best real estate agent: Ventura County Real Estate Market Update #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor
- 07/01/16 09:28 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Time to Sell Your Home? Mortgage Pre Approval Neighborhood Market Report Time To Buy A Home Selling Your Home This Summer Buying A Home This Summer Your home is probably the biggest asset you own. This is why you should hire a professional REALTOR® to guide you. I help 24 to 28 families each year buy or sell a home. I have been a financial & real estate consultant for the past 30 years and specialized in loan loss mitigation, short sale negotiation and REO marketing. I know how to negotiate contracts & navigate through … (2 comments)
It could be said the words "Canada" and "health care" really don't go together because some Canadians never make it to the doctor. Too many die untreated due to extended wait times to see a doctor, and those wait times have increased again this year. Spain Runs Out of Workers With Almost 5 Million People in Spain Unemployed..... because unemployed people don’t have the skills employers demand.” Thank You "Free College" Education!! We Should … (0 comments)
Now that much of the dust has settled and the panic has waned, let’s take a look at what impact Britain’s exit from the European Union may have on the U.S. housing market. The most immediate impact of Brexit will be on mortgage interest rates. Interest rates have remained at historic lows for the last several years. Contrary to what many experts believed, rates have remained low throughout the first half of 2016. Possible impact of Brexit on mortgage rates? In a recent article, the Washington Post explained: “Brexit has spawned … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: Coming Soon From Simi Valley #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor
- 04/01/16 01:07 PM
Chris B Johnson's Blog Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® 1 Apr Simi Valley Home Coming Soon! Chris B Johnson, REALTOR®, SFR®, CDPE®, CHS® Time To Buy A Home Simi Valley Home Values & Market Trends Simi Valley Condo Values & Market Trends How To Get Your Home SOLD!!
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best real estate agent: Thousand Oaks Luxury Home Specialist-Want $25,000 More For Your Home?
- 02/29/16 10:30 AM
HOME FORECLOSURE SOLUTIONS SHORT SALES EXPLAINED RESOURCES BLOG FAQ CONTACT US Google+ Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Time to Sell Your Home? Mortgage Pre Approval Neighborhood Market Report Time To Buy A Home Last year, many homeowners saw incredible gains in equity as home prices continued to rise. With interest rates inching upwards, many of those homeowners are taking advantage of their new equity to sell their homes and take advantage of today’s low mortgage rates… If you’re one of those homeowners looking to sell, how does an extra $25,000 for your home sound?
According to a report published in … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: Ventura County Homes - History Always Repeats Itself
- 02/19/16 07:05 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Neighborhood Market Report Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home Less than 1 out of 3 California families can afford to purchase a home: The number of Millennials living at home continues to grow. Chris B Johnson, REALTOR®, SFR®, CDPE®, CHS® We are definitely into housing bubble territory. The latest California affordability figures show that only 29 percent of families can actually buy a home at today’s prices. This is why we are seeing products like the PoppyLoan coming about in the Bay Area trying to bring back the nothing down days of the last bubble. You also have companies … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: Be The Eternal Optimist #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor
- 02/18/16 03:34 AM
Here is a joke popularized by Ronald Reagan. It makes a useful statement on what to do when things look bleak in your life. I looked it up and thought you’d enjoy the full context: An excerpt from “How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life” by Peter Robinson:
Chapter One The Pony In the Dung Heap When Life Buries You, Dig Journal Entry, June 2002: Over lunch today I asked Ed Meese about one of Reagan’s favorite jokes. “The pony joke?” Meese replied. “Sure I remember it. If I heard him tell it once, I heard him tell it a thousand times.” The joke concerns twin boys of five or six. … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: Ventura County Short Sales, Is House Flipping Is Making a Comeback?
- 02/18/16 03:21 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Neighborhood Market Report Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home If the resales are driven by Flip Investors who see an opportunity to buy homes and make repairs neglected during the recession, the activity could be a good thing. If investors are simply speculating that underlying home values are going to rise, that could be a troubling sign of an overheating market. At the onset of the millennium, house flippers—people who purchased imperfect homes, renovated them, and resold them at a profit mere months later—ran rampant in U.S. housing markets. When the market went bust, the flippers mostly went … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: Could Recent Stock Market Drops Can Affect Real Estate Values?
