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Navy and Marine Relocation to San Diego

January 26th, 2009

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Sailors and Marines relocating to San Diego can count on local real estate expert Dawn Lewis and her team to help them relocate to San Diego. The Navy and Marine Corps make SAN DIEGO NAVY AND MARINE RELOCATIONup the vast majority of the military presence in the San Diego area and are a vital factor tothe identity of San Diego and its long military history. Dawn Lewis and her team havehelped many Sailors and Marines and their families with relocation to San Diego and have done so with attention to detail that would make an Admiral or General proud.

San Diego is home to thousands of Sailors and Marines and there are several large Navy and Marine Bases in San Diego County. Whether you are an officer or enlisted we can help you find just the right home or condo for you and for your family. We respect your time and your family’s time and will work within your schedule to show you properties that meet your criteria for a new home in San Diego.

If you’re relocating to San Diego within the next 6 months contact us now and we can start emailing you homes and condos in the areas of San Diego you are considering relocating to. We can also get you hooked up with a great local lender to start the VA Loan process. We can email you information about things in communities that will help you choose where you’re going to call home after you arrive to your new duty station in San Diego. Our local Military Relocation Real Estate Agents can help with your decision making process because of their knowledge of the areas they specialize in.

When you need help with San Diego Military Relocation make sure you contact us. Where agents know it’s more about the people than the house.

Dawn Lewis and The Dawn Lewis Team
San Diego Military Housing Expert

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San Diego Military Housing

January 24th, 2009

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San Diego Military Housing

If you’re in the Military in San Diego and you San Diego Military Housingneed housing make sure you contact us. We have helped San Diego’s Military with housing for over 20 years. When buying a house in San Diego as someone in the military or a military family you should work with a team that has helped countless military families relocate to San Diego. For some military house buyers it’s important to be close to the San Diego Military Bases they’re stationed at. We can help you with military housing in San Diego in the areas of; Miramar, Camp Pendleton, Coronado, North Island, Commander Navy Region Southwest and other San Diego Bases. We enjoy helping military personnel and military families find housing in San Diego California and have many experienced agents on standby for immediate assistance. Many of our Real Estate Agents are Veterans and they understand the military lifestyle and its challenges. We can also refer you to a lender than can help you with a VA Loan.

When you need help with San Diego Military Housing make sure you contact us. Where agents know it’s more about the people than the house.Dawn Lewis and The Dawn Lewis Team
San Diego Military Housing Expert

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About San Diego Real Estate Blog

January 20th, 2009

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The San Diego Real Estate Blog is a Web Log about Real Estate in San Diego County California. Posts about buying real estate in San Diego and Selling Real Estate as well as all aspects of the market are presented daily to interested Blog readers. This San Diego Real Estate Blog is considered one the most detailed and accurate in the Blogosphere. When reader want information on real estate related information in the San Diego area this is the Blog they click to.

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San Diego Had Their Share of 2.3 Million Foreclosure Filings in 2008

January 15th, 2009

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The foreclosure filings rose 81% nationwide in 2008 and 2.3 million homeowners received a foreclosure or auction notice in that year. The 2009 foreclosure filings should be as gloomy or even more gloomy than 2008. This data is from RealtyTrac Inc. and shows the dire reality of how many families are loosing their homes. There was 1 in every 54 households that received either a foreclosure or auction filing. 2009 should bring more bad news in the mail for many homeowners struggling to make their house payments. Many are just throwing up their hands and walking away. The economy now in a recession won’t help matters and with the unemployment rate on a sharp incline it will only fuel this foreclosure pattern.

Homeowners in San Diego have been hit with some of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. The past real estate boom in San Diego is now in complete coloration to theSan Diego Americas Finest City downturn that has San Diegans feeling blue. San Diego has always been known for the great weather and sunshine which is free. This is a bright side to the malaise that has gripped most areas of the country in that San Diego is a great place to live whether you own or rent. It is still truly Americas Finest City ….. it’s just a little more affordable. O.K. a lot more affordable.

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San Diego REO Listing Agent Dawn Lewis

January 4th, 2009

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My name is Dawn Lewis and I am an REO Listing Agent in San Diego County with 20 Dawn Lewis REOyears experience. Asset Managers when your ready to sell your assets in San Diego County California make sure you contact me. I have personally sold over 1,500 homes in San Diego County. I am one of the fastest growing REO Listing agents in San Diego County including the Chula Vista area and would like to offer you my services in selling your companies assets. I currently have a team of 7 in my REO division and my REO’s are serviced by the 70 agents that work within my company. We sell REO’s fast with extreme efficiency through systems that my team and I have perfected with my 20 years experience as a San Diego Realtor and REO Specialist.

I would like to prove myself to you by having you interview me by phone or email. I would also appreciate listing 5 to 10 of your assets so that you can experience how good my services are. I know what your goal is; to sell your assets as quickly as possible for the most money and the least amount of problems.

