Currently Santa Clara has 194 Notice of Defaults filled on properties. A notice of default gets filed on a property in Santa Clara County when the owner is behind on the mortgage by 2 or 3 months. This is the first stage of the foreclosure process referred to as pre-foreclosure.
In order remove [...]
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It’s no surprise that any newer developments in the Santa Clara County as of the past 5 years are going to experience a high number of Short Sales and REO or Bank Owned properties. Rivermark in Santa Clara is no exception.
Rivermark is a master planned community developed in 2002 by Lennar, Centex and Shea Homes [...]
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With the number of foreclosures skyrocketing in California in recent years, there is a lot of interest from would be buyers in purchasing bank owned properties which are also known as real estate owned or REOs.
What is a short sale?
What is a Short Sale?
Short sales occur when the value of the property is less than [...]
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California announced it’s own, $10,000 tax credit for any homeowner buying a new home between March 1, 2009 and March 1, 2010 regardless of whether they’re a first-time buyer or not. This comes on top of the federal first-time home buyer tax credit of $8,000 announced by the Obama administration as part of the federal [...]
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