Alta Real Estate

Featured Article

• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

Local Headlines

• Safest, Most Friendly Place to Get a Loan in Placer County

  Monday Jun 23 | via Auburn Journal 

  Getting approved for and securing a loan can seem like a daunting task. Often times it is confusing and stressful.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Placer County, CA, Roseville, CA, Mortgage, Home

• #1 Mortgage Lender in Placer County

  Monday Jun 23 | via Auburn Journal 

  I had such an amazing experience buying my new home I thought everyone should hear it! I have bought homes in the past and it was confusing, expensive and stressful; so naturally I was a bit wary of buying a ...

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Placer County, CA, Mortgage, Home, Roseville, CA

• Placer County sees modest home sales ...

  Tuesday Jun 17 | via Auburn Journal 

  As the summer buying season gets under way in Placer County, the region saw modest sales gains for the month of May.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Placer County, CA, Auburn, CA, Newcastle, CA, Lincoln, CA

• Developer bets on Lincoln, plans 2,000 houses on ranch tract

  Saturday Jun 14 | via Sacramento Bee Newspaper 

  Published 12:00 am PDT Saturday, June 14, 2008 Story appeared in BUSINESS section, Page D4 A Southern California developer is betting on another boom in Lincoln, buying 510 acres and planning 2,000 new homes in ...

  Comment?

  Related Topix: California, Real Estate, Housing, Foreclosures, Roseville, CA, Placer County, CA

• Placer: Two challengers raise development concerns

  May 24, 2008 | via Sacramento Bee Newspaper 

  Placer County Supervisor Bruce Kranz has taken a different path in raising money for his third election campaign.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Soda Springs, CA, Meadow Vista, CA, Foresthill, CA, Auburn, CA, Real Estate, Placer County, CA

Regional Headlines

• Californians feel pinch--and pinch pennies

  15 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures

• Good food gives chef satisfaction

  23 hrs ago | via Hattiesburg American 

  Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. If one is lucky he or she might get to make two or three pilgrimages over the course of their life.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?

  21 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  Most new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? ...

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Marketing, California, Foreclosures, Construction, William Lyon Homes, Home Listing, Home

• Another 'gimmick'

  22 hrs ago | via Fresno Bee 

  Governor's lottery plan gains few defenders. There's not much good news at the moment about the state budget -- it's overdue, as usual; there's no sign of agreement anytime soon; no permanent fix is in sight -- ...

  Comment?

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Nontraditional tenants occupy dark stores at malls

  Saturday | via Journal News 

  Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Housing, California, California Government

National Headlines

• Senate to resume work today on housing bill

  3 min ago | via NAFCU 

  July 7, 2008 - The Senate returns to work today and is scheduled to vote on a motion to invoke cloture on what remains to be debated in a housing bill, including $300 million in guarantees for mortgage ...

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• June slack for county's builders

  6 min ago | via The Columbian 

  Clark County's home-building industry turned in another lackluster month in June at a time when the summer construction season is usually kicking into gear.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Clark County, WA, Home Building, Home, Housing

• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  6 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY

• Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes

  3 hrs ago | via Earthlink 

  "I'd love to, but I'm single and I can't afford to buy anything on my own, nobody would give me a mortgage," explained Williams, a delivery driver who has just moved back home with his parents after his rent ...

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Wrexham, Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, World News, United Kingdom, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  8 min ago | via The Daily News 

  IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion