MARK GUNDLACH's (promarkteam) Blog

Note to young renters: It's a very good time to start thinking about buying your first house. Sure, the housing market is in the Dumpster, and houses are still expensive - up almost a third from their prices at the beginning of the decade, with some markets considerably higher than that. Throw in...

It would take 7.5 months for buyers to gobble up all the Orange County homes listed for sale last week at the current pace of deals - the lowest level of home inventory since last April, according to market watcher Steve Thomas.    Thomas, of Re/Max Real Estate Services in Aliso Viejo, every two ...

Considering all of the negative press the housing market received in late 2007, it's more important than ever for buyers to separate fact from fiction when deciding on a time to buy a home. This report is intended to help home buyers assess the facts of the real estate market objectively. About I...

NEW Conventional Conforming Plus Product FYI Number: 08-0078 Issue Date: 03/17/08 Applicable to Tiers: 1, 2, 4 Providing Financing for the American Dream. Introducing a New 30-Year Fixed Conforming Plus Product Effective Wednesday, March 19, 2008, PHH will be releasing a new conventional jumbo-co...

Five Topics to Discuss With Your Real Estate Agent When Preparing To Buying a HomeWhether you're ready to settle into your first home or looking to buy your fifth; are moving cross-country or cross-town, it's smart to identify which attributes of a new home are most important to you. Be sure to s...

From Time Magazine; February 2008 I recently came across this article that summarizes perfectly the current state of the real estate market here in South Orange County. And surprisingly...it has nothing to do with finding steals at 20-30% below market value, bottoming out prices or agents trying ...

"Coldwell Banker. The company, also a unit of Realogy, tries to lighten up its approach to today's grim market in new TV ads and a companion website.The ads show portraits of late founders Colbert Coldwell and Benjamin Arthur Banker. The voiceover is banter between them about everything from inte...

presented by Irvine Barclay TheatreMonday, March 17th, 2008 at 8:00 PMFrom Belmullet, County Mayo, Irish button accordion wizard David Munnelly and his band exploded onto the international Irish music scene with hit albums in Europe and Japan, dual CD releases in North America, a PBS special, and...

Hope Now hotline leaves callers frustrated; ‘more work to be done'From an article today at MSNBC.com, it seems The Hope Now Alliance, a private partnership organized by the federal government, seems to be falling short of expectations. Though the Alliance is pursuing its mission on several fronts...

National Association of Realtors® Calculates Impact of Increasing FHA Loan LimitsIncreasing FHA loan limits will help an additional 138,000 Americans achieve the dream of homeownership and will allow nearly 200,000 homeowners to refinance and potentially keep their home, according to NAR research...