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14243 Ridge Oak Place, Valley Center, CA 92082
This home is one of a kind – you will see no other like it in Valley Center. This custom European design and unique decoration with magificent panoramic views will leave you breathless. Located in one of the most prestigous communities of Beautiful Valley Center, Ridge Ranch Estates.
Enter into the grand entry with 17ft soaring ceilings. An elegant and romantic master bedroom suite with fireplace and forever views leads into a oversize master bath with highly upgraded fixtures and fabulous Valentina tiles througout. Contemporary chefs kitchen with bosch appliances and flamboyant cabinets.
Contemporary Chefs Kitchen
3873 sq ft of absolute luxury on 4.73 acres is a home not to be missed – so come by and get a guided tour of this unforgettable masterpiece.
Priced @ $995,000 – $1,150,000.
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PAM AND JOANNA.
PAM PARTON: 760-580-1615
JOANNA: 760-580-1630
Valley Center's Bates Nut Farm
Bates nut farm is located in a picturesque valley deep in the heart of beautiful Valley Center, CA. It has become well known over the years for its special events held throughout the year on the 100 acre ranch. In 1921 Gilbert and Beatrice Bates moved their family to this beautiful spot. Here they raised their family along with a menagerie of different farm animals. Now 80 years later this family farm in Valley Center still provides joy and pleasure for visitors from all around the world. It’s certainly a very casual relaxing enviroment, one where everyone feels welcome. I think just a reminder of simpler times is something many of us like to relate to. A wonderful place to bring the family for a picnic and to feed the farm animals.
Farm antiques and tools line the walls of the Bates store which is filled with tasty treats, such as nuts, fudge,dried fruits and other gourmet delights. Lots of samples are available also if you want to try before you buy! All the nuts are roasted and packaged on the farm to ensure quality and freshness, which is part of the tradition.
Over 5000 sq ft of gifts can be found between the Farmers Daughter and the Bates gift shop. You will have so much fun browsing for that perfect gift -something for everyone.
For over 30 years families have made it an annual tradition to visit Valley Center’s famous pumkin patch in search of that perfect pumpkin.
Valley Center Pumkins
The pumkin patch is the largest, oldest and most famous in San Diego County. Arts and Craft Fairs, Antiques, Collectibles and Craft Markets, Fine Art Fairs and Car Shows are held thoughout the year….For groups of 15 or more you can take advantage of the educational tours;” Nuts for you” and “The Life of a Pumkin”
For more info on this delightful farm in Valley Center
Tel: 760-749-3333
For Information on Real Estate in Valley Center call Pam and Joanna – we live and work here and specialise in Valley Center Real Estate.
PAM PARTON: 760-580-1615 JOANNA WOOLLEY: 760-580-1630
Quick Tips for San Diego Homeowners on Short Sales and Your Credit
One of the most frequent questions that homeowners want to know is what happens to their credit score as the result of a short-sale. Here are a few points to remember.
1) When you negotiate a short-sale, the homeowner may still owe the difference between the mortgage balance and the discounted sales price. This amount can still be collected via a “Deficiency Judgement” If granted, this judgement may adversely affect the homeowners and their credit report (not unlike other judgements).
2) The best way to avoid the deficiency judgement is to ask the bank to agree to accept “Payment in full without pursuit of any deficiency judgement.”
3) Remember that the difference between the mortgage balance and the short sale may be declared as income on their tax return by means of a “1099.”
In dealing with any short sale, the homeowner should always speak with their accountant and/ or attorney to see how this sale will affect them.
content courtesy of Brian Olenik, Corinthian Title.
Call Pam and Joanna for more information on some great deals in North County San Diego.
PAM PARTON 760-580-1615 JOANNA WOOLLEY 760-580-1630
Guys – the statistics are out and they speak for themselves; women out-purchase us in the real estate market two-to-one! National data for the year ending last June reveals that single women accounted for 21% of all home purchases, to 10% of purchases for single men. That may just be an eye-opener for many of us in the business. Such a significant demographic group deserves to be both recognized and well-served by the real estate and financing industries. Click on the link below to read an excellent article on this subject posted by Marilyn Kennedy Malia on Bankrate.com:
“4 Tips for Single, Female Homebuyers”
Paul Gonzales, Sales Manager, Countywide Mortgage (760) 746-7388 or paulforloans@aol.com
Home Prices Rise
Home sale prices in Southern California showed new energy in January, bouncing 8.6% from the same month one year earlier — a period when the market was inundated with steeply discounted bank-owned properties.
