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How to Sell a Home in the Summer

August 4, 2014 By Roy Hernandez

 

10 Sizzling Summer Home Selling Tips

imagineHome selling in the summer is often a bit more tricky than home selling during other times of the year. For example, spring time selling is the most popular time to put your home on the market. The second best time of the year to sell a home is in the autumn. Summer ranks in meager third position.

Why is Summer Not the Optimum Time to Sell a Home?

 Summer is good for a lot of things, but home selling is not necessarily one of them. In fact, if you don’t have to sell in the summer, you might get more for your home if you wait until fall. Why? Because in the summer

  • People go on vacation
  • Kids get out of school and require attention
  • Summer activities distract

There’s just too much going on during the summer to pay close attention to home selling. Most sellers would rather wait until everything calms down in the fall.

If You Must Sell Your Home During the Summer

Not everybody can wait until fall, though. Sometimes people need to sell during the months of June, July and August. They might be transferred to a new job in another state or be experiencing other pressing “life” issues that could necessitate an immediate sale. Here are a few things you can do help attract a summertime buyer who might be leaning instead toward lying in a hammock and sipping lemonade.

  • Mow the Lawn Twice a WeekDon’t ask me why but grass grows faster in the summer. Don’t explain it to me, either, because I don’t want to think about photosynthesis or chlorophyll. Your hair grows faster in the summer, too. Every other lawn cutting, try mowing on the diagonal to add dimension and curb appeal.
  • Create Summer Curb Appeal Curb appeal is what makes fairy-tale land leap from the pages of a landscaping book and into your front yard. Curb appeal creates lust, happiness and contentment. Trim the bushes. Plant flowers. Scatter mulch. Paint your house number on the curb. Sweep the walk. Make your entrance welcoming and warm.
  • Decorate With Summer-Influenced Accents Look around your yard for color inspiration. White is a pure summer color. Vivid blues have a calming affect. You can sweep away the cobwebs of winter by replacing accent pillows or throw rugs with brighter, summer hues.
  • Bring the Light Inside If you have heavy drapes, remove them. They tend to make rooms look smaller anyway by encroaching on space. Pull all your blinds to the top and tape the strings underneath. Consider tie-backs if you don’t already have them for holding open lighter drapes / curtains. The only time you would leave blinds closed is if there was an undesirable element on the other side of the window, i.e. a neighbor’s trash can, and even then, open them slightly.
  • Go With the Flow of Summer Due to daylight savings in most states, it stays light outside longer. Some people like to skip out of work early on a Friday. You might find buyers are more interested in touring your home in twilight hours, just after the dinner hour.
  • Move the Home Outside Where I live, in Sacramento, it doesn’t rain in the summer. We can move perfectly good living room furniture to the back yard. Not only does moving out furniture free up more room inside the home, but it creates an outdoor living space with items you already own. It’s an illusion created for a buyer that says yes, you can own this lifestyle, too.
  • Deliver the Sparkle Gold or silver or brass or pewter? Doesn’t matter. Mix them, if you like. Old rules don’t apply. Metals are summery. Vases, picture frames, mirrors, utensils, goblets, hanging planters to garden gnomes.
  • Supply Summer Treats and Drinks For me, in California, summer means red-and-white checkered tablecloths, potato salad, hot dogs and mustard and roasted corn-on-the-cob.  Every part of the country has its own summer food traditions. In Maine, summer might mean juicy blueberries and clams. Fill the sink with ice cubes and chill bottled water for guests.
  • Utilize Natural Scent Sparingly Sometimes, people go hog wild with the air fresheners. Vanilla is a popular scent but it can overwhelm sensitive noses. Try filling the air with natural fragrances such as those from cut roses or honeysuckle vines.
  • Control the Air Temperature The only thing worse than a stuffy room on a hot day is a hot room. Circulate air. Even if you have to place floor fans about the home, keep the air moving. Turn down the AC to a notch below your comfort zone if the air outside is hotter than your comfort zone. Not so cold that your visitor’s arm hair stands up. But chilly enough that they don’t want to go back outside.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Compliments of Elizabeth Weintraub, DRE # 00697006, is a Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate in Sacramento, California.[gravityform id=”13″ name=”Have a question or comment?”]

 

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OC Home Prices Continue Upward in May

June 26, 2014 By Roy Hernandez Leave a Comment

May sales chartHome prices continue upward. Equity home sales near 90 % all home sales.

LOS ANGELES (June 23) – Higher home values continued to fuel more equity home sales, which have made up more than 80 percent of all home sales for the past 11 consecutive months.  Meanwhile, pending home sales fell in May as investors pulled out of the market due to higher home prices, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) said today.

