San Diego Coastal Real Estate Selling Properties

Encinitas Community Resource Center – Proving Lives Can Change

Dee Marie Fisher — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Since 1979, the Encinitas Community Resource Center has been dedicated to providing women and children, individuals, and families with critical emergency and transitional housing assistance, food programs, comprehensive domestic violence services, and much much more. Their mission is to provide families in need and victims of domestic violence with safety, stability, and a path to [...]

FHA Refinancing – When You Should Really Be Checking the Fine Print

Dee Marie Fisher — Tue, 01 May 2012 00:10:15 +0000

The Obama administration’s new plan to stimulate the refinancing of FHA mortgages is likely to help large numbers of homeowners cut their monthly costs – even those who are deeply underwater. But the programs fine print may end up being quite the disappointment to many borrowers who didn’t read it carefully enough. So let’s cut [...]

Green Building Alert! PACE Update

Dee Marie Fisher — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:04:25 +0000

FHFA Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – Public Comment Sought Federal housing regulators are seeking the public’s opinion as they initiate a rule-making with regard to PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) programs. If you don’t know much about PACE programs they are programs that permit municipalities to provide financing to property owners for purchase of [...]

This Rent Makes Sense

Dee Marie Fisher — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:57:05 +0000

The Value of Rental Ownership Rental ownership has had a long history of satisfying the primary requirements for financial independence: safety of capital, inflation hedge and tax favored income. If the financial statements of the wealthy were available for review, you would see that long term income producing real estate assets directly or indirectly contribute [...]

10 Reasons Why Real Estate Investors Should Buy Property Now

Dee Marie Fisher — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:34:52 +0000

Buy San Diego Investment Properties…. Best Purchase Opportunity in Decades – Many commercial brokers believe that present market conditions provide an unparalleled buying opportunity to lock in significant real estate investment returns. Despite opinions of some real estate professionals, however, many investors remain on the fence. 1031 Exchange Opportunity – Investors with low basis properties [...]

Declining Sale Prices Keep Home Buyers and Sellers on Sideline

Dee Marie Fisher — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:00:36 +0000

Has San Diego Real Estate Market Reach Bottom? In 2009 active listings were at an all time high of 15,000 for San Diego County. Sadly, today they are less than half that, at 7,425, being the lowest ever in three years. The findings are based on a data set starting in June 2009, when the [...]

Short Sales and Mortgage Debt Relief Act

Dee Marie Fisher — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:54:58 +0000

The Law Ends December 31, 2012…. Once upon a time, when a homeowner did a short sale, the IRS counted the difference between what the bank took and what the homeowner owed as income. Not much incentive there. In 2007, the federal government enacted the Mortgage Debt Relief Act (MDRA) that allows qualified taxpayers to exclude [...]

Homeowners with “Jumbos” Pose Strategic Default Risk

Dee Marie Fisher — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:40:15 +0000

Strategic Loan Defaults possible in Del Mar and other high end real estate markets…. Do you have a big mortgage and good credit scores but not much equity – maybe you’re even underwater? If this is you, you’re not alone; thousands of homeowners across the nation are in the same boat as you and new [...]

Are Zillow, Trulia, and Other Real Estate Search Sites Cleaning Up Their Act?

Dee Marie Fisher — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:03 +0000

REAL ESTATE INTERNET SITES… For millions of serious (and not so serious) home buyers, the first steps in the house hunt or to determine a seller's list price are likely Zillow and Trulia. The syndicating sites are simple and listing information can be gathered just only after a few searches. But what consumers can’t see [...]

Council Agrees to Dump Portion of General Housing Plan Project in Encinitas

Dee Marie Fisher — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:49:19 +0000

ENCINITAS GENERAL HOUSING PLAN The Coast News reported that the controversial proposal to add 1,255 multifamily homes along busy El Camino Real and put 640 more along Encinitas Boulevard is officially dead. Councilwoman Kristin Gaspar, said that the consulting company (MIGInc. of Berkeley) failed by creating a poorly done housing plan that contained little community [...]