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San Diego Foreclosure: Back to 2002?
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | July 20th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
by Roberta Murphy This was a morning of discovery and indigestion digestion. We have seen San Diego real estate prices plummet in the suburban communities of Chula VIsta, National City, San Marcos, eastern Oceanside and Fallbrook. After all, these read more
San Diego Real Estate: Short Sale, Foreclosure or Deed in Lieu?
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | July 1st 2008 by Roberta Murphy
San Diego’s mortgage meltdown has left many stressed and relocating homeowners wondering what to do. Should they just let their home go to foreclosure? Should they see if their lender will accept a deed in lieu of foreclosure? Or should they read more
How to Delay a San Diego Foreclosure
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | June 7th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
by Roberta Murphy A looming foreclosure weighed heavily on our North San Diego County clients. Their custom home, purchased at the height of the San Diego real estate market in 2005, had plummeted in value. Unable to pay mortgage payments of $8000 pe read more
San Diego Real Estate Commissions (Shhh!)
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | May 30th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
by Roberta Murphy It’s a taboo of sorts to discuss real estate commissions, not because it’s an impolite topic (like discussing one’s salary or bowel habits at a social gathering), but rather, it could land a real estate licensee in read more
San Diego REO Listings Offered by Ghosts
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | May 12th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
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 these REO’s (bank-owned properties) are lis read more
Should I Wait to Buy a Home in San Diego?
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | May 6th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
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 are personally struggling with that very issue as I read more
San Diego Real Estate Defaults: How to Avoid Deficiency Judgments
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | March 1st 2008 by Roberta Murphy
by Roberta Murphy I am a huge believer in individual responsibility and paying my own way in life–even if its the price of an expensive mistake. But what about San Diego area homeowners who absolutely cannot hang onto their homes any longer? Wh read more
Carlsbad FSBO’s and Short Sales: Uh Oh
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | February 18th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
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 MLS. The results are very interesting. Some casual o read more
Are You the High Bidder for Your San Diego Listing?
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | February 16th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
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 hungry investors, who bid against one another hoping read more
San Diego Real Estate: Per Bob Dyson
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | February 12th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
by Roberta Murphy Bob Dyson has a voice worth hearing–especially as it relates to Southern California real estate. Dyson is owner-broker of VIlla Sotheby’s International Realty in Del Mar, CA (which may be San Diego’s fastest-growi read more
San Diego Realtors Seeing Double…Offers
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | February 7th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
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 Eastlake, Otay Mesa, San Marcos and OceansideR read more

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