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Want to Search for San Diego Foreclosures?
by Roberta Murphy San Diego foreclosures and bank REO’s are quickly becoming the top request among many of our San Diego home buyers–so we decided to add a tool that we could use as well. ...
San Diego First Time Home Buyers are Winners
by Roberta Murphy We have rediscovered the joy of working with San Diego’s first time home buyers. It’s not that we avoided them in the past, it was just the pricey nature of San DiegoR...
San Diego Real Estate Foreclosures Hit (Some) New Highs
by Roberta Murphy San Diego is full of micro-climates, so why not acknowledge its micro-economies as well? Overall, the San Diego real estate market looks pretty gloomy: There were 3666 foreclosures i...
Buy from Me and I’ll Buy Your San Diego Home
by Roberta Murphy You’ll really buy my San Diego Home? It’s an old come on–and a persistent temptation. You’ve seen the sign riders all over the the San Diego real estate marke...
San Diego Wi-Fi Hot Spots
by Roberta Murphy As a North County San Diego real estate broker, I often carry a laptop when when showing San Diego homes to clients. And so do many of our real estate clients. These days, we avoid...
San Diego Wi-Fi Hot Spots
by Roberta Murphy As a North County San Diego real estate broker, I often carry a laptop when when showing San Diego homes to clients. And so do many of our real estate clients. These days, we avoid...
Two Income Tax Tips for San Diego Filers
by Roberta Murphy Income tax filing is just around the corner, but here are a couple of tax tips owners may want to keep on hand: 1. Congress, reacting to the subprime mortgage mess (in San Diego and...
Lower Your San Diego Real Estate Taxes in 3 Easy Steps
by Roberta Murphy Many clients from the past few years have been calling, wondering if it might be worth the effort to get their San Diego property taxes reduced. Property values have dropped signifi...
San Diego Incomes: A Few Surprises
by Roberta Murphy As a San Diego Realtor, I am frequently asked about income demographics in San Diego County–and find it handy to have a chart for reference. The one below provides more than a ...
Rancho Santa Fe Real Estate Market: Partly Sunny
by Roberta Murphy San Diego’s high end coastal North County is surviving the real estate storm fairly well–at least compared to the rest of San Diego County. We’ve had a surge of buy...
Carlsbad FSBO’s and Short Sales: Uh Oh
by Eve Sieminski and Roberta Murphy Eve and I spent the afternoon studying For Sale by Owner (FSBO) sites and researching these Carlsbad listings and Carlsbad real estate through our local SANDICOR ML...
Homes for San Diego Baby Boomers: The Wish List
by Roberta Murphy Baby Boomers have never been the silent sort, and more and more we are hearing their wishes in unison. Disclaimer: The San Diego real estate market is not like Las Vegas, or Tucson o...
WCR to Unveil California Blog Network
by Roberta Murphy It’s fun to peer into the crystal ball and try to divine what fortunes lie ahead. It also helps when you have a visionary providing some tips and guidance. Pat Kitano and K...
It Never Rains in California? (It Just Pours)
by Roberta Murphy We braced ourselves in San Diego for the torrential downpour and the high winds that have battered San Francisco, Sacramento and Santa Barbara. Instead, at least in the coastal area...
Things to Do with Kids in San Diego
by Roberta Murphy Our family spent many of its early years in Big Bear Lake, California. The mountains were wonderful, and our three sons enjoyed seven years of ski racing, mountain biking, tree house...
San Diego Luxury Home Sales to Benefit from Bonuses?
by Scott Murphy Many top executives at large investment banking firms will be depositing some jumbo bonuses by the end of this month–and I can’t help but wonder if San Diego real estate w...
San Diego Loan Fraud: Kickbacks and Consequences
Opportunities for real estate fraud couldn’t have been more ripe than in 2005 and 2006, when real estate prices started to quietly soften–especially in fertile markets like San Diego, Phoenix, Las...
