Posts Tagged ‘home buyer’

Raymond Stoklosa

What to Expect in the Final Walk Through of Your San Mateo County Home Purchase

You may remember from our post, 14 Steps to Buying a San Mateo County Home – A Guide for First Time Home Buyers, that step #13 was ‘Perform the Final Walk Through.’ What exactly is the walk through? Well… Typically when you buy a resale home in San Mateo County, you’re buying the property in [...]

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Afraid to Buy a Home in the Current San Mateo Housing Market? Don’t Be!

The media is full of reports about the decline and fall of the housing market and the mortgage meltdown, but they aren’t necessarily telling the local story. Let’s look at the real estate market from a different vantage point. Here are some interesting statistics: Homes are still selling and about six million of us are [...]

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Having Trouble Selling Your San Mateo County Home?

I’ve been talking a lot lately to buyers on this blog. The fact is that it’s a good time to be a buyer and not such a great time to be a seller. That said, you can still sell your home at a good price, in a reasonable time frame if you put in a [...]

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Know the Seller’s Bottom Line to Get a Better Deal on Santa Clara and San Mateo Real Estate

In the boom periods of the housing market, and especially areas of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties like Menlo Park, Burlingame, Palo Alto and Cupertino, the demand for homes was extraordinary high while the supply of homes for sale was critically limited. Simultaneous multiple offers and aggressive over-bidding was commonplace. Selling a house more [...]

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What is an appraisal and why do I need one?

The appraisal is a vital part of the real estate purchase process and one of the least understood aspects of real estate. Within the context of the home purchase and sale, an appraisal is a risk analysis for the lender. The buyer’s lender uses an appraisal to determine whether there is sufficient value in the [...]