Guest post by Julie Jacobson, Redfin field agent in the San Fernando Valley and LEED Green Associate Home buying used to be all about how much home you could afford. Now it’s also about how much home you can afford to operate. In the past, eco-friendly features were nice-to-have options that agents might mention a half… Read More
Starting today, June 11th, Redfin is offering direct agent service in Oak Park, Agoura Hills, and all of Westlake Village (LA and Ventura counties). This means that you can tour and buy homes in these areas with a Redfin agent, and enjoy a rebate of up to 1.5% of the purchase price of your home…. Read More
In June, our Southern California agents presented 140 offers to listing agents and 80 of those, or 57%, were on homes with at least one other offer, down from 65% in May. Joyti Goundar, one of our all-star agents in Southern California worked on 39 offers in June and 30 of them were on listings… Read More
I was out and about in Woodland Hills today and noticed a billowing cloud to the north. It had the faintest amber hue to it. The air felt murkier. And I’ve seen snippets of ash fly across the sky. So I checked around the news for local fires and as of 10 a.m. this… Read More
When I last blogged for Redfin in this space some three months ago, we seemed to be in the midst of a wrenching but - when considered over the long view - rather routine once-a-decade or so real estate downturn. As sharp as the correction was turning out to be, after all, we had seen it all before. Many Southern Californians remembered the regional housing corrections… Read More
About two weeks ago, I got a pamphlet in the mail. It was the information guide for Measure R. Measure R adds a half cent sales tax increase to LA County and will pay for lots of goodies, like street repair, light rail transit expansion, and bus line improvements. According to the LA County… Read More
When all is said and done, how does your monthly budget look? Do you have money left over to save or are you living beyond your means every month? I’ve been keeping track of what I spend money on and it’s a real eye-opener to see where all the cash goes. I use the… Read More
So you all know that they signed the bailout bill last Friday, right? The provisions in the bill include measures that are supposed to help owners avoid foreclosure. But the bill isn’t exactly what I wanted to write about today. Instead, I wanted to share this with you. I went back to one of… Read More
Do you remember being 19? At the time I was 19, I made enough money from my part-time job to cover the expenses of my clothing needs. I had a roof over my head. (Thanks, Mom and Dad.) And I was happy with that. But if you’re 19 and a starlet in Hollywood, you make… Read More
I was checking my inbox recently and found the latest info on foreclosures from Property Shark. Last time I wrote about foreclosures back in September, I noted that parts of the San Fernando Valley topped the charts for number of foreclosures in the Southern California area. Here is a brief list, so you can… Read More