Real estate experts offer advice on what papers to bring when first meeting with a lender.

Shasta (Northwest Redding – Redding, California, US) Details Exceptionally clean mobile located on a dead end street providing a quiet location w/visitor

This week I received the CoStar Report and one paragraph caught my attention…as buyers and sellers have asked me recently what will be the effect on commercial real estate transactions….this kind of sums it up: To address risky lending practices, banks will be required to set aside additional capital to cover po

On his blog, local Realtor Skip Murphy linked to this Huffington Post article on Las Vegas, chronicling Sin City's real estate implosion and other woes. This graph jumped out: "Saturn," an exotic dancer at Spearmint Rhino, says she and her...

Preparing Your Home for the Market...Tips on making it more sellable! Before you put your home on the market, take an impartial look at your house, inside and out. You may have only one chance to pique potential buyers' interest when they view your home, so don't let easily correctable flaws stand in the way.

Times are tough in Redding. There have been over 225 bank -owned homes for sale on any day here recently. That number has been trending upwards for months.  But we don't have it nearly as bad as Vegas. The higher you fly, the farther you fal

Here’s a eastside home tucked away against Churn Creek. It compares favorably with other homes for sale in the area as a ’86 3/2 of about 1135 sq ft. The listing agent has provided us with many

Shasta (Northwest Redding – Redding, California, US) Details Upgrades abound in desirable River Ridge subdivision home! Situated on a corner lot with lus

Shasta (Northwest Redding – Redding, California, US) Details Upgrades abound in desirable River Ridge subdivision home! Situated on a corner lot with lus

This Week’s Redding Real Estate Update: Residential Market Statistics Active Listings:  1,628 (from 1,632 last week and 1,613 two weeks ago) Pending Listings:   452 (from 448 last week and 450 two

I recently read a book by Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwartz entitled “Isn’t It Their Turn to Pick Up The Check?” and follow these financial folks on Forbes. I just read the following and it made a lot of sense in view of a conversation I had last week about gifts in real estate as [...]

Got some results for June here. Again, our brokerage is the local sales leader, by far. So what? Well, this is important because most homes are sold through agents. Our brokerage networks in-hous

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This 2340 sq ft home on an acre within easy walking distance to the lovely trails of Lema Ranch is priced at less than $82 per sq ft. That’s just darned inexpensive. Well below replacement costs, were you to try an

Several local brokerages offer education and training as an incentive to have agents join their firm. What you quickly discover is that the "training" is often all about sales, and little emphasis is placed on the accumula

Homeowners - What Not To Do: Losing your home through foreclosure is a traumatic experience that usually occurs at a time when you already are facing significant financial, and even physical and psychological stress. It is understandable why some homeowners make poor choices when facing f

Stephen Munson of Munson Realty makes a great point in his article below about "doing nothing or walking away" from your mortgage. Walking away is definitely not the answer, both from an integrity standpoint and a legal one too. For those of us in California, there are some serious implications, here's a l

Leaving on vacation, either for a weekend or for an extended period of time can be very hectic and it is easy to forget the small, but important things which may make the difference in an average or a terrific getaway. The following checklist is provided to help you remember some of those small, b

Today’s FDotD is a good sized 4/3 built in 1988 with a 3 car garage and an inground pool on 2 acres of pastoral Palo Cedro. Very near highly regarded Foothill High School, and lovely Cow Creek. Dang. Sounds pretty nice. We bet there’s a lot of people wishing they

                          As the temperature rises, so does the cost of cooling your home, especially if you use an air conditioner. Obviously, the best way to keep your home cool during

On Solar, but not with solar. It must have been a flurry of economic activity in the mid 60′s, when they started building the Starview Estates neighborhood. All the streets are named with a nod to the Space Age, but the homes they built there are anything but. Economical and

Shasta Association of Realtors President Joyce Middleton said in today's story on June home sales that a house priced above $300,000 probably needs to be in Cadillac condition if the seller doesn't want it to languish on the market. Or the house needs to be an extraordinary deal. In an e-mail titled "Anot

Today we expanded my commercial real estate business to include a residential specialist to serve our many friends and clients that need assistance with residential real estate, as well as lots and land. Now, both the Largent Team and the Largent Group can serve all real estate needs, from bank owned to “unusual prope

Did you know that Le Brun means “the brown one” in French? Today’s FDotD isn’t brown, but it is an inexpensive 2/1 on the east side of Redding. According to records, it was built in 1950 and is 752 sq ft. It is apparently the unwanted asset of

Shasta (Anderson – Anderson, California, US) Details This 1,375 square foot 3 bedroom home could be a great investment with some TLC! Home already has a swimming

We confess that over 560 blog posts, we have sometimes have picked our FDotD candidate just for the marketing photo. Today, we offer you this artfully angled image. Actually, the home looks quite well appointed and livable in all the subsequent, less artful imagery.

