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Real Estate News

  • New bill seeks to make some property fees deductible

    A state assemblyman has introduced legislation aimed at easing and simplifying property tax payments.

  • Upside-down borrowers face little-known tax deadline

    With about half of all mortgaged homes in the Bakersfield area stubbornly under water, a critical deadline is looming that hardly anyone seems to know about.

  • Housing market improving...slowly

    Real estate experts are issuing year-end reports on the 2011 housing market, and by all accounts both the Bakersfield area and nation as a whole are on a heartening but agonizingly slow road to recovery.

  • Crabtree housing report: Numbers point to strengthening market

    Home sales in the Bakersfield area were slow in December, which is typical during the holiday season, but there are still signs that bode well for the long-term health of the housing market, according to the Preliminary Crabtree Report, a monthly gauge of the local housing market prepared by Affiliated Appraisers.

  • Investors snatching up single-family homes

    Investors are storming Kern County with cash offers to buy homes outright. Most are keeping the houses for rental income, but a few are fixing them up and reselling at a profit.

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