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Recent Posts Tagged With 'oceanside'

• Downtown Oceanside: Moving Up

  Posted on Tuesday May 6th, 2008 at 14:32 in art, condos, dining, downtown, farmer's market, festival, food, holidays, homes, museum, oceanside, real estate

  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 ...

• Should I Wait to Buy a Home in San Diego?

  Posted on Tuesday May 6th, 2008 at 00:37 in acorn, bank of america, buyer, chase mortgage, financing, loan, mortgage, oceanside, Options, questions, real estate, real estate news

  by Roberta Murphy A Zillow questioner asks if he or she should wait to buy a home in San Diego until the market levels out. It is a question that seemed to beg an answer from me, if only because we ar...

• Want to Search for San Diego Foreclosures?

  Posted on Wednesday April 30th, 2008 at 10:57 in aviara, carlsbad, del mar, encinitas, foreclosure, home, house, la costa, listing, oceanside, rancho santa fe, real estate

  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

  Posted on Tuesday April 29th, 2008 at 10:47 in carlsbad, coronado, del mar, encinitas, fha, first time home buyers, foreclosures, homes, loans, mortgage, oceanside, real estate

  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

  Posted on Monday April 28th, 2008 at 09:27 in carlsbad, chula vista, del mar, Economy, encinitas, escondido, foreclosures, la jolla, market, oceanside, real estate, real estate news

  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...

• Encinitas Street Fair this Weekend

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 20:24 in beach, beer, coaster, downtown, encinitas, events, fair, garden, home, karl strauss, oceanside, real estate

  by Roberta Murphy If I can tear myself away from Oceanside Terraces real estate this weekend, you will probably find me wandering around in comfortable shoes, eating fun food and shopping for funky je...

• Buy from Me and I’ll Buy Your San Diego Home

  Posted on Wednesday April 23rd, 2008 at 12:38 in aviara, buying, carlsbad, commission, del mar, encinitas, home, la costa, mls, oceanside, purchase, real estate

  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...

• Two Income Tax Tips for San Diego Filers

  Posted on Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 20:04 in capital gains, carlsbad, deductions, forgiven debt, homeowners, homes, IRS, mess, mortgage, mortgage news, oceanside, provisions

  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

  Posted on Sunday March 30th, 2008 at 23:30 in custom, driveway, entry, estates, gates, homes, luxury, oceanside, real estate, residences, row homes, san diego luxury homes

  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 ...

• The Gates of San Diego

  Posted on Sunday March 30th, 2008 at 20:04 in chris barrett, elegance, fenceworks, gated, gates, home, luxury, luxury homes, mansion, neighborhood, oceanside, rancho santa fe

  Wendy Barbour is a recent addition to the Murphy Group at Villa Sothebys International Realty. She brings with her an impressive San Diego real estate resume and extensive knowledge of San Diegos urba...

• San Diego’s Newest Urban Luxury: Oceanside Terraces

  Posted on Thursday March 27th, 2008 at 07:52 in beach, camp pendleton, condo, high rise, highrise, home, luxury, mid rise, midrise, new, oceanside, real estate

  by Roberta Murphy For 11 days straight, we have been working in a makeshift sales office at Oceanside Terraces, the new luxury midrise residence in downtown Oceanside. The office consists of a small t...

• San Diego Incomes: A Few Surprises

  Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 08:15 in about, carlsbad, carlsbad real estate, coronado real estate, del mar real estate, demographics, encinitas real estate, escondido, homes, income, la jolla real estate, median

  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 Diego Realtors Seeing Double…Offers

  Posted on Thursday February 7th, 2008 at 18:14 in buyers, eastlake, foreclosures, homes, lake san marcos, market, oceanside, otay mesa, rancho santa fe, real estate, realtor, realtors

  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

  Posted on Tuesday February 5th, 2008 at 09:52 in carlsbad, condos, coronado, del mar, downtown, encinitas, high rise, homes, la jolla, medical care, mid rise, ocean

  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...

• It Never Rains in California? (It Just Pours)

  Posted on Sunday January 6th, 2008 at 12:19 in alpine, carlsbad, coronado, del mar, downtown san diego, encinitas, fallbrook, julian, la jolla, oceanside, qualcomm stadium, rain

  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...