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If you haven’t seen this one, you don’t know Jack …Pine. Terrific in-law/guest type setup for someone who needs some space for horses or other critters. Importantly, it’s on Bella Vista water. Located not far out of town, but not in Redding actua

Over the past few days I have had a chance to look at commercial properties that are currently on the market, and there are some good buys out there. Specifically, I looked at mobile home parks, self storage properties, and gas stations…the 3 areas of my specialization, and there are some good commercial real estate [

We like 4 plexes at FDotD. You can buy this modern and very livable investment property using the exceptionally favorable rates and loan programs currently available to home buyers. Live in one unit, while you fix up and rent the others for top dollar. This is

We were in this house when it was listed in 2008 for over $600K. It was really nice. Very bright and open, which was unusual for a ranch style west Redding home. Two big shops and a nicely re-done pool. Great setting. Updated 1976 built 2688 sq ft 3/2.5. We liked

Brad Garbutt links to a Wall St. Journal story about the increasing popularity of the cool website Walkscore.com and how, supposedly, its metric can really give a pop to real estate values. Real-estate prices are reflecting the new interest in...

So this can't be good news. The federal tax credit for homebuyers ended in April, and then pending home sales dropped off pretty steeply nationwide, according to the

Here’s a somewhat unfinished 2051 sq ft 3/2 on 5.4 acres out east of Bella Vista, with garage space for 5 cars. Since there are few really defined boundaries of the locally named regions in the unincorporated county areas, it’s difficult to say where ‘Bella Vista’ begins and

  WHEN:  Saturday & Sunday, July 10th & 11th   TIME:  1pm-4pm WHERE:   925 Sierra Vista Drive, Redding CA DIRECTIONS: Eureka Way to Sunset Terrace to Red Bud to Sierra Vista Drive INFO:    ASKING PRICE $469,000

Location, location, location is taking on a new meaning in the 21st century as home buyers switch from focusing on schools and neighborhoods to proximity to stores and public transportation. Urban planners cite concerns over future oil prices as the main reason for the shift. They say baby boomers with empty nests and th

We ran a post a few days back about the auction of this home in Palo Cedro. Having helped a client do a rather rigorous examination of the home

To no one’s surprise, property tax assessments dropped across Shasta County in 2009 as the north state’s real estate depression dragged through its second year.

Gen Y's are also known as "echo-boomers" or "millennials". In addition to the top 17 features listed below by Bea Fields of Souther Pines, NC I thought I add a few notes I found helpful from a recent Webinar I took specifically on this topic:

I received a call from Lynette Gooch of River Cities Paranormal Society, NorCal Chapter. It seems she had run across an entry in another blog post I wrote about a Redding house for sale with some paranormal qualities. I assured her my post was meant to be entirely tongue in cheek, as it happens. But her intentions were c

Two men accused of operating what state prosecutors claim was an elaborate real estate and investment Ponzi scheme that bilked thousands of investors out of an estimated $200 million learned Wednesday when they are to stand trial.

Below is a partial guide that will help you identify the dominant features of your home and connect it with the appropriate sytle. Is your home a traditional one, cape cod, craftman, tutor?Which one's your favorite? What type of home did you grow up in? Art Deco:Known for their flat roofs, m

The government now owns nearly half of all foreclosed housing the US. This duplex is a Fannie Mae seized asset. There are not all that many residential incom

Apparently so according to the California Taxpayers Association(Cal Tax) reporting on recent election victories for bonds, hotel, parcel, sales and utility taxes. 44 of 64 local tax measures passed on the June 8 ballot with three more remaining too close to call. Based on these results, expect more cities up and down th

I've had a good relationship with the 3M real estate department for many years while I was with the Economic Development Corp. of Shasta County and was pleased last year when I was asked to assist them with their new project north of Redding.

Think about insurance, maintenance and repairs when calculating the cost of home ownership.

Interested in buying delicious fresh, local produce? Look no further than your friendly neighborhood farmers' market! Markets offering a variety of produce can be found throughout Shasta County. Many markets also offer honey, nuts, eggs, homemade treats, tamales, and more.   Redding Farmers' Ma

This one in River Ridge just came on market. Looks nice. that’s great neighborhood up past Caldwell Park on Quartz Hill Road. Not far to lots of amenities and Lake Redding Golf. From records, it seems to have last sold in 2005 for $354K. Now you may purchase i

Attention banks and government: This is Earth calling! The number of bank owned and government seized homes for sale has spiked up steadily since June. After hovering regularly around 150 or so for sale on any given day for most of the first half of the year, check out the stats in the sidebar. 220 bank owned or g

It's a bit early in July to be looking at June numbers, but we noticed bank owned and government seized homes accumulating quantity, and so we ran the numbers for June today. The chart below shows sales over the last 24 n months  in the greater Redding Metro area, roughly from about Shingletown to Whiskeytown, and Lakeh