County of Castles: Orange County Real Estate Blog

Lets talk about trees for a moment, shall we?  After all, I can think of no better way to celebrate Arbor Day than by praising the tree and its impact on real estate values.Here's an article I just found talking about the efforts on the part of city leaders to increase the number of trees in thei...

If you bought your home in the last couple years, there's a better-than-fair chance that your home is now worth less than what you paid for it.  So why are you still paying taxes based on what you bought it for?Section 51 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code states that the assessed value ...

I just found a pretty decent article on steps to take as much as a year before becoming a homeowner. I think it's a fair primer on home-buying readiness.Of course, the overwhelming message of the article is that you need to be thinking loan first, house second. I keep trying to emphasize to my cl...