Distressed housing market data:

• The share of equity sales – or non-distressed property sales – rose further in May, rising to 89.2 percent, up from 88.4 percent in April.  Equity sales have been rising steadily again since the beginning of this year.  May marks the 11th straight month that equity sales have been more than 80 percent of total sales. Equity sales made up 78 percent of sales in May 2013.

• The combined share of all distressed property sales continued to decline in May, primarily due to a drop in REO sales. The share of distressed property sales was down from 11.6 percent in April to 10.8 percent in May.  Distressed sales continued to be down by more than 50 percent from a year ago, when the share was 22 percent.

• Twenty-seven of the 41 reported counties showed a month-to-month decrease in the share of distressed sales, with 11 of the counties recording in the single-digits, including Alameda, Marin, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties — all of which registered a share of five percent or less.

• Of the distressed properties, the share of short sales dropped to levels last observed in late 2007 at 5.6 percent, down from 5.9 percent in April.  May’s figure was nearly a third of the 14 percent recorded in May 2013.

• The share of REO sales fell in May to 4.7 percent, down from 5.3 percent in April and from 7.6 percent in May 2013.

• The supply of inventory increased for equity sales and REO sales in May.  The Unsold Inventory Index for equity sales edged up from 3.6 months in April to 3.7 months in May, and from 2.3 months in April to 2.4 months in May for REO sales.  The supply of short sales dipped from 4.4 months in May to 4.3 months in April.

Pending home sales data:

• California pending home sales fell in May, with the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)* dropping 3.4 percent from a revised 114.1 in April to 110.1 in May, based on signed contracts.

• Pending sales were down 10.6 percent from the revised 123.2 index recorded in May 2013.  The year-over-year decline in the PHSI was the first double-digit decline in three months.  Pending home sales are forward-looking indicators of future home sales activity, providing information on the future direction of the market.

Charts (click link to open):

• Pending sales compared with closed sales.
• Historical trend in the share of equity sales compared with distressed sales.
• Closed housing sales in May by sales type (equity, distressed).
• Housing supply of REOs, short sales, and equity sales in May.
• A historical trend of REO, short sale, and equity sales housing supply.
• Year-to-year change in sales by property type.

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Brea North Hills Beauty!

June 19, 2014 By Roy Hernandez Leave a Comment

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Beautiful Lower Raymond Hills Home

June 14, 2014 By Roy Hernandez Leave a Comment

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Mortgage Rates Falling, So Where Are Home Buyers?

June 11, 2014 By Roy Hernandez Leave a Comment

Mortgage rates have fallen close to their lowest levels in nearly a year, but housing demand hasn’t budged much yet.

Freddie Mac FMCC -1.36% reported Thursday that the average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rose to 4.14% this week, up from 4.12% last week but down from 4.4% just two months ago. This puts rates at roughly the same level seen in late October 2013 and again last June, when rates were zipping up as investors braced for an end to the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying programs.

But even with low rates, mortgage applications have been soft, according to a separate report from the Mortgage Bankers Association, a sign of still muted demand for home loans.

What’s going on?

First, a longer view helps. True, mortgage rates are low—as low as they’ve been in almost 12 months. But in the same way that shoppers may not be lured by “low prices” at a department store that is always advertising a sale, mortgage rates at 4.1% may not be seen as a steal by buyers who lived with rates that were even lower for all of 2012 and the first half of 2013—especially considering that prices have moved higher.

Put differently, which change is more dramatic—a decline in interest rates from 5% to 3.5% over the two years beginning in February 2011 or the decline from 4.5% in January to 4.1% in May?

Given the time it takes for home purchases to come together and the fact that the decision to purchase a home isn’t purely rate-driven—buyers also must weigh what’s for sale, their family and job situation, etc.—it could take a while to see what effect, if any, the recent drop in interest rates has had on demand.

So do rates really matter? At the margins, yes. They’re a key component of a borrower’s monthly payment. And often the first conversation between a real-estate agent and a potential buyer—”How much are you willing to spend?”—can be influenced quite a bit by mortgage rates, provided the buyer isn’t paying entirely in cash.

What does this payment picture look like right now? The monthly payment on the median-priced U.S. home fell from $673 in February 2011 to $552 in September 2012 as interest rates fell. Interest rates stayed low through May 2013, but the average payment rose to $586 as home prices ticked up. (These calculations assume a 20% down payment on the national median home value as calculated by Zillow).

After interest rates jumped last summer, that average payment bounced to $674 in September 2013. Rising prices and, especially, higher rates eroded the affordability gains of the previous 2½ years in a matter of months. Payments haven’t budged much since then. Modest declines in interest rates have offset modest gains in home prices.

