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Yes, you heard that right. Roseville Strawberry Festival is back so plan on taking Mom and all the family on Mother’s Day weekend to Placer County fairgrounds and eat some locally grown strawberries and enjoy the fun! Click on the link above to check out the cost, a google map to Placer County Fairgrounds and what you will find besides strawberries at this year’s Roseville Strawberry Festival. If you happen to be a home buyer thinking of buying a home in Roseville, CA below are links to homes for sale in Roseville that are bank owned. Lot of good real estate in Roseville. Foreclosed ... Read Full Story

Ask Your Real Estate Question It’s time to Ask your Real Estate Question to Sacramento Real Estate Broker Gena Riede. Dear Gena, My husband and I moved back east for a job transfer. We left our home (but we are still paying on it). We didn’t sell it since prices are so low. When will the prices go back up? Living Back East ~ Dear Living Back East, It will be quite a while before prices go back up. First we must get through all of the foreclosures. Then we will need to have one year of what is called “stabilization” before the value ... Read Full Story

Placer County real estate market report is ready! Comparing April 2009 to May of 2009 in Placer county, the real estate sales were very similar to each other. The only major difference was that there were more homes on the market for sale in April than there were in May. For a look at specific cities in Placer County make sure you click on Neighborhood Market Statistics where you can check out each month and several years. As a whole for the Placer County here is the Real Estate Market Report for May 2009 1,921 homes for sale 336 homes SOLD $346,623 Average SOLD ... Read Full Story

You can ALWAYS click on Neighborhood/County Market Statistics right under the blog header each month and chose the County: Sacramento Placer El Dorado Yolo and then the month and year you are interested in knowing the home sales and average home price for each zip code. Do remember, this is a starting point for home buyers and home sellers, not an ending point. In order to know more about a specific neighborhood, simply contact me at 916-417-2699 with the neighborhood you live in or where you want to buy a house in and I will run the home sales for that area within a ... Read Full Story

Today, a home buyer called about a house for sale that he saw on Sacramento Real Estate Voice and wanted to know more about it. The house is for sale in Granite Bay, a community of upscale homes where there are friendly gated, guarded gated and non-gated neighborhoods. If you would like to take a tour of some of the Granite Bay neighborhoods , just click on the link. While speaking to the Granite home buyer, he asked an interesting question…What makes a mansion a mansion? I thought it was a good question that many other home buyers might wonder about. Usually, a 6,000 ... Read Full Story