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Transcribed by Temi: Good day, everybody. It is Connor MacIvor  Connor with honor I'm with Realty one group here in Santa Cleta valley. We're gonna have another buyer video where, where I'm talking about how I walk through residences. When I'm representing my clients as real estate buyers and things, I point out the things you should be looking for, and hopefully your agent knows what to look for and if not, gimme a call. So I can be that agent. All right, we're gonna talk about windows, fog and seals. Whenever I'm going through a residence, besides what I'm looking for outside, I'm looking at the H V a C. I'm looking for the air conditioning unit, the, the compressor outside. If it happens to be out there not roof mounted, I'm looking in cabinets. I'm looking under sinks, I'm smelling all my senses are alive. Also my visual sense is alive. 

When I'm showing homes and real estate, there are so many things that I look at. And from my "experience", slope can be one of the most costly items that most people don't consider. Let alone their real estate agents pointing out the potential issues with slope and residential real estate.I'm Connor with Honor, aka Connor MacIvor, and I'm a local real estate agent in the Santa Clarita Valley.I have worked hard making sure that my home buyers and home sellers are well protected. Buying a home does not have to be hard, it just has to be done carefully with a solid representative who is not scared to sacrifice the "deal" in order to save the client. Have the best day and please share my show. I'm honored to be your Realtor.

Here is something that creates issues when home buyers are looking at homes. What their agent chooses to say and not to say. If their agent is trying to get them to buy a home, even when their agent see's that the home has some disfunction, that is a problem.That is something that bothers me a lot. In fact, when I'm showing real estate to my home buyers, I find that they really appreciate when I point out things to them that are wrong with the home. That is what my job is. I want my home buyers not only to appreciate the light and bright feeling of the home, which they can plainly see - I want them to see the issues that I'm seeing with regard to the HVAC, which today's podcast is about.I'm Connor with Honor and I'm Glad to be of great service to you with all your Real Estate Needs!

Connor with Honor Santa Clarita Realtor: (00:00)Everybody it's Connor with honor. I'm here at Realty. One group in Santa Clarita, California. Of course my offices are Valencia, but pottery barn at the mall. This is your real estate update. Today's gonna be the 19th of September, 2022. That's a lot, but that's where we are getting close to Christmas. Real estate's feeling that Bush. We're also seeing that the home prices are coming down just a little bit from where they were at market peak. About two, three months ago here in 2022. We're also watching those as interest rates are creeping up a little bit more. The fed is gonna meet tomorrow, Tuesday the 20th. I'm pretty sure I'm correct on that. I've been watching different, uh, different news portals. There's been some dates, whether it's Tuesday or Thursday, the opinion is they're probably gonna increase the bank borrowing rate to, uh, an additional 1% and that's to try to offset infla

Homes and real estate in the Santa Clarita Valley and greater Los Angeles areas is moving fast, but nowhere as fast as it did Quarter 1 and 2 of this year. Due to schools becoming in session again, the market slowed as we get into the holiday season as well. When a home buyer submits a request for repairs on a home they are buying, sometimes the process breaks down due to them getting bad advice from their friends, family or even their agent.A proper request for repairs should be about items that are health and safety concerns. A cracked foundation, mold, water leaks, intrusions, roof repairs, structure problems and the like. For new carpet or new paint, those are best handled up front when the original offer is being scribed.Please enjoy the show and let me know when you are ready for me to be your Realtor.  I'm Connor with Honor and I'm glad to be at your service.

Connor with Honor real estate Santa Clarita Agent: (00:00)Good day, everybody. September 6th, 2022. I am Connor with honor Connor MC Iver Realty. One group here in Santa Creek, California. We're talking about real estate. We're talking about the updates for the real estate market, and I will give you that information in just a second. Uh, first and foremost, with the interest rate changes. If you happen to be in the process of buying anything, make sure that you stay in contact with your lender. It's gonna be incredibly valuable for you to do that. Because if in fact there has been even a very small change, a very small change in interest rate, it could affect your ability to purchase. In addition to that, before you change anything, before you pay anything off or pay anything down, please make sure that you talk to your lender and get their approval, especially if you're in the home buying process and kind of getting close to finding that right. Connor with Honor real estate Santa Clarita

Real estate and the like are moving in the Santa Clarita Valley cities.Coming Soon (7) | New Listing (65) | Price Change (98) | Back On Market (16) | Active Under Contract (37) | Pending (50) | Closed (72) | Expired (4) | Canceled (13) | Hold (13) | Withdrawn (1)This is the Santa Clarita Valley recap - enjoy the numbers. Save mine, you never know when you are going to need it. I'm Connor with Honor at Realty 1 group!

