Our newest Stevenson Ranch listing happens to be a flag lot! Check out the music video we put together for this Stevenson Ranch Flag Lot Home located at 25411 Hopkins Place.

Click here to view photos and virtual tours of this Stevenson Ranch Flag Lot Home!

If you're in the market for a home in Stevenson Ranch, and a flag lot isn't exactly what you had in mind, first you should search our Stevenson Ranch Homes For Sale page to see if there is anything else on the market that may interest you, then, you should give us a call @ The Robert and Brian Team (661-964-1760) so we can help you out!

Contact The Robert and Brian Team here!

 

Here is how to search all Santa Clarita homes with your cell phone! It's The Robert and Brian Team's cell phone application for your smartphone. Download it for free! It works not only in Santa Clarita, but will use your phone's GPS to locate you, and find homes for sale in just most cities across the country!

Watch the tutorial below, and learn how to download it, where to download it, and how to use it so that your home search in Santa Clarita is THAT much easier! Enjoy!

Looking for real estate in Saugus, Ca? Like the Copperhill area, north of Copperhill Dr? Well so do we, and this new listing of ours is a jewel. It just hit the market. Get into escrow before the 4th of July!

This Saugus home has so many upgrades your head will spin. I won't bore you with details here. Instead, go visit our website for details on this Saugus home for sale. It's located in the Mountain View Homes community. If you are interested in that community and you want to know what else if for sale in nearby communities, take a look at our Santa Clarita Tract Directory. It's filled with ease, and a dose of homebuyer nirvana...if there is such a thing.

In the meantime, check out this cool video we put together for our new listing in Saugus (Copperhill area), located at 28155 Tamarack Lane. Enjoy!

 

 

The Southland Regional Association of Realtors (SRAR) announced today that they will begin to accept applications from first-time homebuyers in Santa Clarita and the San Fernando Valley for a $4,000 grant. Qualifying first-time homebuyers for this grant must be "Public Safety Responders," which includes: Police Officers, Sheriffs, Firefighters, Emergency Medical Technicians, and California Highway Patrol.

The $4,000 grant money comes from the California Association of Realtors Housing Affordability Fund (HAF).

The are some requirements for the grant money, as well as income limitations.

• Applicant must be a first-time homebuyer, as defined by the State of California.
• Applicant must use a Realtor member of the Southland Regional Association of Realtors in the purchase of their home through the close of escrow.
• Applicant must be an employee of a fire department, police department, or paramedic unit within the city of Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, or San Fernando, or the California Highway Patrol and must provide evidence of such employment.
• Applicant must also participate in ONE of the following programs, all of which have similar income limits:
  • Walk-in homebuyer program (City of Los Angeles)
  • American Dream Down Payment Initiative (ADDI) (City of Los Angeles)
  • Low Income Purchase Assistance Program (LIPAP)(City of Los Angeles)
  • Mortgage Credit Certificate Program (MCC)(City of Los Angeles & LA County)
  • Housing Economic Recovery Ownership (HERO)
  • Home Ownership Program (HOP) (Selected cities of Los Angeles)
  • Southern California Home Financing Authority (SCHFA) (County of Los Angeles except city of Los Angeles)
  • Employer Assistance Programs
  • The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developments (HUD) Good Neighbor Next Door Program
• Applicant must attend the Los Angeles neighborhood Housing Services (LANHS) First-Time Homebuyer seminar and must prove the successful completion of the seminar with the certificate provided by LANHS.

For details on any of the above programs, please contact us @ The Robert and Brian Team so we can put you in the right direction on how to get more information on them, since participation in one of the above programs is mandatory in order to be considered for this grant.

Payment of the $4,000 to the homebuyers for this grant, is made after the successful close of escrow. Acceptance of your application does not guarantee payment. This is first come first serve, until the funded program runs out of money. Grants will be awarded to qualified applicants based on availability of funds and according to individual applicant need, as determined by the reviewing committee.

For help with your Santa Clarita home search, whether you are a first-tie homebuyer or not, please give us a call @ The Robert and Brian Team @ 661-964-1760. Or just visit us at our Santa Clarita real estate website.

 

Stevenson Ranch is a hot, and in demand community. So it begs to reason that whenever a deal pops up in the Stevenson Ranch Real Estate market, it gets snatched up. The Stevenson Ranch Bank Owned Foreclosures are just those types of deals that get quite a bit of attention.

Foreclosures often represent a great value, and as such we're always keeping track of them. If you're on the prowl for a good Stevenson Ranch foreclosure home, then you should know about these (always updated - click VIEW ALL to view all listings):

 

If you need assistance with your Santa Clarita home search, or more specifically, your Stevenson Ranch home search....then contact us @ The Robert and Brian Team. We'd love to help you out!

