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Simi Valley and Moorpark Real Estate Market Data Through May 2008 The following information contains the year to date numbers for the Simi Valley Moorpark Housing Market taken from the Ventrua County Regional Data Share MLS.   The number of homes selling are picking back up.  Prices continue to decline and financing is becoming harder [...]

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Simi Valley Home Buying Guide for 2008

by Ted Mackel on May 19, 2008

As an adjunct to my Perfect Storm Blog post. I went to NAR’s website and looked at the historical sales data, to study the trends as I am constantly asked how long will a recovery take or when will the bottom hit. Those waiting for the bottom will likely miss it as the laggards in [...]

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Planing on selling your Simi Valley or Moorpark home? This table was create so you could get an idea of who the buyers for your Simi Valley or Moorpark property are and what they can afford. The taxes and insurance are based on homes in the Ventura County – Simi Valley Area. Insurance rates may [...]

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The following Blog post Jump Start the Housing Industry by Mandating Blackberry Usage by Matthew Ferrara & Co is something I have been talking about for long time. Yeah, I am more of a techie than most, but these tech tools are being used by the public and they are being used more by the [...]

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What is REO?

by Ted Mackel on May 7, 2008

What is REO? Here’s one for the longtail and a sort of WIKI entry to my BLOG!!! In any business it is hard not to slip into the industry vernacular and forget that our audience may not really be following. REO is an acronym for Real Estate Owned. Here in Simi Valley and Moorpark an [...]

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Lock Boxes (Part II)

by Ted Mackel on April 27, 2008

In part one I discussed why it is important to have a lockbox on your listed home.  Part II will discuss the iBox vs. an old style combination box Below is a picture of a combination style lock box.  While these are effective in providing an extra key, once the combination is given out there [...]

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How to Jazz up that old Virtual (slide show) Tour.

by Ted Mackel on April 25, 2008

Almost every listing I take now will have a video tour hosted on Wellcomemat.com, Google Video and Youtube.  However that old slide show virtual tour will now be two tours.  I was introduced to a new site yesterday and I will be exploring it with my listings.  the site is Animoto.com.  Below are an examples [...]

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