Well folks we are now in March of 2014, and as promised at the beginning of last month, we would like to welcome you to our second installment of what we have decided to call the “Los Angeles Real Estate Inventory Report”. For those of you who may have missed our first inventory report, here […]
As many of you are aware, at JohnHart Real Estate we believe that a house is more than just somewhere to live or something to rent out, it is an investment; and likely the single largest investment in your portfolio!
As is tradition with the real estate & lifestyle website/blog Curbed Los Angeles, every year they choose one neighborhood within the confines of Greater Los Angeles and present it with what they call the “Curbed Cup.” This year the honor was bestowed upon none other than Glendale, CA.
If you’re acquainted at all with the real estate market in Los Angeles, or have been to DTLA in the past few years, then it should come as no surprise that the housing market in downtown has experienced quite the resurgence. In fact in just the last 12 months the median sold price in downtown […]
If you missed the President’s “speech” on Zillow.com this morning, or are just looking for some analysis on the conversation, you have come to the right place! At 10 am this morning on Zillow.com/whitehouse, Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff had the opportunity to sit down with President Obama and host a Q&A session regarding the housing […]
Well the inevitable has happened! Homeowners who received home loan modifications in the past several years are beginning to default on their modified loans at an alarming rate. In fact the pattern of homeowners going from default to modification then back into default is becoming so prevalent that society has seen fit to give it […]
UBS could be the first of the European banks to pay up for misleading mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over the quality of packaged mortgage backed securities sold leading up to the housing market crash.
Investing in Real Estate is a great opportunity to earn a return on your money of up to 10% annually. Just think of it this way, why would you have your money tied up in a savings account with a 1% or maybe if you’re lucky a 2% APY when you can invest in an […]
A Home Equity Line Of Credit loan (aka HELOC) was something people could not get enough of in the early 2000’s. They were our very own piggy bank; we all became rich because our properties grew in value and in turn we cashed out the equity and took the family on vacation. However, just like […]
As an economics major, real estate agent, and a licensed general contractor, my opinion on the idea of flipping a house might be a little biased. However, a recent encounter with a prospective buyer, who voiced his opinion in front of me to an investor, motivated me to write this article as an educated response […]
