, the number of credit accounts you have and the balances on those accounts, and the length of time you have ha... 04/23/2009

         _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________       Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends because of the exceptional attention to detail, customer focus and the value added services they receive. An unmatched passion and love for provi... 04/21/2009

       _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________       Contact Mark Watterson your Local Property Resource Specialist for the most up-to-date market conditions data for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber Counties.  View comprehensive property resource information at www.markwatterson.com   It's Not About the Money -It's about life long relationships that are based on Customer Service Excellence.The "Voice of the Customer" is where it all begins. Customer Service Excellence is not just words. It's our CULTURE.My customers refer their family and friends because of the exceptional attention to detail, customer focus and the value added services they receive. An unmatched passion and love for providi... 04/19/2009