Real Estate

Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Preparing to sell your Irvine home?

by Robert Mack August 10, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

In today’s market and economic conditions, selling your Irvine home maybe a chore to be reckoned with. It is difficult to get your asking price, nevertheless, not impossible. It all depends on a variety of circumstances, and a bit of luck, if I might add. 1. First and foremost, your agent: The agent plays a [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Orange County Supplementary taxes

by Robert Mack August 8, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

The supplementary tax bill was introduced in the State of California on July 1st 1983. It is a rather intricate assessment, but I’ll try, for the benefit of some of our readers, to make it as simple as possible. Most of you know what it is. Simply put: when a property changes hands (or after [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Effects of adverse economic situation

by Robert Mack August 7, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

As we are all aware of the slow real estate pace not only in Irvine, Orange County, but across the board, many brokers and real estate professionals believe in changing course in order to put bread on their tables. Some may not be as hasty as to quit the trade altogether yet others simply give [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Property taxes and declining property values

by Robert Mack August 6, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

This is going to be an informative blog for those who are not aware of the relationship between declining Irvine real estate property values and Orange County’s Net Assessed property taxes. As real estate professionals, The Mack Team of Century21 – Irvine, is committed to inform, educate and serve its clients (past and present). One [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Choosing the right agent

by Robert Mack August 5, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

If—and this is a BIG if—you are able to choose the right real estate professional, commonly known as agent or broker, might make a world of difference in your endeavors in purchasing your Irvine home. But how does one do that? To be quite frank with you, I don’t know the exact answer myself, it [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Why consider buying property in Irvine?

by Robert Mack August 5, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

Relatively speaking, Irvine is a new city within the bounds of Orange County. I don’t intend to tire the reader with facts and statistics about the city; rather I’d like to put these facts and some of these statistics not in the form of sentences in paragraphs but as bullet points for quick visual reference. [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – New home buyers and property tax blunders

by Robert Mack August 4, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

Although this doesn’t happen frequently but a property tax mix-up may generate a tremendous headache for the new Irvine home buyer. What I’m about to convey to my readers is a true story and a sad and frustrating at that. It might be to the reader’s advantage to read through. An Irvine foreclosed property was [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Status of your property taxes on-line

by Robert Mack August 4, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

We live in the age of web technology where the space around us is filled with trillions of fast-traveling morsels of data called information. The web allows us to access such information almost immediately by a few strokes of the keyboard. One piece of information that may be useful to a potential buyer of a [...]

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Irvine Real Estate Link, CA – Prospective Irvine home buyers

by Robert Mack August 3, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

My wife and I are a team, The Mack Team, and live in Northpark Square in Irvine. We mainly concentrate on Orange County, specifically Irvine homes, and hardly deviate from this area. This is not to say that we will not consider other close by areas, but to say that our main focus is on [...]

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Irvine, CA Real Estate – Why buy a home – Part 2

by Robert Mack August 3, 2008 Irvine Real Estate

First and foremost reason to purchase a home, in my opinion, is simply to own it, owning a piece of America, and for those with small children, to grow in a home rather than in an apartment. To establish roots. While this may be a sentimental reason many buy homes for investment purposes, others buy [...]

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