Santa Barbara Historic Homes Tour Sunday, May 18, 2014 (11 am to 4 pm) by Advance Reservations Featuring several of...
A two-minute tour of the Coral Casino and Cabannna Club on Channel Drive in Santa Barbara, California.Check out the Coral...
In early March the Montecito Journal reported that the Montecito Water District (MWD) unanimously approved a declaration of emergency water shortage – Ordinance 92- on February 11th, mandating no new water connections, plus restrictions on pools, hosing of hard surfaces, home car washes, and correction of leaks, plus fines of up to $1000 for repeated violations.
So you’re buying a home and are totally in love with the place, except that the doors and windows all...
Lots of people make lots of moves – real estate and otherwise – to minimize what they owe and maximize what they get back on their taxes. The first step is to make sure you’re not actually missing any tax deductions and breaks you already qualify for.
Looking for the perfect home, it turns out, is a lot like looking for love.
Prospective homebuyers frequently develop “crushes” on certain properties and drive by or go online for a second or third look while technically still playing the field, according to a recent survey.
And what makes one buyer’s heart go all aflutter can leave another cold as a stone.
The survey was conducted by Realtor.com, which polled 1,000 visitors to its website in the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day.
It found that 69 percent of consumers admitted to having a “home crush” — a property they liked so much they were drawn back to looking at it more than once, in person or online.
The survey also revealed that in matters of the heart, like matters of the heart, men and women behave differently.
Despite the bursting of the housing bubble, the ensuing recession, and the slow recovery, buyers have not abandoned luxury homes. It turns out they just took a break. In July 2013, sales of homes costing more than $1 million were up 46.6 percent from the previous July.
The Bond real estate brokerage in NYC now accepts Bitcoins.“The Bitcoin is a convenient and inexpensive way for our customers to transfer money, so we see it as a win-win situation which will impact the real estate industry,” said Noah Freedman, co-founder of Bond New York.
In what may be a first for a traditional real estate firm, Manhattan-basedbrokerage Bond New York has announced it will now accept Bitcoin as payment for real estate transactions.
The shifting sands of consumer tastes are revealed in the latest “lab report” from the Trulia.com website which examined the last two years of luxury home listings to see what amenities are trending up, and trending down.
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