Some look at this and say: wait a minute, a 4.5% mortgage is still an insanely good deal. Why would a rise in rates to levels that are still quite low hurt housing demand? One possible explanation: the overall level of rate matters over the long run, but the speed with which rates rose last year could have dented demand in the short run.

Several economists have argued recently that mortgage rates increases played an important role in last year’s sales slowdown. In part, that’s because activity received a larger boost when mortgage rates were falling from 2011 to 2013 than previously anticipated, wrote Goldman Sachs economists Sven Jari Stehn and David Mericle in a recent report.

The Goldman analysis suggests that the slide in mortgage rates between 2011 and 2013 increased residential investment—the primary measure of housing’s contribution to GDP—by 5 percentage points. “As this tailwind dissipates going forward, the trend in housing activity might be somewhat lower than previously assumed,” they write.

Last year’s mortgage rate increase accounts for nearly half of the difference in expected housing growth and the lower, actual growth, according to a separate analysis published last week by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

This isn’t to say that the cold winter and the rate jump are the only reasons housing has slowed down. Low rates and prices may have spurred the release of pent-up demand throughout 2012, as home prices began to rise. This one-time benefit, together with aggressive home purchase by investors (also a temporary phenomenon), could have given false signals about the true health of the demand side of the market in 2012 and 2013.

Moreover, incomes have showed little growth, meaning that it will be harder for more buyers to buy homes if prices continue to rise absent some gains in wages or even bigger declines in financing costs. Sales are also being restrained by low levels of homes for sale, which is pushing prices higher. Some would-be buyers don’t have enough equity to sell their current home, while others have high levels of student debt.

WSJ by Nick Timiraos

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Remodeled 4 Bedroom Brea Beauty

June 11, 2014 By Roy Hernandez Leave a Comment

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1000 Stanford Ave., Fullerton, CA.92831

June 7, 2014 By Roy Hernandez Leave a Comment

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3 reasons right now is the best time to buy a home

May 27, 2014 By Roy Hernandez Leave a Comment

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The advantage is on the buyer side….

There has never been a better time to buy a home this year.

And yet despite three major advantages for homebuyers, sales so far have been slow.

Buying is cheaper than renting in most markets. And with mortgage activity down, originators, one would think, would be bending over backwards for applicants.

More people want to be homeowners, even younger buyers. A recent Fannie Mae survey of younger renters and buyers finds that though most younger renters prefer owning, many of them may stay renters longer due to insufficient financial capability and/or preparation. They don’t want to be renters – 90% would prefer to be homeowners.

Additionally, according to the latest quarterly report from the Federal Housing Finance Agency, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are reducing the money set aside to cushion any blow to their business, making it fair to say this is the result of the government-sponsored enterprises betting on a continued housing recovery.

There are three reasons this may be the best time to buy a home. (Click the next page below to see the list)

1) Mortgage rates are at six-month lows

Mortgage rates in the first week of May fell once again and this time to the lowest level since Nov. 7, 2013.

The latest Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey recorded an average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage of 4.21% for the week ending May 8, continuing to fall from 4.29% a week ago, but up from 3.42% a year earlier.

“Mortgage rates continued moving down following the decline in 10-year Treasury yields after a dismal report on real GDP growth in the first quarter,” Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist with Freddie Mac, said.

2) Home price growth is slowing

According to CoreLogic’s (CLGX) March HPI index, home prices rose year-over-year for 25 months straight in March.

Also, existing home inventory is increasing. Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, grew 11.1% in March from one year prior.

This is not too far off the February 12.2%, January 12% and December 11% rise over the past three months, respectively.

Looking ahead, the CoreLogic HPI forecast indicates that home prices, including distressed sales, are projected to increase 0.8% month over month from March 2014 to April 2014 and by 6.7% from March 2014 to March 2015.

3) Most housing markets have recovered

Fifty-nine metros have fully recovered from the last housing market crash, and 300 saw year-over-year gains, according to an index of markets put together by the National Association of Home Builders/First American.

The nationwide economic score rose slightly to 0.88 from a revised April reading of 0.87.

This means that based on current permit, price and employment data, the nationwide average is running at 88% of normal economic and housing activity. The index showed an overall reading of 0.82 a year ago.
“Our builder members tell us they are starting to see more optimism in the field,” said NAHB chairman Kevin Kelly, a home builder and developer from Wilmington, Del. “Mortgage rates are low, home prices are affordable and with the harsh winter behind us our latest surveys show builders are feeling more bullish about future sales conditions.”

Credit and affordability issues remain, but this may be the best time for the buyer who is on the fence.
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Big RV Lot For Sale in Fullerton

May 6, 2014 By Roy Hernandez

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Like a brand new home Fullerton!

April 25, 2014 By Roy Hernandez

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