I have several web sites and Blogs where I promote my REO’s for fast and efficient sales. These web sites currently come up on page 1 on Google for San Diego Foreclosures which gives me 10 to 20 leads for REO buyers and investors per day. Please take advantage of the systems that I have created to sell your assets fast, efficiently and for top-dollar.  I look forward to speaking with you further regarding your REO’s. Some of my qualifications include:

REOMAC-Mortgage Default Industries Top Service
5 Star-Golden Member
REOTrans, ResNet, REO Maestro
Real Estate Agent/Salesperson License since 1989
Over 200 Hours of REO & BPO Education on file
I would appreciate the chance to work with you and selling any assets that you have in the San Diego County, California area.

Sincerely and Respectfully,

Dawn Lewis
619-981-3917
San Diego REO Listing Agent

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San Diego House Values           Local Real Estate Information

San Diego Real Estate Blog      San Diego Short Sales

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San Diego on Target for Low Prices and High Volume Sales in 2009

December 8th, 2008

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San Diego is ripe for a great 2009 in the Real Estate Market. Prices are low and falling in the upper end price ranges and coastal communities. Interest rates are falling and should stay low through most of 2009. With the continuing foreclosures and the government helping homeowners and the economy out – here and there – the real estate in San Diego for 2009 should start the stabilization in the lower price ranges of single family detached homes. I’m starting to see it already and the entry level homes should continue to level off in many areas of San Diego through the 2009 real estate year.

It doesn’t mean that all the news is great and everything in real estate and the economy is just fine but it is the start of the next market. Once the entry level home prices stabilize it will have an effect on the entire market. Many “on the fence buyers” should jump into the market in 2009. With a new president in the White House this should calm the uncertainty of the whole election issues we’ve been focused on for the last 2 years. Many buyers who short sold their homes in 2006 and 2007 will be able to buy again. The investors have been pulling money out of their roller coaster ride on Wall Street and are deciding that real estate is a better more tangible item to own, especially real estate in Southern California.

Are you considering the purchase of a home or condo in San Diego in 2009? If so contact us for a one on one Q & A.

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San Diego House Values           Local Real Estate Information

San Diego Real Estate Blog      San Diego Short Sales

San Diego Foreclosures            San Diego Green Homes

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Comparing San Diego Foreclosures and Short Sales

November 29th, 2008

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Comparing Foreclosures and Short Sales is sort of like comparing Apples to Oranges. Foreclosures in San Diego will San Diego Foreclosuressell fast and get multiple offers if they are priced correctly and in a desirable price range. It seems that the magic number or price range for a single family detached home is anything under $400,000. Most of the time there are aggressive offers and many offers in this price range which will also drive the price up on the REO. Not only is the price important to the asset managers who will ultimately decide which offer to take but also things like, how much money “non loan amount” is in the deal, is it an all cash offer, what has the mortgage holders lender determined the purchasers credit looks like, and others. Foreclosures are in many cases not in as good condition as short sales are because the previous owner in some cases might have removed essential items like lighting, stoves, water heaters, outlets etc …. Where on a short sale most of the time the seller or renter is still in the home maintaining it and will not usually do any destruction while in their possession.

Short Sales have the length of time issues unpopular to agents, sellers and buyers. ShortSan Diego Short Sales sale packages are submitted to the bank by the listing agent and offers are taken and submitted to the bank. The process of the bank looking at offers and accepting one or countering the offer can take a long time. The factors include, which bank has the short sale, who the negotiator at the bank is, what the offers look like to name a few. Sometimes the short sales are unbelievably fast at 60 to 90 days and sometimes they can take over a year and in some cases get foreclosed on despite the efforts of everyone involved. When the bank is interested in selling the home as a short sale and not pursuing a foreclosure they will approve the short sale at a price and terms and this is when a buyer can pick up a home at a great price. Sometimes the prices are better than the foreclosures which can be bid up to more than what they should be selling for. Some people are under the false impression that just because it’s a foreclosure it’s the best deal on the market. The short sale is also in many cases in better condition.

Take you pick apple or orange but make sure you contact us for a San Diego Foreclosure or San Diego Short Sale!

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San Diego Real Estate Blog      San Diego Short Sales

San Diego Foreclosures            San Diego Green Homes

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Getting the Foreclosure Elephant through the Snake

November 5th, 2008

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If the real estate market in San Diego is a long snake the foreclosures are like an elephant that the snake has eaten. Like anything a snake eats it will take San Diego Real Estate Markettime to pass through the length of the snake’s body. Eventually it will be digested and disposed of. In the mean time the snake has a huge blockage that has to work itself through before it goes back to its normal appearance.

