AT HOME IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY

While higher mortgage rates are creating affordability challenges for homebuyers this year, there is some good news for home shoppers.

With the rise in interest rates, some of the intensity buyers faced during the peak frenzy of the pandemic has cooled. This provides buyers with more opportunity and greater chances of success for getting their offers accepted. Here are 3 trends that may benefit you:

Buying a home involves several key professionals. Working with ethical, hard working individuals will not only make your goal of buying a home more attainable, but less stressful!

Like any profession, realtors are NOT all the same. Buying a home is often the most expensive decision we'll make, so why work with someone who doesn't have the skill set and experience to best represent you or whose priority lies with the seller rather than you?

Selling your home can seem daunting. There’s lots to think about, and even more to do! Below, I share a short list of “to do’s” to get your home on the market quickly and easily.

1. Contact me for a FREE home value consultation – I have helped sellers like yourself and can help you too in understanding your home’s current value. Pricing is an important component of an effective marketing strategy and can make the difference in how your home is received by buyers. In a short visit to your home, I can share my customized consultation and plan for getting your home on the market and sold quickly!

That's the question I'm hearing more often these days. And while I'm always a firm believer that you are the only person that can determine if it's the right time to purchase a home, here's additional information that's helpful to know when making your decision.

In this short video clip, I talk about the impact various economic factors - the Feds raising the funds rate, volatility in the stock market and crypto - has on real estate and how it's creating more opportunities and entry for would-be home buyers.

In this short video clip, I talk about how during inflationary times, your money is losing more of its value each day. Purchasing, updating and holding on to real estate may help you keep and grow your money over time. It's also a great strategy for long-term wealth building.

As the Federal Reserve works to curb rising inflation, mortgage interest rates have been increasing. This has put a damper on the home search for some buyers and caused others to re-work their budget for their new home. If you're looking to sell your home in this market, it's important you (and the agent you hire to help you sell your home), understand market trends and the impact these trends have on the sales price of your home.

You've likely heard of escrow as it relates to buying or selling a house, but do you know what it means?

Escrow refers to both a type of business - an escrow company - and a process, i.e. we've opened escrow on our house.

The dreaded "i" word: inflation. We've been hearing it more and more lately and have been feeling it in our wallets too. Almost all the goods and services we're accustomed to spending money on from gas and groceries, to lumber and appliances, have seen prices creep ever northward.