Anaheim Hills Blog

Today it is an honor and privilege to officially welcome our friend and colleague ‘Scott Smith' to the Mike Kelly Team. For those of us who have the honor of knowing Scott during the past several years, let there be no doubt about his sincere desire to become a top producer among us, while buildi...

The Federal Reserve today said it will continue to buy up to $1.25 trillion in mortgage securities by the end of this year and that it is maintaining its target for a benchmark interest rate at between zero and 0.25 percent. Some market watchers have hoped the Fed would buy more securities than p...

As reported in the Register's South Coast Homes blog, a luxurious beachfront property along Emerald Bay's "street of gold" closed escrow two days ago for what could be the third-highest sale price in Orange County history. It also could be just the ninth home in the county to fetch more than $20 ...

Matthew Padilla of the OC Register Blogs..... "7 lenders escape state foreclosure moratorium" Bank of America, Citigroup and EMC Mortgage Corp. are among seven companies that have received permanent exemptions to California's 90-day foreclosure moratorium, which began last week. More than 20 othe...

Remember those loans for 125% of the value of a home? That's what comes to mind with this from National Mortgage News (hat tip to broker Lou Pacific): The 105% loan-to-value ratio limit on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's program to refinance underwater borrowers could be raised to increase participa...

The U.S. housing market will rebound eventually, according to a Harvard University report. Demographics and under building are conspiring to up demand and revive home prices. But that day still is a long way off, perhaps not until sometime after 2010, the university's Joint Center for Housing Stu...

This week, June 27th & 28th the Mike Kelly Team will sell 7 ‘auction' properties in excess of $10 million in the aggregate. Wishful thinking? No! Part of a deliberate plan; each ‘auction' property will sell this Saturday or Sunday; or placed into a category entitled "Sold, subject to seller's con...

The start of summer...... (edit/delete) Summer officially started Saturday night around 10:45 pm PST. Father's Day is the first full day of summer....my best is offered to all ‘Fathers" in celebration.... This week was particularly interesting; as we built momentum towards the big auction days ne...

Summer officially started Saturday night around 10:45 pm PST. Father's Day is the first full day of summer....my best is offered to all ‘Fathers" in celebration.... This week was particularly interesting; as we built momentum towards the big auction days next weekend....Saturday the full page ad ...

June 14th, 2009, 12:08 am · 5 Comments · posted by Jon Lansner/ocregister.com sOCial sunday will frequently explore a real estate angle to blogging, Twitter, etc. Today, Orange County entrepreneur Greg Robertson of Dwellicious.com offers his thoughts on how should a real estate agent or a brokera...