Joseph & Cheryl Melendez's (melendezteam) Blog

This is a buyer's market so obviously the numbers are encouraging to them, not sellers.  But, if you think the market is stagnant, if you think people are sitting around waiting, you would be wrong.  It is not unusual for any property under $600,000, but especially for a bank owned one to have 6 ...

, The Kiplinger Editors have interesting data on Southern California.  It is important to mention because again, they are experts on California and their information is regional, not national.  What do they say?  Tourism is getting a huge boost because of how strong the Euro is right now.  "High ...

Real Estate Economics, a homebuilder consulting firm in Irvine has this to say about the Orange County housing market: "Opportunity/Risk Index currently resides slightly below equilibrium, but the trend is toward equilibrium.  Any O/R index above equilibrium represents market opportunity, and any...

This is probably the biggest hurdle the real estate industry has to get over in the minds of consumers.  Unfortunately a lot of the news out there is the dismal outlook for national housing.  Regions such as the mid-west, specific cities such as Detroit, or sub-prime havens such as Riverside and ...