The spring buying season was a little longer than usual this year. Home sales gathered strength as the summer progressed. Pending home sales, for example, jumped 3.2% in July from the previous month (the sixth-straight monthly increase) and rose 12% from July 2008.
The $8,000 first-time homebuyer credit, which is due to expire after Nov. [...]

The feds are putting swindler Bernie Madoff’s homes on the market.
The U.S Marshall’s service is selling his 4,000 square foot Upper East Side flat. That’s the one where authorities arrested him in his bathrobe. It’s also where they found 100 checks worth $173 million that he was planning to send to relatives and friends [...]

There’s less than 80 days left to get the $8,000 federal tax credit for new homebuyers! Your escrow needs to BE CLOSED by November 30, 2009 and that includes the 30 - 45 days it will take to get your escrow closed once its in escrow.  What does this mean to you???  You need [...]

Wells Fargo confirmed today that it has fired the executive who partied in a foreclosed Malibu beach house this summer.
The Los Angeles Times first reported on Friday that 39 year old Cheronda Guyton, a Wells Fargo senior vice president responsible for foreclosed commercial properties and a seventeen year veteran of the bank, spent weekends [...]

For months the big story was how fast California home sales were rebounding as investors snapped up cheap, foreclosed homes. Now the sales and price trends are reversing.
In August the number of homes sold fell nearly 11% from July. Last month was the 14th in a row with a year-over-year sales increase, however.
The median sale [...]

ArtHop is this Saturday!!
September 12 from 6 to 9 pm.    Kick-Off starts at 5 PM
 
We have made the ArtHop maps easier to view and easy to print.  New, single-page versions list Arthop businesses and addresses. Below is a link…
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A Paint Explosion & Some Great Jazz at the ArtHop Kick-Off Kick-Off ArtHop with the Art [...]

ArtHop is this Saturday!!
September 12 from 6 to 9 pm.    Kick-Off starts at 5 PM
 
We have made the ArtHop maps easier to view and easy to print.  New, single-page versions list Arthop businesses and addresses. Below is a link…
http://www.facebook.com/l/bae0a;anewscafe.com/placeholder/arthop-maps-artists-hosts/
 
 
A Paint Explosion & Some Great Jazz at the ArtHop Kick-Off Kick-Off ArtHop with the Art [...]

Michael Barr, the Treasury Dept.’s assistant secretary for financial institutions, briefed Congress on the Administration’s various housing related programs on Sept. 9. Barr said 45 loan servicers accounting for 85% of the loans in the country had signed up for the six month old Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), which pays servicers to lower the [...]

Shasta County (Cottonwood - Cottonwood, California, US)

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24 (+ -) Acres along I-5. Zoned C2-DR Enterprise zone. Many possibilities. In mid ‘08 the intersection was up dated at Gas Point and Rhonda Rd. A survey showed this was the highest rated intersection in Cottonwood. Great location for fast food or a new hotel. Room for all [...]

Michael Barr, the Treasury Dept.’s assistant secretary for financial institutions, briefed Congress on the Administration’s various housing related programs on Sept. 9. Barr said 45 loan servicers accounting for 85% of the loans in the country had signed up for the six month old Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), which pays servicers to lower the [...]