When it comes to appraising and developing appropriate responses to offers on your Huntington Beach home, I’m there to offer counsel and guidance. Even so, you are the ultimate decision maker. Especially for Huntington Beach homeowners without previous selling experience, becoming familiar with some practical pointers for home selling negotiations is well worth doing. Huntington Beach sellers can find one rich source at the National Association of Realtors® web site. This month’s World Series finale undoubtedly inspired the title for a list of home selling negotiation pitfalls. Published the morning of Houston’s Game 7 victory, it dealt with errors in home selling negotiations. It was subtitled “Negotiation Hardball Fouls.”

  Although the…

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More than half of U.S. homeowners expect their home’s value to rise in the coming year. For Costa Mesa real estate watchers who track public sentiment as a market indicator, the news comes as a welcome addition to other reports of rising consumer optimism regarding the economy as a whole.

  The finding comes from a national telephone and online survey conducted earlier this month by the Rasmussen Reports organization. It signals an acceleration in a year-long trend of rising expectations among U.S. homeowners. A year earlier, fewer than 40% had predicted that their own home values would rise in the coming year. In this latest report, that number has increased to 53%—a leap of 12% over the March finding. According to Rasmussen summary, this…

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   Ask a typical Newport Beach consumer to name the two most important purchases people make, and you’ll almost always hear “new house” and “new car.” They’re often lumped together, but they shouldn’t be. They aren’t all that similar.

  The rationale for buying a new car is clear: automotive technology advances nearly every model year, improving fuel economy and safety. Add in that intoxicating new car smell, and the preference is all but automatic. Used cars may be economical, but as for the thrill factor: nyah!

  Similarly, when the question is put to a cross-section of typical Americans, new homes get the nod over existing ones. The percentage of those who “strongly” or “somewhat” prefer buying a newly built home weighs in at 41%. That’s a…

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Last weekend’s regular California news should have been promoting all the usual upbeat feature stories about the onset of football season, the start of a brand new school year, the finals of tennis’ last grand slam tournament and the like—but Fountain Valley readers would have gotten eye strain trying to find any of them. Instead, the dark clouds brought by Hurricanes Irma and Harvey cast dense shadows across the region and the nation’s news. It was certain, too, that even after the terror of their actual passages had subsided, the fallout would continue to reverberate—expensively—for a very long time.

What was covered was how the prayers of millions not directly affected were being answered by many thousands of Good Samaritan volunteers.…

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  Open floor plan in Costa Mesa! - $839,000.00
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Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Year Built: 1969 Lot Size: 5760 Square Footage: 2,190 Agent Name: Larry Weichman Broker: The L3 MLS #: PW17116506 Price: $839,000.00 3305 Alabama Circle   Costa Mesa, CA 92626 View Map View More Photos Join The L3 Our Concept Our Agents Our Other Listings
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Quiet double cul-de-sac at the end of tract with minimal traffic. Green belt with access to bike trail 4 miles to the…

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1 year ago we stepped out of our comfort zones to create The L3 Real Estate.

The mission was to provide an experience unlike we had ever seen in this industry and it is exciting

to have seen it come to life in such a phenomenal way.

We are proud to finally unveil our film we have spent months to create.

The L3 is a family rooted in the culture of the Orange County Lifestyle and this is our concept piece

#TheL3 #Location #Luxury #Lifestyle #WeAreL3 

 

 

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This year we’re fortunate indeed: the calendar has cooperated with the spirit of the occasion to give Independence Day its proper import. With Newport Beach’s Fourth of July festivities falling on a Tuesday, we avoid the vexing problem that crops up every time July 4 falls on a weekend. Since nobody wants the extra day of picnicking and parading to be confused with the ho-hum regular weekend days off, the powers that be have to arbitrarily reassign July 4 observances to the following Monday (or previous Friday, if the Fourth hits on a Saturday). 

This year, with the Fourth happening on the 4th, all is well. For convenience’s sake, most everybody opts for a four-day long Fourth—so Monday the 3rd gets a star turn due entirely to its lucky proximity to…

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  Last week, following the Fed’s hike in the rates they charge banks, you might expect a matching rise in mortgage rates for Fountain Valley home buyers and refi applicants. If the experts are right, that’s far from a done deal.

The Washington Post headline said it all:

“Mortgage rates move slightly higher but could be headed back down again.” 

Mortgage News Daily reported the same: a slight nudge upward, then back down:

“By holding flat, rates remain very close to the best levels seen in more than 8 months.”

The consensus was all but unanimous, with even Freddie Mac predicting that “mortgage rates are likely to follow” Treasury yields—that is, downward.

When the Fed raises the rates banks must pay, it’s only logical to expect the move…

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