In the spirit of keeping everyone updated, here is a taste of what's happening in the Castaic Foreclosure market.

Below is a list of the Castaic bank owned foreclosures currently for sale: (click VIEW ALL to view all)

According to the Castaic MLS search I just performed, there are just 7 bank owned homes in Castaic. That's not a lot! It's no wonder prices have pretty much stopped their downward trend (for the time being at least).

If you're looking at homes for sale in the Castaic area, certainly some of these Castaic foreclosures may be of interest to you. Contact us @ The Robert and Brian Team to help with your home search in Castaic, and the Santa Clarita Valley.

The hottest selling Valencia homes, in the 91354 zip code, in May 2010, is the Esperto tract in the West Creek Valencia community. The Esperto tract is built by Lennar, in the master planned community of West Creek.

In the month of May, there were 5 Esperto townhomes that sold.

Here is a current snapshot of what's for sale in Esperto, as of today (always updated! Click VIEW ALL to view all active listings):

 

The West Creek community of Esperto is located at the north end of the Santa Clarita Valley, in Valencia. West Creek is located near Tesoro Del Valle, and is just east of the I-5 Freeway. With great shopping, nearby schools, and recreational amenities, West Creek is a terrific place to call home in our humble opinion.

Give us a call here @ The Robert and Brian Team. If you need help with your Santa Clarita home search, we are certainly here to get you to the next level.

Crunching the numbers, let's see which area of the Santa Clarita Valley, with respect to home sales, came out on top last month, May 2010.

As usual, Valencia, Ca had the most home sales @ 102.

Overall, there were 310 Santa Clarita home sales in May 2010.

The rest of the various Santa Clarita areas breakdown like so:

 

Santa Clarita Area	# Santa Clarita Homes Sold
Castaic	28
Stevenson Ranch	21
Newhall	28
Valencia	102
Saugus	50
Canyon Country	73
Agua Dulce	2
Acton	6

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For other in-depth SCV Real Estate information, please visit our Santa Clarita Real Estate Forum blog. Contact us @ The Robert and Brian Team for all of your Santa Clarita real estate needs!

I'm talking about Newer Santa Clarita homes built in 2005 or after. Our Santa Clarita MLS Search enables you to find homes in a variety of ways, including by age. Most of you have a preference for how old the home you purchase in Santa Clarita can be.

Here is an example of a Santa Clarita home search from our TheScvAgents.com website (showing top 20 results, click VIEW ALL to view all).

Here I have selected to view all SCV Homes for sale that were built in 2005 or after.

Santa Clarita Valley offers a wide variety of homes to prospective homebuyers and renters. They vary in age from generally the late 1950's, to as recent as new construction that has been built in Santa Clarita by Lennar and Pardee homes (West Creek / West Hills / Fair Oaks Ranch).

Most communities in Santa Clarita were built well after the 1970's, 1980's, and into the 1990's and 2000's. One of the best things about the Santa Clarita real estate market, is that well, it's in Santa Clarita! Santa Clarita is great in that a lot of the older communities, with aged housing tracts, are still some of the most sought after places to buy a home. This goes under the pride of ownership category. There is an immense pride of ownership throughout Santa Clarita. It's not uncommon for some SCV tracts to have no HOA to manage it's beauty, and yet, the homeowners in those communities keep it up just as good, as if there was an HOA.

Come see what Santa Clarita living is all about. Contact us, 661-964-1760, at The Robert and Brian Team for all of your Santa Clarita real estate needs.

 Sometimes it's fun to take a peek at the fringe activity happening in the Santa Clarita Valley real estate market. Homes in Santa Clarita, with huge price tags (for Santa Clarita that is), are indeed still selling from time to time. May 2010 was no exception.

I took the 5 homes with the highest selling price tags on them, and posted them above, for you to see.

As you can see, the home in Westridge Valencia, located at 25744 Oak Leaf Ct, sold for the most amount of money in May 2010, @ $2,399,900. The next highest priced home to sell in Santa Clarita was the home located in the North part of Saugus (Copper Hill area) at 23107 Shawnee Ct, for $1,999,000.

Since a home in Westridge sold for the highest price tag in May 2010, I will show you all of the other homes for sale in that community, right here (always updated - showing TOP 20 Homes - Click VIEW ALL to view all):

If you're on the hunt for a luxury home in the Santa Clarita Valley, feel free to contact us @ The Robert and Brian Team for assistance. Our team is well prepared to advise you on the ins and outs of the various communities that you may have an interest in. You can call us @ 661-964-1760. Or just visit our Santa Clarita real estate website here.