Humboldt County Real Estate - Homes in Humboldt

October 2009 was an extremely active month, the most active for sales in the last 2 years!  We sold 135 homes in Humboldt County, but only saw 194 New Listings come on the market.  This continues the trend of a tightening inventory.  In September, we had 13 months of inventory (13.48).  October h...

President Obama on Friday, Nov. 6 signed a bill extending and expanding the Federal Tax Credit for Home Buyers. The bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday and the U.S. Senate late Wednesday.The tax credit will be extended through April 30, 2010, with a 60-day extension if a bindi...

Months of Inventory is a statistic used to describe the current housing inventory.  It is a simple, but effective way to judge the market activity/scarcity.  Months of  inventory is the number of months it would take to sell all of the current listings at the rate of sales for a given month. Exam...

It occured to me that many of the helpful tools that I utilize on a daily basis are completely unknown to the public at large.  One of these tools is a website: The Humboldt County GIS.  A GIS is a Geographic Interface System and it's purpose is to capture, store, analyze and present data linked...

I recently had an issue come up in a transaction that left my buyers a bit confused, and could potentially be a problem for Buyers in the future, so I thought that I'd address this: Closing costs.These days, many buyers are asking sellers to pay for their closing costs or a portion of the closing...