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Whether you’re getting licensed for the first time, meeting your continuing education requirements, or looking to enhance your career, make RealEstateExpress.com your real estate school of choice. After years of a constant up and down pricing battle, the U.S. housing market is finally returning to its’ normal state. Fiserv Case – Shriller is predicting home [...]Read More →

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Looking to Relocate? Check out these Markets Worth Investing in:

There is a lot of dismal news about the real estate market if you are a seller, but if you are a buyer or an investor, the deals that you can find right now are unbelievable. In a report by Inman News, the top ranked real estate investment markets are in some of the most [...]Read More →

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Creative strategies in a tough market:

Tough times in the real estate market have given way to some creative strategies to keep business going. Although sales may be harder to come by, some of the resourceful new ways that real estate licensees are doing business are really making a difference. These days it takes more than mowing the front lawn and [...]Read More →

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Inventory: Houses for Sale

Housing is up Inventory dropping to 4.2 month supply following the steady, gradual drop in inventory seen through the end of 2012. Low inventory signals a solid shift from a buyer’s market, where the supply exceeds the demand, to a seller’s market, with a low supply and higher demand. This is a factor that can [...]Read More →

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Does Your Location Foster Long Term Tenants?

Selecting good tenants is one of the keys to being a successful landlord. Getting those good tenants to stay for the long term is another. Long term tenants are good for business as they reduce the costs associated with tenant turnover. However your property’s location and the associated tenant base ...

Winter Doldrums an Improvement? A Return to Normalcy

Blame it on your favorite weather scapegoat: Atmospheric cycles, Climate change, Punxsutawney Phil: winter is not nearly finished with us. This year’s frigid temperatures are perhaps a rebound reaction to make up this year what we lacked in cold and catastrophe last year. Whatever the reason, the cold wet weather is taking its typical toll [...]Read More →

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Location, Location, Location

As gas prices begin yet another round of increases with no end in sight (if ever) homebuyers are finding that picking the right location is more valuable than ever. America was built on the automobile. The sheer size of the nation, coupled with the majesty of its natural landforms, not to mention the American ideals [...]Read More →

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So You Want to be Private Lender…Good Idea!

“There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills!” - Mark Twain

In January of 1848, a small nugget of gold was found at John Sutter’s sawmill in Northern California. Sutter was afraid that the discovery of gold would take his workers away from the mill. He was also concerned that gold would bring prospectors onto his land. He asked his workers at the ...

Is the Market Shifting?

Jennifer A. Klein

Derek Sandoval

By Jennifer Klein and Derek Sandoval

There is a shift toward a seller’s market in many areas of the country. Placer County Association of REALTORS® YPN members Jennifer Klein and Derek Sandoval discuss contributing factors, including lack of inventory and fewer distressed properties.