Blog Profile / Lansner on Real Estate
| URL : | http://lansner.freedomblogging.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Real Estate / Local Market | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4162 | |
| Posts / Week: | 22.7 | |
| Archived Since: | November 16, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Eyeball 2013: Investors need to act fast
Rand Sperry is co-founder and CEO of Sperry Van Ness, a commercial real estate franchisor headquartered in Irvine. He’s our third guest for “Eyeball 2013!” This series is our holiday gift to you: Lansner on Real Estate’s seventh annual collection of outlooks on local real estate conditions! Us: What will be two or three key [...]Show More Summary
Slim inventory pushes OC home prices up 16%
Tight inventory is helping to force Orange County home shoppers to pay more, two reports show. The latest Orange County home inventory report from Steve Thomas and ReportsOnHousing.com — data as of Dec. 20 — shows just 3,254 homes listed for sale — down 61 percent from a year ago and the lowest number in [...]Show More Summary
Really? LA-OC home prices up 6.2% in October
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” Home prices in the Los Angeles-Orange County region increased from year-ago levels for a fourth consecutive month in October, rising 6.2 percent above October 2011 prices, the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index showed. It also was the eighth consecutive month-to-month increase [...]Show More Summary
LA-OC area sees biggest gain in home values
The value of homes in the Los Angeles-Orange County area jumped $122 billion in 2012, the biggest cumulative gain of any major metro area in the nation, the online real estate site Zillow reports. The gain boosted L.A.-O.C. home values to a combined total of $1.8 trillion, Zillow said. Nationwide, home values increased $1.35 trillion [...]Show More Summary
Former Realtor president eyes seller’s market in ’13
Dick Gaylord is a broker with RE/MAX Real Estate Specialists just across the Orange County boundary in Long Beach. He was the 2008 president of the National Association of Realtors. He’s our second guest for “Eyeball 2013!” This series is our holiday gift to you: Lansner on Real Estate’s seventh annual collection of outlooks on [...]Show More Summary
Really? Pet hotel charges $200 a night
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” $200-a-night luxury hotel room for pets — CNN Money This Mansion’s Bowling Alley Was a $1.45M Christmas Gift — Curbed A Year of ‘Inside Look’: Our Favorite Episodes — AOL Real Estate Top 10 Celebrity Real Estate Stories of 2012 — [...]Show More Summary
Eyeball 2013: Realtor eyes fragile recovery
Starting today, we launch Eyeball 2013, a daily look at the real estate market in the year ahead. For the next two weeks or so, we’ll have a different real estate expert weigh in on what we can expect in 2013. This is our holiday gift to you: Lansner on Real Estate’s seventh annual collection [...]
Home bidding wars turn ‘brutal’
When Tanya and Patrick Courchaine recently made an offer for $615,000 on a house in Anaheim Hills, they were up against 18 other buyers. The couple figured they’d have it in the bag. In addition to offering $40,000 over the asking price and a healthy down payment, they went the extra mile to promote themselves [...]Show More Summary
O.C. early Dec. home price up 16%
Orange County homebuying report for December — for the 22 business days ending December 7– show a median selling price for all residences of $464,000 — that is up 16% vs. a year ago. Higher prices didn’t slow buying. Total Orange County sales of 3,265 residences closed in the latest period — that is up [...]
Really? Survey finds first-time buyers on decline
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” Fewer first-time buyers — N.Y. Times U.S. housing builder index reflects a growing optimism — Fort Worth Star-Telegram Struggling homeowners may lose critical tax break in fiscal cliff talks — Washington Post Foreclosure crisis takes toll on renters — DSNews.com [...]Show More Summary
12 hot real estate stories in 2012
The housing market hit bottom. Homes for sale became scarce. Bidding wars turned epic. The nation’s major banks agreed to a pact aimed at eradicating mortgage and foreclosure abuses. Those were among the most significant real estate stories of 2012. Here’s a look back at those and other newsworthy developments of the past year. See [...]Show More Summary
Orange home on its own hilltop: $2.65 million
A 6,000-square-foot custom home perched high over the city of Orange boasts a distinct feature: It sits on its own hilltop. “This is the only (neighborhood) house that has a complete hill of its own,” said Hillary Thomas of Prudential California Realty, the listing agent. “They designed it with every window having a view, no [...]Show More Summary
Top 5 reasons to trim your palm trees
Leslie Sargent Eskildsen is an Orange County Realtor. She blogs about what she thinks Orange County homebuyers and sellers need to hear. Find her blog at whatagentsfeartellingyou.com. Is it just me, or do shaggy palm trees bug you, too? And now that we’re talking about them, you’ll start to see shaggy palm trees all over [...]Show More Summary
A crash course in real estate lingo
Leslie Sargent Eskildsen is an Orange County Realtor. She blogs about what she thinks Orange County homebuyers and sellers need to hear. Find her blog at whatagentsfeartellingyou.com. If Orange County Realtors sometimes seem like they are speaking a different language, they are. Here’s a short list of the most commonly used insider terms today – [...]Show More Summary
Analyst: Housing’s been naughty and nice
Veteran Southern California real estate analyst G.U. Krueger adds his commentary on the housing market to this blog in a spot we call “Thursday Morning Quarterback.” Here’s his latest installment. … ARCHIVE Santa is coming to town. “He’s making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who’s naughty or nice” in the housing market. [...]Show More Summary
Really? UBS admits monkeying with LIBOR
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” UBS Admits Rigging Rates in ‘Epic’ Plot — Wall Street Journal Leniency Denied, UBS Unit Admits Guilt in Rate Case — N.Y. Times Critics Say UBS Let Off Too Easy — Wall Street Journal Adoboli Fraud in UBS Recklessness Deflates Thatcher [...]Show More Summary
CoreLogic: Late mortgage payments down 30%
click on photos to enlarge The number of Orange County homeowners who were 90 days or more behind on their mortgage payments has fallen by nearly a third in the year ending in October, new figures from Irvine-based data firm CoreLogic show. As of October, just under 4 percent of Orange County borrowers were 90-plus [...]Show More Summary
Mortgage applications plummet
What’s happening with mortgage rates? We’ve asked Jeff Lazerson, of Mortgage Grader in Laguna Niguel, to give us his weekly take … RATE NEWS SUMMARY From Freddie Mac’s weekly survey rates the average 15-year fixed rate dropped to 2.65 percent and.7 point from last week’s 2.66 percent and.6 point. The 30-year fixed climbed [...]Show More Summary
Really? B of A bad loans hit $64 billion
Real estate news and views from around the globe that make you go, “Really?” Bank of America Delinquent Loans Mean Losses — Bloomberg US housing starts slowed to 861K in November — Associated Press Has The Fed Saved The Housing Market? — Zacks Biggest Celebrity Real Estate Deals of 2012 — AOL Real Estate 19 [...]Show More Summary
Conflicting signals for real estate?
Homebuilder confidence is way up … but so are recent late payments on first mortgages, after a long downward trend. What’s up? READ MORE Conflicting signals for real estate? is a post from: Lansner on Real Estate Conflicting signals for real estate? is a post from: Lansner on Real Estate