santa maria: Santa Maria Purchase Loans Outnumber Refinance Loans - 09/04/08 02:02 PM
I am not quite sure how to interpret the fact that in July the number of Purchase Loans recorded in Santa Maria outnumbered the Refinance Loans.
Let me compose myself and think this through. Here are some of the facts.
The purchase market in Santa Maria has been going gangbusters
The
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santa maria: Santa Maria Purchase Loans Outnumber Refinance Loans - 09/04/08 02:02 PM
I am not quite sure how to interpret the fact that in July the number of Purchase Loans recorded in Santa Maria outnumbered the Refinance Loans.
Let me compose myself and think this through. Here are some of the facts.
The purchase market in Santa Maria has been going gangbusters
The
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santa maria: Is The Low End Picking Up, What Are You Seeing? - 06/20/08 12:52 PM
I know this may sound funny to many of you but Santa Barbara County does have a low end, or affordable market. That market is in the northern part of our county and mainly consists of 2 communites, Santa Maria and Lompoc.
Both of these communities are seeing increased activity. If
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santa maria: Santa Barbara California's Bank Owned Properties - 05/27/08 12:31 PM
Santa Barbara County has not been immune to the foreclosure issues facing the country. There are of course some very distinct differences between the North County and the South County when it comes to the properties being foreclosed on and taken back by the bank.
There were 123 properties taken back
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santa maria: Incredible Property Sales In Santa Maria! - 05/16/08 06:18 PM
The north part of Santa Barbara County has not seen any real improvement in the number of sales in a long time. Last month that all changed.
Santa Maria absolutely exploded! There were 134 transactions reported by CORT. That is a 54% increase in the number of sales from March. It
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santa maria: Santa Ynez Valley & Lompoc Sales - 04/22/08 01:49 PM
March was a month you would expect to see the home sales activity pick up in Santa Barbara County. Just a brief observation of the numbers tells me that the low end of the market appears to be getting the price point figured out. Lompoc would be one of those
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santa maria: Santa Maria Property Sales For March - 04/14/08 02:25 PM
The Santa Maria Area sales map is up and viewable for March. This map will show all the property sales in that area reported by CORT. This includes Condos, Homes, Vacant Land, Commercial Property, and any other land transfer. The maps for Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, and the Lompoc area are
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santa maria: Santa Barbara Foreclosure Trends - 03/18/08 05:47 PM
I know this is going to come off as some kind of understatement, but I'll write it anyway. "This is a very interesting Real Estate Market!" Updating the numbers for the Foreclosures Trends is just like updating any of the other numbers I look at each month, Crazy! If you
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santa maria: Santa Maria and Lompoc Loan Activity - 03/06/08 02:51 PM
Residential Loan Activity in the North County for January 2008 was what you would have expected.
Santa Maria continued to see declining numbers, while Lompoc's numbers were mixed. The number of refinances in Lompoc was less, while the number of purchase loans increased by a few. If you compare these
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santa maria: Santa Barbara County Loan Activity December 2007 - 01/28/08 01:52 PM
Lending Institutions have certainly been seeing more than their fare share of the front page of many newspapers these days. If you read all the headlines you wouldn't think there were any left to do loans. Well there are and the loan programs I'm hearing about are pretty darn good. Santa
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santa maria: Santa Maria and Lompoc Real Estate December 2007 - 01/22/08 11:48 AM
The North County Sales showed some signs of life in December rebounding from October and November's numbers. The Santa Maria and Lompoc Real Estate Sales posted a 13% gain in the number of sales from November. If you look at some of the past years, this seems pretty typical in
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santa maria: November Santa Barbara Home Loan Activity - 12/24/07 11:02 AM
The loan activity in the South County of Santa Barbara fell in November compared with October. The number of non purchase loans was down about 11% to 341. The number of purchase loans was up about 6% to 86. There are certainly some seasonal influences affecting these numbers but these
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santa maria: November Home Sales In Santa Maria and Lompoc - 12/19/07 10:17 AM
Santa Maria and Lompoc saw a very small increase in the number of closings in November. There were 95 combined closings in October and 99 in November. Lompoc did 3 more closings in November. There total was 25 as compared to the 22 that closed in October. Santa Maria had
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santa maria: North Santa Barbara County Home Sales - 10/15/07 01:03 PM
The Santa Maria and Lompoc areas have been hit pretty hard this year by the amount of foreclosures and bank owned properties that are on the market. The prices have declined, the inventory has grown and the number of sales has continued to drop. September was no exception. There were 102 transactions
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