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San Diego REO Listings Offered by Ghosts
by Roberta Murphy I’ll never understand the process by which lenders choose to list their San Diego REO’s and foreclosures. Some are listed by normal real estate agents, but more and more...
Downtown Oceanside: Moving Up
by Roberta Murphy Late yesterday afternoon at a Carlsbad Cinco de Mayo fest, I met two wonderful ladies who had spent the last 20 years with their families living in downtown Oceanside. Their kids ...
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 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...
A San Diego Short Sale Solution
A Solution and Alternative to San Diego Short Sales and Foreclosures...
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 an...
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...
The Gates of San Diego
Wendy Barbour is a recent addition to the Murphy Group at Villa Sotheby’s International Realty. She brings with her an impressive real estate resume and extensive knowledge of San Diego’s ...
La Costa Villas: Great Investment Bonus
by Roberta Murphy Investors are moving back into the San Diego real estate market with impatient wallets. They are seeking well-priced foreclosures, pre-negotiated short sales–and real estate in...
San Diego a Bargain for Foreign Investors
by Roberta Murphy How I wish I were buying San Diego real estate with Euros –or Loonies or Yen or Yuan. As a European, Canadian, Japanese or Chinese real estate investor, I could be plucking of...
New FHA Loan Limits for San Diego County
by Roberta Murphy California is privileged to have HUD release their new FHA loan limits just ahead of the rest of the country, who will get their own announcements tomorrow. These new temporary limit...
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 ...
San Deigo and San Deago Real Estate
by Roberta Murphy This is just a late night musing and grumble. For years, I have marveled at Google and Yahoo’s search engine ability to direct misspelled cities and other destinations to the r...
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...
Are You the High Bidder for Your San Diego Listing?
by Roberta Murphy The San Diego real estate market is abuzz with talk about real estate auctions and the enormous turnouts they are generating. Inventory is being quickly absorbed by competing and hu...
San Diego Realtors Seeing Double…Offers
by Roberta Murphy The San Diego real estate market has been swirling with dismal reports about short sales, foreclosures and inventory gluts. The markets are particularly bad in San DIego suburbs like...
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...
Argyle Steakhouse: Aviara Fine Dining
by Roberta Murphy The Argyle Steakhouse at the Aviara Four Seasons Resort in Carlsbad, CA has long been a family favorite. The food is sublime, the views are exquisite and the ambiance is casually e...
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...
