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Sometimes we think we have ‘seen it all’ until the next thing happens and that happened just this past week.  You might think that an appraisal should be “black and white” meaning pretty straight forward — right?  Guess that is not the case any longer.  All conditions for the buyers have been signed off except for [...]

It seems like we get the same questions daily about SHORT SALES.  It is confusing to people; it’s confusing the agents.  We even had a friend refer their employee to us who had written an offer on a short sale listing and thought he had purchased the property and would be moving soon.  Unfortunately his [...]

Somewhere between short sales and foreclosures —– that’s where the start of 2010 seems to be………. Many of you know that I have been out of town and upon my return wanted to play catch up with what the local Camarillo real estate market has been doing.  I love stats!  Numbers are black and white.  [...]

Many of our readers know that 805Local answers questions on Trulia.com.  Recently we received a Two Thumbs Up BEST  ANSWER on Trulia for the answer to a question dealing with multiple offers.  Here’s the question from a home seller in San Jose, CA –   “After my home was on the market for four months, [...]

Many of us living in Ventura County are ‘transplants.’  We were born some place else and luck enough now to call Ventura County our Home.  This is the case for both of us.  Greg was born in New Jersey and his family moved to Ventura County (specifically Thousand Oaks – the Conejo Oaks tract before [...]

May 2009 closed sales of detached homesin the Conejo Valley totaled 111 with a median sales price of $665,000.  The previous month, April 2009, had 116 detached homesin the Conejo Valley close escrow with a median sales price of $547,5000. One year ago, May 2008, closed sales of detached homes in the Conejo Valley totaled [...]

May 2009 closed sales of detached homes in Camarillo totaled 57 with a median sales price of $468,000.  The previous month, April 2009, had 38 detached homes close escrow with a median sales price of $467,500. One year ago, May 2008, closed sales of detached homes in Camarillo totaled 40 with a median sales price [...]

It’s called Broker Tour, Broker Caravan and/or sometimes just Caravan.  But the question is: “what happened to caravan?”  The purpose of caravan is to have a property open to the Realtors to go preview – usually new listings - within a specific time period each week.  Last week in Camarillo there was a total of one [...]

We have been waiting for this to happen but we are announcing it is official — multiple offers are back.  How long will this new phenomenon continue in style is any body’s guess.  We have seen increased activity and multiple offers on listings that  have been sitting with little or no action.  Then boom –there are four offers.  [...]

April 2009 closed sales of detached homes in the Conejo Valley totaled 108 with a median sales price of $547,500.  The previous month, March 2009, had 86 detached homes in the Conejo Valley close escrow with a median sales price of $587,500.  One year ago, April 2008, closed sales of detached homes in the Conejo [...]