San Diego real estate blog - Peter Toner

The Federal Reserve reported that the net worth of our country’s households is up to $48.5 trillion in assets after debt, as of December 2004 increasing $2 trillion from the 3 months before.
After mortgage debt homes in the U.S. are worth a net $9.7 trillion, 13% more than last year.
The increase is due to the [...]

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Safer consumer times ahead for all of us! A new law goes into effect in June 2005 that will ensure the protection of your personal financial information. We say it’s about time and long over due for everyone to do the right thing.
The Fair & Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA) is the [...]

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Based on the California Association of Realtors report published in March 2005 the California Condo Market is on the climb:
Condo sales have gone up to 20% since 2000 and detached home sales has gone up 32%.
44% of all condominium buyers are single, while only 24% of singles are detached home buyers.
Condos cost less to [...]

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Technical or Traditional? According to the California Association of Realtors’, 62% of all first-time home buyers used the Internet for conducting research at the beginning of the home-buying process, while more than 50% of repeat buyers continued with their traditional methods relying more on their agent as their source of information according to the [...]

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