How does it happen that when you are viewing a home you are wondering about the potential issues with it and when your agent is only wanting to get it sold, but not inform you of any issues related to buying it?It happens way too often, and I have seen it.When you are ready, I'll be here for you when you are ready...Connor with Honor

There are so many things to look at when buying a home and when you have someone who you can trust by your side, things tend to go better.When it comes to buying a Santa Clarita home, the roof - that is very important. What can you as a new buyer look for? When I'm with my home buyers, I show them what I look for and how they can learn from that.What we don't need is getting into escrow and then thinking, omg, I could have saved the home inspection money if I would have just looked a little closer or had my agent ask the seller what's up with the "___________________" i saw on the roof.Enjoy the show - listen and thank you very much.

#CWHConnor with honor Realtor CWh: (00:00)Everybody Conor MC Iver. I did wanna reach out to you and give you a quick real estate update here for Monday, August 8th, 2022. This is the beginning of the week, and I'm very excited to present a lot of information regarding the market, but let's talk about inventory track back to March April, we had two hundred and twenty two hundred thirty total active units on the market for sale. And that was really pretty much indicative of the real estate market here in Santa Clarita through Valencia Stevenson ranch. So as new hall canyon country Castaic, those particular six cities here in Santa Clarita valley, very low inventory. Fast forward to now we have about three times that amount, about 530 active units on the market for sale. We also have the coming soon variety. Nine of those are coming soon. What that is is that's something that the board implemented years ago. Well, not years ago. Connor with honor Realtor CWh: (00:51)Yeah, I guess two, three years

How is the Santa Clarita real estate market? What about Los Angeles? Simi Valley? What changes have come into the real estate market as of late?There have been a few, but here is the most impactful.For various reasons, home buyers are now slowing down their approaches to buying homes. It is a direct result of "schools" coming back into session. The higher interest rates and the number of choices that exist in the real estate market.Each of these events is typical in a real estate market. Simply stated, the market is returning to a "normal" sense.When you are ready I'll be here. Today, I spoke about real estate deposits and how you can best protect yourselves when it comes to contingency removal for a home buyer. 

#CWH What is a buyer's advantage in a home seller's market? That would have to do with some of the "offered" options that a home buyer may get when asking a home seller via their agents. In some cases, upfront negotiation, when working with a true real estate professional, can equate to a home buyer getting closing costs paid or maybe some of the seller's personal items included in the sale at no additional cost. Some of the biggest issues in today's market is the removal of contingencies for the home buyer right out of the chute when wanting to make the opening offer on the Santa Clarita home for sale. I have not made peace with this action within the real estate world. I have seen where that results in the home buyer sacrificing their entire deposit which can be a home buying killer at the ninth degree. Therefore, before you give up any of your contractual rights when making an offer on a home to purchase, you need to have all explained to you and you need to understand 100%.Fa

#CWH Real Estate update for Santa Clarita Valley We have 550 active real estate listings for sale with 18 which are coming soon in nature. I pulled the data for Castaic, Canyon Country, Newhall, Stevenson Ranch, Saugus, and Valencia - this also includes the Single-family homes, condos, and townhomes - all residential properties were included in my search for the Connor with honor Santa Clarita real estate podcast and radio show. I also spoke about negotiation and the "how to" of open houses in the Santa Clarita Valley. There are many things that you sellers and home buyers need to know about real estate before entering that arena. I'm Connor with Honor and I'm glad to be of great service to you and yours!Connor with Honor, aka - Connor MacIvor. Local real estate agent in Southern California HeadQuartered in the Santa Clarita Valley. Santa Clarita Valley (SCV) is the next community north of Los Angeles.

