Steve & Lisa Haussler
Coldwell Banker
388 S. Lake Avenue,
Pasadena, CA 91101
office: 626.844.2245
Email: steve@haussler.com
Coldwell Banker
388 S. Lake Avenue,
Pasadena, CA 91101
office: 626.844.2245
Email: steve@haussler.com
Exceptional Value & Style
736 North Garfield Avenue, #202
Pasadena, CA 91104
News & Press
Bid to Curb Mortgage Tax Break Falters
- Author: James R. Hagerty, The Wall Street Journal
- The latest effort to scale back some tax deductions on mortgage interest, one of the nation's most-enduring tax breaks, is finding little support in Congress.
President Barack Obama's latest budget proposal, released in February, includes a provision that would shrink deductions f... 
Good Real Estate News: Home Equity Is Rising Again
- Author: Kenneth R. Harney, The Washington Post
- Is that some piece of rosy propaganda put out by housing lobbyists to stimulate more home buying? Not unless you consider Federal Reserve economists to be shills for the real estate industry. The Fed conducts massive research into mortgage balances and home-value changes in hundreds of local markets...
Housing Momentum Builds but Perils Persist
- Author: James R. Hagerty, The Wall Street Journal
- There's new evidence the housing market is healing after a four-year slump, but the danger of further price drops remains amid persistent job-market weakness, according to The Wall Street Journal's quarterly housing survey.
Inventories of homes listed for sale are down sharply acr...
California's Home Inventory Shrinks To 5-Year Low
- Author: Jim Carlton, The Wall Street Journal
- California's inventory of unsold, previously owned homes shrank to a five-year low in December, in another sign that the state may be coming out of its worst housing slump in decades.
The supply of unsold single-family homes dropped to 3.8 months from 5.6 months a year ago and 16.6 mo...
California Home Prices Inch Up In December
- Author: Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times
- California home prices ticked up 1.1% in December from the month prior, according to data released today, continuing a slow but steady trend of improvement for the Golden State’s housing market.
The median price paid for a home in December was $264,000, up from $261,000 in November,...
Mortgage Rates Back Below 5%, Freddie Mac Says
- Author: E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times
- Freddie Mac's widely watched survey of the mortgage market is out this morning with another round of good news for borrowers: The third straight week of falling interest rates has taken the 30-year fixed loan below 5% again. It's hard not to wonder how long this can last.
Accordin...
Going to sell the house? Don't wait for 'spring' in February
- Author: Mary Umberger, Chicago Tribune
- It's nearly spring -- at least that's the case in the parallel, slightly weird universe of real estate.
Traditionally, the "spring" home buying season, theoretically the busiest time in the marketplace, begins the day after the Super Bowl. Why this is so has never been c...
U.S. Home Prices Are Flat, With Bay Area Showing Most Improvement
- Author: Alejandro Lazo, Los Angeles Times
- San Francisco and Tampa, Fla., sit at opposite corners of the country and at opposite ends of the housing recovery.
As home prices are picking up nationally, the San Francisco Bay Area has shown improvement for seven consecutive months and posted the strongest gains in home prices in Octo...
Another Big Gain in Existing-Home Sales as Buyers Respond to Tax Credit
- Author: National Association Of Realtors
- Existing-home sales rose again in November as first-time buyers rushed to close sales before the original November 30 deadline for the recently extended and expanded tax credit, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Existing-home sales – including single-family, townhom...
Nine Consecutive Gains for Pending Home Sales
- Author: National Association Of Realtors
- Pending home sales have risen for nine months in a row, a first for the series of the index since its inception in 2001, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The Pending Home Sales Index ("PHSI"), a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in October, in...
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index Edges Up
- Author: The Conference Board
- The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which had declined in October, increased slightly in November. The Index now stands at 49.5 (1985=100), up from 48.7 in October. The Present Situation Index was virtually unchanged at 21.0 versus 21.1 last month. The Expectations Index increased to 68....
October Home Sales Rise 10.1% From September
- Author: The Associated Press
- Home sales surged for the second month in a row in October, climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit.
Home sales nationwide are now up nearly 37 percent from their bottom in January, data showed, though they are s...
Loan Ceiling Extended
- Author: Bob Tedeschi, The New York Times
- Buyers of homes in high-priced markets have some reason to cheer: the federal government recently extended through 2010 the maximum dollar amount for “conforming loans.” This will probably mean better options for borrowers who might otherwise have had to take out “jumbo” mort...
Rates On 30-year Mortgages Remain Below 5%
- Author: The Associated Press
- Rates on 30-year mortgages stayed below 5 percent this week but remained above the record set earlier this year, Freddie Mac said Thursday.
The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 4.83 percent, down from 4.91 percent last week, the mortgage company said. Last year at this ti...
September Sales & Price Report
- Author: California Association Of Realtors
- Home sales increased 2.1 percent in September in California compared with the same period a year ago, while the median price of an existing home declined 7.3 percent, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported today.
"The market’s momentum continued in Septem...
Economists Say Recession To End In Third Quarter
- Author: Ryan Carter, Staff Writer, Whittier Daily News
WEST COVINA - More than 90 percent of economists predict the recession will end this year, according to a closely watched assessment of the economy released Wednesday. But the way back to economic health won't be easy, economists, businesses owners and the unemployed said.
About 74...
Home Buyers Jump In As Prices Plunge In Pasadena
- Author: Dan Abendschein, Staff Writer, Pasadena Star-News
PASADENA - Two years ago, owning a three-bedroom craftsman home in Pasadena was a dream Arturo and Olga Avon could never hope to attain.
Today, with the median home price lower than it has been for at least five years, the Pasadena couple - and many others like them - got a rare crack ...
