First Time Buyers

Rebecca Williamson

Are All Short Sale Buyers Cash Buyers?

How Do Buyers Finance Short Sales? In our last post, we showed you how buyers financed bank owned homes in San Mateo County. This post, I’d like to talk about the differences in how San Mateo County home buyers purchase short sales, or pre-foreclosures. Fewer All Cash Buyers in the Short Sale Market Savvy San [...]

Rebecca Williamson

All Foreclosures are Bought with Cash?

All Foreclosure Buyers are Cash Buyers Last week, we got a question from a reader who had been pre-approved for an FHA loan and her Realtor told her that she can forget buying bank owned homes because all bank owned home buyers were cash buyers. Are All Bank Owned San Mateo Homes Bought with Cash? [...]

Raymond Stoklosa

Local Issues that Will Impact Buyer’s Satisfaction

Local Issues Impact How Much You’ll Like Living in Your San Mateo Home In San Mateo, as in any market, there are a variety of local issues that can have a significant impact on the buyer’s satisfaction with their purchase. Here are a few of the considerations unique to San Mateo County that you should [...]

Raymond Stoklosa

Tips for Women Home Buyers

Tips for Women Home Buyers in San Mateo Single and unmarried women comprised more than one-third of the growth in home ownership since 1994 according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. In San Mateo, California, women make up an increasing share of middle-income households as more than one in five home buyers are [...]

Chris Williamson

Big Banks May Stop Pre-Approving Buyers and Why You Should Watch Out

Lenders Trying to Find their Footing with New Financing Regulations Now that the new good faith estimate and regulations are in effect, banks and other lending institutions are still trying to digest and implement the new changes.  Each and every lender has interpreted the new regulations differently, which means with every lender you will get [...]