How credit influences your home financing options
Whenever a new buyer client calls, I ask if they have been pre-approved for a loan yet. Most reply “no.” From there I explain that before you begin looking at potential homes, you need to get pre-approved. For most buyers, it’s a fairly easy...
JUST SOLD!!! $230,000 for 8246 Lake Forest Drive, Sacramento Ca 95826
I just sold 8246 Lake Forest Drive, Sacramento Ca 95826. The house is in College Greens, one of my specialty neighborhoods. My seller client bought the house in the summer and spent the past few months remodeling the house. The home sold in 4 days...
How to Come Up With a Game Plan for Buying a Home in the Sacramento Area
Doug Reynolds, a Sacramento Area Realtor, sits down with Erick Perpich to discuss the best way to start thinking about buying a home in the Sacramento Area. Erick Perpich is a local loan officer with Republic Mortgage, a direct lender in Folsom. Erick explains that...
First-time Home Buyers Dominate the Market
In some areas of the country, housing is selling like hotcakes, driven higher by the first-time home buyer segment of the market. Typically, first-time home buyers average about 40% of all home buyers, but in 2009, they composed an unprecedented 47%, according...
How-to’s: How Much Home Should You Buy?
Conventional wisdom suggests that buying a home is a long-term investment and that you should buy as much home as you can possibly afford. It’s possible to build equity over time, but that depends largely on what you pay for a home, how robust your market is, and how...
Finance FAQ
Below are some of the frequently asked questions that are posed by homebuyers who are new to the process of buying a home: What is a mortgage? A mortgage is a loan used to buy a home or other real estate property, with the home serving as the collateral...
Selling Tips in a Buyer’s Market
A buyer’s market means it’s the seller’s turn to be flexible, especially with sale terms. Purchase price, closing dates, move-in dates, storage, appliances, window treatments, points and fees may all require a little negotiation. Whatever the terms, don’t let personal...
Sacramento County Real Estate Update October-November 2011
Doug Reynolds, a Sacramento Realtor, provides an analysis of the local market statistics from September. This month discussing how Sacramento area sales went down a bit in September. As well as the issues with low inventory and the competition from buyers. Multiple...
September 2011 Housing Statistics – Sacramento County
Sales prices flat, decreased activity for September Sales decreased 5.6% from 1,711 units sold in August to the current 1,615 units sold this month. Year-to-year, closed escrows were up 12.7% from the 1,433 units sold last September. Making up the closed escrows this...
Sacramento council approves naming alleys Midtown
After years of dead ends, the City Council voted Tuesday night to name the alleys of the central city grid. The new names will be a nod to Sacramento's history and character.As a result, alleys in most of midtown and downtown will begin with the letter of the street...



