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Here's a "raw report" press release from the state's Department of Housing and Community Development:
CalHome Program Workshop to be Held in Visalia
Sacramento, CA – California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) will hold a workshop in Visalia on Wednesday,...
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Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek.
No need to grab a map to find Snowdrop Drive and Rose Petal Street. (Homes on those streets recently sold.) We’ve done the work for you.
The map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield from March 17 to March 23, color-coded by sales...
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Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek.
No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Loon and Memory courts. (Homes on those streets recently sold.) We’ve done the work for you.
This map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield March 1 to March 9, color-coded by sales...
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Here's a "raw report" press release from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Read it and weep.
Want more? Click here for the full report and fact sheets on every state.
Or click on the funky blue rectangle to the left for the PDF sheet on California.
Washington, D.C. — One in...
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Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek.
No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Crescent Ridge Street and Meadow Ridge Avenue. (Homes on those streets recently sold.) We’ve done the work for you.
See the map here.
This map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield...
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Everyone's on this story ...
The Today Show had a segment this morning on foreclosures and possible deals at real estate auctions.
Check out some of the coverage here.
(They also have some videos.)
They all have a useful list of warnings on the 10 mistakes home sellers make.
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Click on the blue icons and check out the CRAZY purple lines on these graphs.
Foreclosures were at a record-high again in March, according to the latest statistics from the Kern County Recorder’s office.
The county recorded 638 property foreclosures last month — a tally exceeding...
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I was listening to All Things Considered on March 30, 2008 and I heard an interesting exchange. The usual economic truism — as demand goes down, the prices go down— doesn't seem to apply in the current troubled housing market. Many homeowners prefer not to sell their home than to take...
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Today a colleague pointed out a CNN story about people so desperate, feeling trapped by overwhelming mortgage payments and facing foreclosure, that they burn their own homes.
I was so shocked that I tracked down the report.
Watch it here.
CNN reported this alarming statistic: Last year 14...
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There was another bash in a vacant Bakersfield home this weekend.
This time, the home was in the 15600 block of Chateau Montelena Drive, southeast of Rosedale Highway and Heath Road.
Sheriff's deputies arrested 16 adults and cited 10 kids.
That makes three instances of parties in unoccupied...
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The Bakersfield metropolitan market, which includes ZIP codes 93301 through 93314, had 1,946 single-family home foreclosures in 2007.
That's according to a report put together by the Kern County Recorder's office using data from First American Real Quest that reporter Gretchen Wenner got her...
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Our Money Talks blog is the best place to search for local stories, reports and observations on the local housing market and Kern business in general.
Here's a few topics for discussion on this popular blog:
Free counseling for those going through the foreclosure process will be offered Friday....
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Self-Help Enterprises will offer free foreclosure counseling at 2 p.m. Friday.
It will be at Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Kern & Tulare Counties, 5300 Lennox Ave., Suite 200.
Reservations are requested by calling (888) 412-0828. Spanish-speaking counselors will also be available.
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Here's Gretchen Wenner's latest report on the market:
Foreclosures reached another new high in Kern last month, according to the latest report from the Kern County Recorder’s office.
The monthly tally shows 586 properties foreclosed in February, up from 512 the previous month and 107 in...
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The number of bank-owned properties listed on the Bakersfield Multiple Listing Service, an index of properties for sale, topped the 1,000 mark Wednesday, according to Jon Vaughn, an agent with RE/MAX Magic and the host of a morning real estate radio show, Real Estate Today, on KGEO AM 1230. (Some...
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A few real estate items for the hungry out there. Bad news yadda yadda. Here goes.
One: Local defaults and foreclosures set new records (again) last month. Here's a link to existing story/PDFs. I'll update later in the day with more graphs:
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Who says L.A. media ignore Bakersfield?
Why, just this afternoon, a Reuters television crew stopped by Bakersfield to ask locals — including The Californian's assistant business editor, John Cox (who actually lives in Frazier Park) — about the state of Kern's housing market.
The...
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The fate of a controversial 788-home proposed development south of Panama Lane called Ten Section is still unresolved. The development was on the council agenda, but the applicant has asked for it to be put off.
The developer, Jim Manley, has been struggling to get buyoff from two key...
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Think for a change, u buy a home, everybody makes a commission, and u pay interest only for the 1st 20 years or so, so in the end u pay like 3 million dollars for a 200k house, so if the house goes back to the bank, what do they lose? They already made 50k on ya from the 4...
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Its wrong what the Californian is doing regarding foreclosures, my god, publishing the address' of the peoples homes that are in default, and how much they're behind. I'm sure that gives the neighbors allot to chat about.
It's plain wrong, unethical and hurtful, Report...
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The Bakersfield metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Kern County, had the eighth-highest foreclosure rate in the nation during the first quarter of 2007 with one foreclosure filing for every 83 households. In the first quarter there was one foreclosure filing for every 264...
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