LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The federal government is doling out as much as $8,000 to people who bought a home recently. Sounds simple, right? But collecting on that money isn't proving to be all that straightforward for some taxpayers.
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The recent earthquake(s) in Japan and the devastation they caused may have reminded you of the need to have a plan in the case of a similar event happening in California.
We can just cross our fingers and hope that it won’t happen here anytim

If you drive through any neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona you will see a few homes with solar panels on the roof. Your first thought may be “why doesn’t every home here have them?” After all, this is a place that averages over 330 d

The most cost effective way to market a business is by word-of-mouth referrals.  People want to help others, and if they have received a great product or service, they will be more than happy to pass on their experience to their friends, family

(OC Register) Short sales, in which properties are legally sold for less than what’s owed on the mortgage as long as the lender agrees, have been on the upswing this year. The DRE says it’s also been alerted to fraud surrounding short sal

The bill the governor signed last week provides $100 million in credits for the purchase of existing homes and $100 million in credits for the purchase of new homes. To make sure that credits are not left on the table, the bill lets the Franchise Tax

(Source: OC Register) According to DataQuick’s monthly report for Orange County housing for February.The number of defaults — first step to foreclosure — was 1,775 – that’s +13.8% vs. the previous month and -35.3% vs. a year ago.

(OC Register) The latest O.C. home inventory report from Steve Thomas at Altera Real Estate says that demand for local homes — new escrows open past 30 days) has fallen 6% (190 homes) to 3,054 in the past two weeks. Thomas remarks: “The storyline rem

In a review of the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). Keep in mind that all of the charts in this series of posts are based on the seasonally-adjusted data provided by S&P. For the full source data behind this post, plus non-se

(Source: Realty Times) If only the President’s foreclosure-prevention plan worked as well as “cash for clunkers”. But it hasn’t. When the Administration announced the Making Homes Affordable plan in February of 2009, officials said they hoped it wo