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A Smart Money Tip – Managing Your Mortgage the Right Way

Managing Your Mortgage the Right Way by Lisa Scherzer The one sure bright spot — at least for borrowers — in this still-dismal housing market: ultralow mortgage rates. According to Freddie Mac’s weekly survey, the 30-year mortgage averaged a record low 4.69% for the week ending June 24, down from 4.75% the week before and 5.42% [ READ MORE ]

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Green Your Home for Free?

Almost half of San Francisco’s greenhouse gas emissions come from energy usage in local buildings.  At the same time, excessive water usage in buildings strains California’s water resources.  Currently, the largest constraint to San Francisco’s buildings becoming more efficient in their use of energy and water is the large up-front cost of these improvements.  Despite [ READ MORE ]

Will interest rates spike when the Fed’s buyback program ends?

Great article in SF Gate that explains how the end of the federal buyback program could affect mortgage interest rates.   Here are some excerpts: “Rather than being held by banks, today’s mortgages are sliced, diced and resold on Wall Street to create liquidity – money that then can be lent in more mortgages. After the credit [ READ MORE ]

Plans for Hayes Valley development

Socketsite has posted a really cool update on the old freeway parcel in Hayes Valley.  Check it out. [ READ MORE ]

SF Property Tax Appeal Procedures for 2010-11

The SF Assessor’s Office has announced that they will now accept “Requests for Informal Review of Assessed Value” for tax year 2010/2011 (July 1, 2010-June 30,2011).  Such requests must be filed by March 31, 2010 and apply only to single-family dwellings, residential condominiums, townhouses, live-work lofts and cooperative units. Last year 3,432 requests for informal [ READ MORE ]

10 Steps to Homeownership: #1 Are you ready?

One of the keys to making the home-buying process easier and more understandable is planning ahead.  Planning will help you discover valuable information and shortcuts in the home-buying process.  The more you know about the real estate marketplace, the more likely you are to effectively define your goals.   Take a look at the questions below [ READ MORE ]

No More FHA Spot Approval After February 1

Important Advisory!  Homebuyers intending to use FHA loans to finance condo purchases should be advised that FHA condo “Spot Approvals” are going away February 1. A Spot Approval is when a lender can approve and fund a loan on a specific unit in any condo building provided the building meets certain [ READ MORE ]

Once in a lifetime real estate opportunity!

This morning on the Today CNBC senior analyst Ron Insana had some positive notes about the housing market.  He said the economy will be good this year and because real estate opportunities are generational now is the time to move.  He added that this is one of the few times in this generation that you [ READ MORE ]