Compared with a very strong December, the median fell 6.1% to $271,500 in January, ending eight consecutive months of price appreciation or stability in the Southland, MDA DataQuick, a San Diego real estate research firm, quoted Tuesday.
The month-to-month decline was likely in part to the higher percentage of cheaper Inland Empire homes that sold in January compared with December as buyers in pricier areas stopped searching during the holidays and investors and first-time buyers made up a larger share of shoppers. Read the rest of this entry »
CALIFORNIA HOME PRICES SHOW YEAR-TO YEAR GAIN FOR FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS!!
This is great news!
INCREASE IN CALIFORNIA HOME SALES
The median price of a home in California experienced its first year-to year gain in over two years during the month of November 2009, as the California housing market continued recent trends in terms of prices, supply and sales.
The monthly median home price crossed the $300,000 threshold in November with a median of $304,520, up 2.4 percent from the October median price of $297,500 and up 5.8 percent from $287,880 a year earlier.The situation has improved greatly from a year ago during the worst of the financial crisis, when the median price had registered 41.3 percent year-to-year decline.
After a 59 percent peak-to-trough decline, the California median home price has increased 24.1 percent from a trough of $245,170 that occurred in February 2009. The increase in price has been sustained by a combination of lean supply and high demand, the latter triggered by historically high affordability. By comparison, the National Assoc of Realtors national median price for existing single family homes, which experienced a 29 percent peak-to-trough decline, has increased by 4.7 percent from its trough of $164,00 in January to $171,900 in November 2009.
Nine consecutive month-to month increases in the California median price have been the result of the lean inventory conditions throughout the year. The MLS-based unsold inventory index for California has averaged 4.8 months since the start of the year, well below the 7 month long run average. By comparison, the national unsold inventory index for single family homes has averaged 8.4 months over the year. Inventory levels in both California and the US have trended down for most of the year. As for sales, California returned to pre-peak levels of sales in late 2008 and sustained them through 2009.
With Sales of 536,720 homes in November, the market was 4.6 percent lower than the October sales figures of 562,400, but 4.7 percent above the November 2008 figure of 512,840. Sales throughout the year have averaged 545,600, compared with the pre-peak monthly average over the 2000-2002 period of 537,300 homes. Over the 2000-2002 period, US sales of existing homes averaged 4.8 million homes, compared with the low-to mid-4 million range of sales that the national market experienced from late 2007 until late this year when sales finally exceed the 5 million threshold.
Call Pam and Joanna if you are thinking of buying or selling a home.
Voted “Best in Client Satisfaction Real Estate Agents for 2009 and 2010 – fewer than 7 percent of all licensed real estate agents in San Diego recieve this award.
Pam Parton 760-580-1615 Joanna Woolley 760-580-1630
Content Courtesy of: Robert A. Kleinhenz , Ph.D., Deputy Chief Economist
5 Great San Diego County Christmas Events
There’s no where quite like San Diego at this time of year – how many places can you think of in the U.S.A where you can still be running around in your shorts and sipping mimosas on the patio at this time of year? Of course we do miss out on all the fun things like shovelling our way through 5 feet of snow and hours of power cuts from ice on the utility lines. But for the most part we do still have all of the traditional christmas activities plus the good weather to go with it……so I think all of us who live here in this part of the country are really very lucky. Have a Happy Christmas everyone!
Here are 5 great Christmas events to try out……………….
- San Diego Botanic Gardens: Don’t miss the garden lights at the San Diego Botanic Gardens. The Garden is transformed into a dazzling winter wonderland with over 100,000 sparkling lights illuminating the Garden for a magical holiday experience. Many of these lights are LED, which are much brighter than regular lights. Enjoy the ponsettia garden festively decorated with many different varieties. There are also horse drawn rides, holiday crafts, visits with Santa and live music and refreshments.
Dates and Location: 230 Quail Gardens, Encinitas,CA December 10 -23, 26-30, 2009 http://www.sdbgarden.org/
- Escondido Center for the Art: Two great performances to take the younger ones of the family to:
The Christmas Gift: A magical box travels through time to complete a genarational cycle that makes the Christmas wish of Uncle Max come true. A heart warming story told through drams and dance about love, life and Christmas.