The San Diego Real Estate Market has swallowed an elephant and that elephant is the foreclosure market. This foreclosure elephant is slowly being digested by the real estate buyers in the San Diego Real Estate Market Snake. It will take some time to digest and property values in many areas of San Diego are still declining. Banks are loan modifying and taking short sale offers that are heading off foreclosures that will never even hit the San Diego Market. Banks are also starting to bulk sale REO’s so that investors can gobble them up and sell them at auctions or hang on to them as investments for a sale at a later date.

The snake is fat and the elephant has a long way to go to get to the end of the snake. Hopefully in 2009 and 2010 we’ll start seeing the leveling off of real estate values in San Diego County. There are some areas in some price ranges that are already leveling off. Unfortunately some of the higher end homes still have a sharp drop ahead.

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San Diego House Values           Local Real Estate Information

San Diego Real Estate Blog      San Diego Short Sales

San Diego Foreclosures            San Diego Green Homes

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San Diego Real Estate Bubble

October 22nd, 2008

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Real estate in San Diego has changed quite dramatically from a sellers market of just a few years ago to one of the best buyers markets in history. Foreclosures, Bank Owned, and REO’s are the things that home buying dreams are made of. This buyer’s dream market won’t last forever and if you’re considering buying in San Diego this could be the perfect time to jump in. This San Diego Real Estate Bubble can be great for first time home buyers!

San Diego was one of the first markets to slow down and feel the pain of a declining real estate market and will no doubt be one of the first ones out and on its way to recovery. In some of the price ranges of homes that are single family detached I’m starting to see a leveling off in prices. In certain price ranges there are bidding wars between buyers when the homes are priced well. I often get asked about San Diego real estate and about the question of value. I tell people that San Diego is one of the best places to own real estate and to call home and over the long term will hold its value very well. Let’s face it most people would love to call San Diego …. Home!

I would have to say that many areas of San Diego are not overpriced anymore. They might have hit bottom or close to it in specific price ranges especially first time home buyer price ranges. Many of the homes that are price in the $300,000 to $400,000 price ranges are moving fast when in good condition or priced to sell. Don’t miss out on this downturn in the San Diego Market – it could be the chance of a lifetime.

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San Diego Real Estate Blog      San Diego Short Sales

San Diego Foreclosures            San Diego Green Homes

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San Diego Foreclosure Trends

August 21st, 2008

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One of the trends I’m starting to see in the San Diego Real Estate Market is that buyers have been and are really starting to bid up the foreclosures. I’m starting to see foreclosures sell for more San Diego Foreclosurethan what a comparable short sale or regular sale “although in some areas of San Diego there are not too many of those” are selling for. What also needs to be considered is that most foreclosures are in poor condition compared to other homes or condos on the market. In many cases the yards are dead, they have been partially stripped, and the pride of ownership was gone once the homeowner new the bank was going to foreclose on them on and so on.

Short sales should be, in my opinion, not overlooked by home buyers in San Diego. Generally they are usually occupied by homeowners or renters and are usually in great condition. Homeowners are sometimes willing to repair items that home buyers want done where the bank owned properties are almost always sold as is. I truly believe that in many cases a buyer with a good buyer’s agent can find more value and a better home with a short sale rather than a foreclosure.

I hear buyers and inexperienced buyers agents voice their opposition to even looking at short sales in San Diego. I hear them say, short sales are a waste of time, short sales take way too long, the banks move way too slow on short sales and a buyer can lose interest San Diego Short Sales buying a short sale in San Diegoand decide not to buy a home and so on. Most of what I hear is true if you go about it the wrong way. When looking at short sales you need to look at the short sales that are far along in the process and are being handled by an experienced agent. If a short sale is brand new or less than 60 days on the market it is usually still in the early stages and can have several months to go before the bank will have a price for what they will take for the home. If you write an offer in the early stages you might not have an answer back from the bank for many months and sometimes not at all.

Inexperienced agents selling short sales are a major problem in the San Diego real estate market. We have negotiated well over 50 short sales on the listing end and we have a great system for getting them closed. Our experience in short sales is excellent. Some agents have no experience and quite honestly don’t know what they’re doing. If you’re considering showing short sales or buying a short sale make sure the short sale is far along in the process. As an agent one can look at the confidential remarks and see if the experienced agent has put in verbiage to show that the bank is willing to accept an offer at a certain dollar amount. Also look at the market time on how long the short sale has been on the market. The process usually takes at least 60 days before the bank will say what dollar amount will work for them. Call the agent who has the short sale and ask them where they are in the process. By speaking to an agent you will know if they are experienced and know what they’re talking about. After a while you will start know which agents selling short sales have experience and which ones don’t.

For an experienced short sale buyer’s agent and short sale listing agent call us today!

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San Diego House Values           Local Real Estate Information

San Diego Real Estate Blog      San Diego Short Sales

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