Sales Stats: Active listings in SCV at this time last year: 2,358 Current active listings: 1,735 This means we currently have 27% fewer homes currently on the market as compared with last year. Average Sale Price at this time last year: $551,100 Current average sale price: $458,081 This means our average sales price is down approx. 17% from last year. Average Days On Market of Sold homes last year at this time: 108 Current average days on market: 78 This means the homes that have sold this year have been on the market 30 days less or are selling 28% faster this year. Total Closed Sales this time last year – 1,966 Total Closed Sale Year to Date – 1,543 This means there have been 423 fewer sales this year or 22% fewer sales. 07/30/2008

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Here is the 24 hour report for 05-30-2008 activity in the Santa Clarita Real Estate market according to the Santa Clarita MLS. This information is provided directly from our local MLS. Please feel free to check back often for the most accurate and updated information available in the Santa Clarita area for local real estate reports and statistics. For more free reports and Santa Clarita Real Estate visit http://www.homeinfoasap.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   New Listings: 16 Out of the new listings... REO: 5 Short sale: 0 Active Listings: 1856 Avg. Days on Market: 110 Pending - Daily New: 13 Pending & Backup Offers-Total: 550 Avg. Days on Market: 67 May-Closed to date: 219 Avg. Days on Market: 73... 05/30/2008

You can see from any national average from National Association of Realtors or even our more local California Association of Realtors that Open houses do not sell homes very often.  In fact you could even say it is rare.I can compare this with citation issuance when I was that hated motor cop.  If we were to write X amount of citations per day per Motor officer, the impact was not from those independent citations.  I guess there might have been a slight impact per person.  But the majority of the impact came from the other people driving by while the officer was citing the other traffic violators.  (I must explain that I always gave the benefit of the doubt to everyone I pulled over and if they "got it" they "got let go")  So I would say Open Houses do not sell houses, but to get to hav... 02/09/2008

Here is the 24 hour report for 11-13-2007 activity in the Santa Clarita Real Estate market according to the Santa Clarita MLS. This information is provided directly from our local MLS. Please feel free to check back often for the most accurate and updated information available in the Santa Clarita area for local real estate reports and statistics. For more free reports and Santa Clarita Real Estate visit http://www.homeinfoasap.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Now for the Numbers... New Listings: 17 ---- Active Listings: 2,426 ---- Avg. Days on Market: 97 ---- Pending Listings: 254 ---- Closed Escrows: 1 ---- YTD Closed Escrows: 2,599 ---- Avg. Days on Market: 74 ----   *Information deemed reliable,... 11/13/2007

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Wednesday evening the Los Angeles Regional Planning Commission yet again postponed any decision on the Castaic Northlake development. The developer, SunCal, threw the residents of Castaic, and the planning commission another bone, and that came in the form of another park - a 10 acre soccer park! This new offer is an attempt to sweeten the pot, one that already includes a graded pad for a much needed Castaic High School that the William S Hart Union School District desperately wants. By adding this 10 acre park to the plan, its estimated that it could provide for up to 3 to 14 soccer fields right in the middle of Northlake. A sure benefit for the entire area of Castaic, not just Northlake. When the opportunity presented itself for opposition, no one came forward to speak against the pro... 06/21/2007

The highly anticipated new phase of the Northlake development by SunCal in Castaic, is set for a commission hearing at LA County this Wednesday June 20, 2007. The hearing for this case, which was originally heard in April 2007 is being continued to this week so that some amendments for the project could be presented and heard. Northlake, is a proposed 670 acre development upon which SunCal is devising to build and allow for the following:- 1,053 single family lots- 645 multi-family residences- 1 commercial lot- 4 industrial lots- 48 open space lots- 1 private recreation center lot- 1 school siteThe proposed school site will be that of Castaic's much awaited first public high school. That very contentious matter has left Castaic residents eagerly awaiting a school nearby to be built, and... 06/18/2007

-- Rent and Security Deposits -- (continued)The law is very specific on the handling of residential security deposits. A security depost MUST be refundable. The landlord has 21 days after the tenant has moved to return all unused portions of the security, with a written statement showing how the remainder was used (to clean, repair, damage, replace windows, etc.) . A landlord may only deduct from the security deposit the cleaning cost necessary to return the unit to the same level of cleanliness it was in at the beginning of the tenancy". A landlord who keeps deposits without reason for more than three weeks after the tenant has moved may be subject to damages up to $600.00. When i was in college i rented a home and had a very shady landlord who tried to pull a fast one on me. I read up... 12/28/2006