Santa’s Christmas Tree: Two bad elves are banished from the North Pole. They ransomed Santa’s Christmas Tree. Will he get it back? Will the children recieve their toys on Christmas day?
Dates and Location: December 12th, 2009 at 3.30 p.m. Center Theater http://www.artcenter.org/performances/
- Watch the annual migration of the California gray whales to the warm breeding grounds off the coast of Baja California. Glimpse these peaceful giants of the sea from Cabrillo National Monument or go on a special whale watching cruise. 619-557-5450
- Tri Wellness Center presents an Evening of Healing Sounds with Deep Deoja, Peter Andrews and Maynard Evans. Surround yourself with the transforming sounds of Singing Bowls, Didjeridoo, Flutes, Bells, Gongs and Voice. The body heals itself in a state of deep relaxation. Using sound and music to evoke the “relaxation response” is one of the simplest and mose effective ways to heal body, mind and spirit.
Dates and Location: December 18th at 6.30 p.m. 6250 El Camino Real in Carlsbad. http://www.tricitywellness.com/
- Mission San Luis Rey offers Christmas at the Mission at one of the most breathtaking settings in North San Diego County – Mission San Luis Rey, a National Historic Landmark Founded in 1798, the mission is known as the “King of the Missions” the largest of the 21 California Missions.
Dates and Location: December 19th, 2009 Oceanside, California http://www.sanluisrey.org/
Pam Parton 760-580-1615 Joanna Woolley 760-580-1630
Fannie Mae is implementing the new Deed for Lease Program under which qualifying homeowners facing foreclosure will be able to stay in their homes by signing a lease connection with the voluntary transfer of the property deed back to the lender. This program does not include a repurchase option.
“The Deed for Lease Program provides an additional option for qualifying homeowners who are facing foreclosure and are not eligible for a loan modification” states Jay Ryan, Vice President of Fannie Mae. “This new program helps to eliminate some of the uncertainty of foreclosure, keeping families and tenants in their homes during a transitional period, and helps to stabilize neighborhoods and communities because of prices dropping further from abandoned houses available. It hopefully will soften the social and financial impact on homeowners loosing their homes.
The new program is designed for borrowers who don’t qualify for or have not been able to obtain other loan work-out solutions, such as a loan modification. Under Deed for Lease, borrowers transfer their property back to the lender by completing a deed in lieu of foreclosure, and then lease back the house at a current market rate. Read the rest of this entry »
Current Market Trends for Fallbrook and Bonsall CA
Fallbrook / Bonsall Market Trends
Fallbrook and Bonsall are areas we havent watched much lately, but there has been some significant activity in these two areas that is worth a quick look.
This area consists of mostly rural type properties on larger lots. There arent really very many so-called Average homes in Fallbrook and Bonsall. They are usually pretty unique with character all their own.
But as we take a look at our chart here, the average list price shows it to be $905,776.
That figure might shy away many prospective buyers, but a closer look and a more true picture of the values in this area is shown in the Sold and Pending rows of the chart.
It is true that there are many spectacular properties that are priced well over a million dollars and well worth every penny of it, but you can also find some very good values in the Fallbrook / Bonsall area too.
The average Sold price is $422,690 with and average square footage of 2331. Now that is still quite affordable and reasonable for most buyers today.
If you are tired of battling against other buyers for smaller properties in other San Diego County cities, why not take a quick jont up to Fallbrook and Bonsall and see what they have to offer. You may be quite surprised at what you find and Im sure you will be pleased by the unique properties and scenery you will see.
If you would like more information on Fallbrook or Bonsall properties, give us a call or browse the MLS through our VIP home seach on our home page.
We are always here to help, and we answer our phones.
Pam and Joanna
760-580-1615 or 760-580-1630
San Diego lets Celebrate
It’s that time of year again - SIZZLING HOT summer weather and time for San Diego County to celebrate 4th July. Where ever you live in San Diego County there will be firework events to enjoy. Did you know that San Diego has been selected as one of the top ten places in the Nation to celebrate 4th July?
There have been some cancellations due to the tight budget restraints but for the most part Fireworks are as usual. We have put together a list of the displays scheduled throughout the County of San Diego. So just for one day let your cares slip away, get out of the house, drop the chores, relax kick back with your family and friends and enjoy 4th July. Read the rest of this entry »
