Discovery Bay Real Estate News

Tuesday May 14 | via San Jose Mercury News 

Despite a monthly uptick in default filings against delinquent homeowners, foreclosure activity continued a long-term downward march in April, according to a report Tuesday.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Contra Costa County, CA, Alameda County, CA, Santa Clara County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Business News

Tuesday May 14 | via SFGate 

The superheated real estate market is causing many disappointed buyers to get shoved aside by deep-pocked investors who can outbid them.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Berkeley, CA, Home Listing, Home, Contra Costa County, CA

Monday May 13 | via Patch.com 

Hercules has 180 homes still in some stage of foreclosure, according to information released today by Realty Trac.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Hercules, CA, Pinole, CA, Home Listing, Home, Housing

Friday May 10 | via Patch.com 

Concord has 533 homes still in some stage of foreclosure, according to information released today by Realty Trac.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Clayton, CA, Concord, CA, Home Listing, Home, Housing, Contra Costa County, CA

Friday May 10 | via Patch.com 

El Cerrito has 56 homes still in some stage of foreclosure, according to information released today by Realty Trac.

Related Topix: El Cerrito, CA, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home, Contra Costa County, CA

1 hr ago | via The LookOut news 

As Redevelopment Agencies unwind throughout California, the State is threatening to force Santa Monica to sell part of a once-in-a-generation "dream site" in the heart of Downtown.

Related Topix: California, Personal Finance, Mortgage

11 hrs ago | via CBS Local 

You've been told time and time again that buying a home is a better financial option than renting.

Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Best of 2007, California, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Downtown (San Francisco, CA), Downtown (San Jose, CA)

16 hrs ago | via Bloomberg 

Sales of previously owned U.S. homes climbed in April to the highest level in more than three years even as the market remained constrained by a lack of inventory and strict borrowing rules.

Related Topix: Real Estate, Ben Bernanke, Financial Markets, California

Tuesday | via Los Gatos Weekly-Times 

At least, that's the way it appears when cities begin walking away from the obligations to their employees the way some underwater homeowners sought indemnification during the residential market crash.

Related Topix: Pension, Personal Finance, California, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Retirement, Opinion

Yesterday | via Dr. Housing Bubble Blog 

California government benefitting from rising property values: Low rates and higher home values increase property tax collections.

Related Topix: California, Los Angeles County, CA, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

5 min ago | via Lethbridge Herald 

TD Bank Group says it had a "solid" second quarter, with growth in most of its major sectors, but came up short of analyst estimates.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

1 hr ago | via Ledger-Enquirer.com 

The open house on a leafy street near South Miami featured a snack wagon with cupcakes and chilled beverages, but the real draw was the newly listed house for sale for $435,000. Over a two-hour stretch on a Sunday afternoon, 44 groups of couples and families streamed through the well-kept 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath house on an outsized lot.

Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Home Buying, Real Estate, Fort Lauderdale, FL

1 hr ago | via Ledger-Enquirer.com 

He was self-employed. When his clients dried up, so did his software business. Reid sold his car, ate one meal a day, and paid his taxes with credit cards.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Maxine Waters

1 hr ago | via Ledger-Enquirer.com 

QUESTION: My husband and I co-signed a loan for our son and his now ex-wife. Our son stayed in the home but fell behind on the payments, and the home was in foreclosure.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Economics News, Bankruptcy

1 hr ago | via Bradenton.com 

They're not writing poems or romantic novels - just short notes to sellers, telling them how happy they'd be to buy their homes.

Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Real Estate, Broward County, FL, Coral Springs, FL, Fort Lauderdale, FL