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Lompoc Real Estate: Lompoc Condos For Sale & Market Update

10/07/2010
Buyer Info, Lompoc / Vandenberg Village

Are you in the market for a condo in the Lompoc CA area? (93436) There are currently 37 condos (and PUDs) listed for sale in the Lompoc real estate market. The average asking price is about $152,000 and sellers are…

Santa Maria Real Estate: Tips for Buying Santa Maria Short Sales

10/06/2010
Buyer Info, Santa Maria, Short Sale Info

1) Be prepared for an “as-is” purchase. Many times there is deferred maintenance on short sale listings. Often owners in financial distress stop performing maintenance on the home either willfully and because they lack the funds. You can ask a short sale seller to make repairs, but often they are unable or unwilling to do so since they are losing their home. You can also approach the short sale lender and ask that they allow the cost of the repairs to be deducted from their “net” but often the answer will be no, even if the repairs are required by your lender in order to originate your new loan.

Santa Maria Real Estate: Tips for Buying Santa Maria Foreclosures

10/05/2010
Buyer Info, Foreclosure / Bank Owned (REO) Info, Santa Maria

1) For an “as-is” purchase – Banks don’t like to make repairs, and you will find that the Santa Maria real estate is littered with bank sellers who intend to make no repairs to their properties. This may even include situations where the property has been cited by the City of Santa Maria for violations of the municipal code.

Arroyo Grande Real Estate: Arroyo Grande Condo Market Update

10/04/2010
Buyer Info, Central Coast Real Estate

Are you in the market for a condo in the Arroyo Grande CA (93420)? There are currently 23 condos (and PUDs) listed for sale in the Arroyo Grande real estate market.

Pismo Beach Real Estate: Pismo Beach Condos For Sale & Market Update

10/03/2010
Buyer Info, Central Coast Real Estate

Are you in the market for a condo in the Pismo Beach CA (93449)? There are currently 40 condos (and PUDs) listed for sale in the Pismo Beach real estate market. The average price is about $733,000 and sellers are asking about $514 per square foot for condominiums.

Orcutt Real Estate: Orcutt Condos For Sale & Market Update

10/02/2010
Buyer Info, Santa Maria

Are you in the market for a condo in Orcutt CA (93455)? There are currently 57 condos listed for sale in the Orcutt real estate market. The average price is about $179,500 and sellers are asking about $132 per square foot for condominiums.

Santa Maria Real Estate – Santa Maria Condos For Sale & Market Update

10/01/2010
Buyer Info, Santa Maria

Are you in the market for a condo Santa Maria CA? There are currently 98 condos listed for sale in the Santa Maria real estate market. The average price is about $170,000 and sellers are asking about $124 per square foot for condominiums.

Snapshot 2010: Nipomo Foreclosures

09/30/2010
Central Coast Real Estate

There are 189 active and pending homes and condos in Nipomo. Of those 189 properties, 16 are foreclosures (8%) and 34 are short sales (17.9%). Looking back six months, there have been 122 sales in Nipomo with an average listing price of $440,781 and an average selling price of $429,203, so sellers are getting about 97.3% of their asking prices in Nipomo indicating that there is some bargaining room for buyers in the Nipomo real estate market.