- 01/15/16 11:35 PM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Neighborhood Market Report Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home Those that pay attention to the stock market know that things haven’t exactly been going well recently. Market crashes in Asian countries, especially China, have sent ripple effects towards the U.S. The third week of August was the worst week in four years, and the Dow Jones industrial average went down 1,000 points on Monday, August 24th according to NBC News. Some experts are noticing early signs of recession periods, such as former treasury secretary Lawrence Summers. The percentage drops might be enough to get the attention of high profile investors, … (6 comments)
best real estate agent: Nothing Is Moving? Has Commerce Come To A Halt ?
- 01/12/16 03:50 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR®, SFR®, CDPE®, CHS® Interesting If True.... Commerce between Europe and North America has literally come to a halt. For the first time in known history, not one cargo ship is in-transit in the North Atlantic between Europe and North America. All of them (hundreds) are either anchored offshore or in-port. NOTHING is moving. This has never happened before. It is a horrific economic sign; proof that commerce is literally stopped. If true, this would be catastrophic for world trade. Even if it’s not true, shipping is still nearly dead in the water according to other indices. The Baltic Dry … (2 comments)
best real estate agent: Ventura County Real Estate Prices-Housing Recovery to Pick Up in 2016
- 11/17/15 09:10 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home Steady employment and economic growth, pent-up demand, affordable home prices and attractive mortgage rates will keep the housing market on a gradual upward trend in 2016. However, persistent headwinds related to shortages and availability of lots and labor, along with rising material prices are impeding a more robust recovery, according to economists who participated in a recent National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Fall Construction Forecast Webinar. “This recovery is all about jobs,” says NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe. “If people can get good jobs that pay decent incomes, … (0 comments)
Weekly Mortgage Rate Update The statement released following Wednesday's Fed meeting was not good for mortgage rates. This week's economic data was roughly neutral. As a result, mortgage rates ended the week higher. THIS WEEK'S RATE TREND IS UP … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: WHY PERISCOPE IS PERFECT FOR YOUR BUSINESS #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor
- 10/08/15 09:45 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR®, SFR® More On Moorpark Real Estate More on Ventura County Real Estate There Is No Housing Bubble Real Estate News Moorpark Homes 4 Sale Simi Valley Homes 4 Sale Thousand Oaks Homes 4 Sale Let’s face it: There are technology updates every second of every day and it’s hard to keep up. One of the latest innovations to hit the social media world is a new app called Periscope. It isn’t just another photo sharing app or a place to post your next status update, Periscope truly is a game-changer for both the social community and for real … (3 comments)
best real estate agent: Why You Should Just STOP Trying #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor
- 09/30/15 09:37 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor More on Ventura County Real Estate There Is No Housing Bubble Moorpark Homes 4 Sale Simi Valley Homes 4 Sale Thousand Oaks Homes 4 Sale
Name one jargon term YOU think should be eliminated from business-speak. My pick? “Try.” Let me explain: “Try” is the absolute archenemy to accomplishment, a word loathed by leaders around the world … and beyond. (Even Jedi Master Yoda famously said, “Do or do not. There is no try.”) Too often “try” is used as an excuse for failure, a simple—and often accepted—justification for why … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: Is this is end of REO and Short Sales? #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor
- 09/28/15 02:39 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® First Time Buyers FannieMae Home Ready Loans Your Equity Is On The Rise! Should You Sell This Summer? Return Of The Housing Market J The serious delinquency rate continued to decline in August, dropping by another three basis points down to 1.45 percent. The serious delinquency rate on Freddie Mac-backed loans is now seven basis points lower than it was in November 2008 at the start of the financial crisis (1.52 percent) and nearly 2 percentage points lower than the national serious delinquency rate reported by CoreLogic for July 2015 (3.4 percent). A total of 4,137 homeowners with … (0 comments)
best real estate agent: The Cost Of Waiting To Buy A Home #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor
- 09/22/15 03:31 AM
Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Your Moorpark Neighborhood Specialists Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor The Cost of Waiting to Buy a Home Wednesday September 16th, 2015 For Buyers, Interest Rates, Pricing The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently released their July edition of the Housing Affordability Index. The index measures whether or not a typical family earns enough income to qualify for a mortgage loan on a typical home at the national level based on the most recent price and income data.
NAR looks at the monthly mortgage payment (principal & interest) which is determined by the median sales price and mortgage interest … (0 comments)
Weekly Mortgage Rate Update The most highly anticipated Fed meeting in years contained good news for mortgage rates. As a result, mortgage rates ended the week lower.
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