oceanside: What's happening with housing prices in Oceanside? What can I do as a buyer? - 03/31/09 12:01 AM
Homes in good neighborhoods, priced right and in decent condition are getting multiple offers. Why is that?
The number of homes being sold is definitely higher year over year, and from February to about June is the most activity each year on a seasonal basis, so that accounts for some of (0 comments)
oceanside: Rancho Del Oro Oceanside sales prices are stable for past 6 months? - 02/11/09 03:03 AM
An appraiser who was doing a valuation in Oceanside's Rancho Del Oro neighborhood was kind enough to email me a graph she put together of the last 6 months of sales activity Thanks to Lisa Forbes for showing graphically the popularity of this tract in Oceanside. With good schools, convenient location, (0 comments)
oceanside: Rancho Del Oro: low inventory, brisk sales - 01/28/09 12:03 AM
For all the published doom and gloom, Rancho Del Oro in Oceanside, CA continues to be a popular area for buyers due to it's good schools in either the Oceanside or Vista school districts, a convenient location, and an association doing it's job maintaining the grounds to preserve the look of (0 comments)
oceanside: Villages of Rancho Del Oro in Oceanside. Map of residences - 07/25/08 12:32 AM
Here is a map showing the 7 residential villages(plus Sandalwood) comprising the tract home community of Rancho Del Oro in Oceanside, CA. Most are detached homes(about 1600), but there is Alacima which are townhomes, and The Missions at Rancho Del Oro Apartments(www.missionsatranchodeloro.com) also. In addition there is quite a bit of commercial space.
Also (0 comments)
oceanside: Short sale turns to bank owned. Will the bank come out ahead? - 07/24/08 04:26 PM
I had a buyer offer $360,000 4 months ago for 1706 Calle Platico in Oceanside's Rancho Del Oro neighborhood. We were beat out one month later by an offer at $378,000. Today the bank lists the home as an REO at an asking price of $325,000. Will multiple offers drive the price (0 comments)
oceanside: Arrowood Oceanside New Home Sales and Foreclosures Dominate Sales - 06/02/08 03:25 AM
Oceanside's Arrowood community, including KB Homes' Windham and Buckingham tracts, is an area of homes less than 5 years old with new construction still ongoing. Unfortunately, this mix has caused it to have some of the biggest price drops (from the peak) that we have seen in Oceanside.
As the inventory of bank (0 comments)
oceanside: 30 offers on a Rancho Del Oro home. Has the bottom hit? - 04/11/08 05:57 PM
Just this week, a 1919sf home built in 1996 priced at $343,900 in Oceanside's Rancho Del Oro community received 30 offers. The market price of this bank owned home is about $375,000. So the asking price represents a pretty good deal at today's pricing, but otherwise it is an unremarkable home and actually (2 comments)
oceanside: Rancho Del Oro and many parts of Oceanside showing signs of recovery - 04/01/08 12:16 AM
Many parts of Oceanside have seen prices almost freefall since last summer. Fortunately, due to recent buyer activity, that decline has a chance to slow down and maybe even level off. With 53 homes actively for sale in Rancho Del Oro, and 14 in Pending status, it indicates a theoretical 4 (0 comments)
oceanside: Olga's foreclosure has a happy ending - 04/01/08 12:00 AM
At least it was a happy ending for the buyer of her home who I met the other day. He paid $404,500 including the 5% buyer's fee at the Real Estate Disposition Corporation's last public auction. The interesting part of the story is one of my first conversations with Olga in (3 comments)
oceanside: Summit View Community in Oceanside, CA. One of my favorites. - 02/21/08 02:07 AM
I don't know if many Oceanside folks could tell you where the Summit View community is located. It's one of those smaller tracts(only about 100 single family detached homes), but it has a lot of fine qualities that make it one of my favorites. It must be liked by the owners (0 comments)
oceanside: River Ranch Community in Oceanside, CA Market Report for 2/20/08 - 02/21/08 01:44 AM
River Ranch has homes built in 2001-2002 by Fieldstone and KB Homes and is located at the corner of Hwy76 and Old Grove. It represented a reasonable price point for newer homes, without Mello Roos in a gated community with pool, convenient location and good schools in the area. Unfortunately, buyers (0 comments)
oceanside: River Ranch gated community in Oceanside, CA. KB Homes and Fieldstone - 02/21/08 01:11 AM
The gated River Ranch community in Oceanside, CA located near Hwy76 and Old Grove involved 2 builders: KB Homes and Fieldstone under the phase names Avondale and Sedona for KB, Somerton and Del Sol for Fieldstone. Construction of these single family detached homes took place around 2001-2002. Avondale: Plan 1 is 1860sf, plan 2 (0 comments)
oceanside: Villages of Rancho Del Oro in Oceanside, CA. Market Update 2/20/08 - 02/21/08 12:08 AM
Well, it has been 6 months since my last update for Rancho Del Oro(RDO) and a lot has happened since then. The lenders dropping many loan programs in July 2007 caused almost a halt of sales for RDO in the next couple months causing a 10% drop in prices in those (0 comments)
oceanside: San Diego Restaurant Week is great. Too bad for Carlsbad and Oceanside - 01/21/08 01:45 AM
Since Realtors like nothing more than eating, especially if someone else is paying or it's a good deal, I thought I'd mention San Diego Restaurant Week is happening twice in 2008...that's great news. Now in its fourth year as San Diego County's largest and most successful dining event, San Diego Restaurant (0 comments)
oceanside: Signs of hope for price stabilization in Oceanside? - 01/05/08 02:44 AM
The inventory of Active listings in Oceanside's Rancho Del Oro tract home community of about 1700 homes currently sits at about 48 single family detached homes. In August of 2007, that number was about 80 and for Jan-May 2007 it stood at about 55 homes, when sales were brisk with prices (1 comments)
oceanside: Auction House 4309 Deer Valley Sales Result in Oceanside's River Ranch - 11/18/07 05:52 PM
A quick update on the final sales price of the auction home at 4309 Deer Valley Way in Oceanside, California's River Ranch Community: This had a sales price of $463,000 and $10,000 was credited to the buyer with closing date October 29, 2007. So with $453,000 going to the seller and $20,000 (0 comments)
oceanside: North San Diego County November 2007 Calendar of Events - 11/08/07 01:16 AM
Please call ahead to confirm dates and times
Nov 4 Carlsbad Fall Village Faire Largest one-day street fair in California, features 800+ exhibitors, international food and live entertainment, 8am-4pm. Grand Ave, downtown Carlsbad. 760-945-9288 or www.carlsbad.org
Nov 8 - Dec 30 Welk Resort Theatre Irving Berlin’s White Christmas Southern California premier. (0 comments)
oceanside: Does a higher buyer's agent commission make a difference? - 10/31/07 05:20 PM
During a buyer's market, does a higher cooperating broker(buyer's agent) commission make a difference?
Since I have an engineering degree, I always enjoy analyzing statistics. As I work predominantly in Oceanside, CA, I use a tract home neighorhood(Rancho Del Oro) of about 1600 single family homes built between 1986 and 2002 (3 comments)
oceanside: Douglas Crossing community in Oceanside California within the Arrowood development - 10/27/07 06:54 PM
Douglas Crossing built by Centex Homes (http://www.centexhomes.com/) in 2003 consists of about 179 homes in 5 models, two of which are single story. Lot sizes average 6500 square feet. The homes range in size from 1833 to 2860 square feet and were originally priced in the mid $300,000s. Today's values are (0 comments)
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