The problem:  Who can you trust within the online channels concerning downpayment assistance programs?Connor with Honor: (03:05)You get half a point of interest increase. Maybe that qualification now is 8 58, 25. And then that also corresponds, let's say the property has solar and there's an additional $300 a month on top of that, that has to be factored in as well. Maybe there's an HOA, that's two or $300 that needs to be factored in as well. And if there's MEUs tax or some kind of special assessment, bringing the property higher, as far as the tax rate goes higher than the typical 1.2, 5%. And that's a span folk just to let you know if you're looking at real estate 1.2, 5%. That's the general understanding of the property tax rate here in Los Angeles county for some properties is gonna fluctuate, could be a little bit lower, could be a little bit higher, the best way to do it. Just do the simple math. You find out what the assessed value is. Connor with Honor: (03:57)

Some of the transcription from today's Santa Clarita Lending and Mortgage show.Aiden MacIvor - Santa Clarita Lender: (03:46)Culpable, I think ultimately, um, it's any person can just talk, you know, how up today are you with desktop underwriter? Oh, well we don't really use that system. That's a little outdated. We use our own. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like anyone can talk to a lot of it. So I think ultimately if you want to know, if you're working with someone that knows what they're doing, um, I always recommend asking a bunch of realtors, um, what their opinions are as far as the lending institution that person is associated with. Go on Google. See, you know, if there is a Yelp page, look at the reviews, you know, get it, you know, just the same way you would write any other service to it that way. Cause I think ultimately if you, um, if, if you just try to go with basically talking to the service provider, there's a chance that you might get, you know, a lot of, a lot of lies

During the past week, there have been 113 price reductions in Santa Clarita real estate. I ran all the cities in the SCV - ValenciaStevenson RanchCastaicCanyon CountrySaugusNewhallI ran all residential properties - Condos/Townhomes/Single Family Homes and looked at the price reduction data that had been published in the multiple listing service.  It was apparent that all the singular price reductions I had been seeing for the past couple of months are still ever present. The system returned over 130 price changes - after I did the math and subtracted the status and price increase listings, there were 113 left standing as related to price reductions within the Santa Clarita Valley.I'm Connor with Honor and I'm glad to be of great service to you and yours. Please let me know when you are ready for me to take the wheel and get you to a better place in your world.

There are so many times when home sellers make mistakes. This is typically some of their doing, and some of them the result of their chosen real estate representative. There are issues that arise for various reasons, but these 12 mistakes can be avoided by identifying what they are. I have created a PDF guide for those Sellers in the Santa Clarita valley. The home sellers need to know what to expect before embarking on their home selling journey.These 12 don'ts for home sellers will help assist you with what you need to know to keep safe and to get your bottom line met, hopefully at a higher level.I'm Connor with Honor. Your Santa Clarita Realtor. There are times that we need experts to handle our affairs. I want to be your real estate expert when you are ready to get what you deserve from a qualified real estate representative. Please be well, stay safe, and reach out to me when you are ready.I'm Connor with Honor, Over and Out!!!

Speaker 1: (00:00)Good day, everybody Conor MC Iver Connor with honor here, July 6th, 2022. This is going to be your sent to Clarita real estate update. We're gonna look at inventory currently, and we're also talk, we're going to also talk about some trends that have been happening here in the last couple months that have, uh, done a pretty good job. Just waiting sellers. Also slow the buyer drive a little bit. We do have extra inventory on the market, uh, and by x-ray means somewhat closer to normal inventory. If you look at a historical inventory amounts, typically it takes about six months. This is known as what's, uh, known as absorption rate six months to get from the current amount of listings to zero. If none were added to the market, that's a typical market right now. We're looking at half a month to a month to deplete that inventory, maybe embarking now on two months because we have the additional units. Speaker 1: (00:52)So now 474 residential properties are listed acti

If you are interested in the market performance, you will see that we have been adding to our local inventory. In fact, as we add more homes to the saleable inventory - we see that the buyers are still present, but not in the numbers that we had seen even back in March/April. Today, we do have multiple offers on some homes that are for sale, but not in the way of offers numbering in the teens and twenties. Keep an eye out on Santa Clarita real estate via Connor with Honor and his podcast. I'm glad to be of great service to you and yours.

I have been selling homes since 1998 and I will tell you that the real estate market hasn't been funkier. This means, that there are so many micro changes that are affecting the market as a whole.While we are not getting into the dangers of overbuilding, we are seeing interest rates rise, inventory starting to build, and the buyer drives starting to slow down as a result.This differs from the previous market where we had so many offers on real estate listings in very short order.The homes in the Santa Clarita Valley received offers before the listing hit the market for sale in most cases. Then after the showings, we were hit with additional offers that were totally pitted against each other to get the seller the highest price possible.With the turning of the tide, we may start to see longer days on the market timeframes coupled with price reductions due to the buyer impacted interest rate hikes.I'm Connor with Honor and I'm glad to be of service to you and yours regarding selling your Santa Cla