What Should Buyers and Sellers be Thinking Now?
Is the pandemic over? We wish we had a crystal ball! The CREM Group has experience in and an understanding of real estate in Southern California’s Los Angeles and Orange counties. While our distinct talent is that we are attorneys with specialized knowledge of probate, trust, and conservatorship sales, we don’t know the future.
Our clients look to us for answers, so we will give you our best opinion of what to think about as a buyer or seller of real estate in a hopefully post-pandemic market. We are not sure when the “post” part of post-pandemic will arrive. However, we can give you some ideas on buying or selling homes in the semi-near timeframe.
What Should Buyers and Sellers Be Thinking Now?
Our clients look to us for answers, so we will give you our best opinion of what to think about as a buyer or seller of real estate in a hopefully post-pandemic market. We are not sure when the “post” part of post-pandemic will arrive. However, we can give you some ideas on buying or selling homes in the semi-near timeframe.
What Should Buyers and Sellers Be Thinking Now?
Buying a Home in the Post-Pandemic Market
NEED TO KNOW
Take some time to research. Read widely. Here are a few resources as of this writing, and they are updated frequently. Forbes, Washington Post, California Economic Forecast. These are BIG PICTURE predictions, and many people are making educated guesses. Be discerning. What do these experts expect to happen versus what do they hope will happen?
Take some time to research. Read widely. Here are a few resources as of this writing, and they are updated frequently. Forbes, Washington Post, California Economic Forecast. These are BIG PICTURE predictions, and many people are making educated guesses. Be discerning. What do these experts expect to happen versus what do they hope will happen?
NEED TO HAVE
You need to have a good relationship with the real estate agent in the area where you’re going to buy. What is happening there? Employment? Bankruptcies? Schools going live or virtual? Ask questions. If you are looking for a reasonable price on a home in the area, sometimes probate homes or conservatorships and trust homes can offer better prices.
You need to have a good relationship with the real estate agent in the area where you’re going to buy. What is happening there? Employment? Bankruptcies? Schools going live or virtual? Ask questions. If you are looking for a reasonable price on a home in the area, sometimes probate homes or conservatorships and trust homes can offer better prices.
NEED TO BE
You might need to be thinking about buying a second home outside of the city. There are properties in Orange County that might fill that bill. Or you may choose to plain move out of the big city into the country. Or buy a smaller home or a condominium to cut costs. Alternately, you may decide a bigger house would be better if you’re going to be working from home with one, two, or three other remote workers. If for any reason you must sell your current home. Read on:
You might need to be thinking about buying a second home outside of the city. There are properties in Orange County that might fill that bill. Or you may choose to plain move out of the big city into the country. Or buy a smaller home or a condominium to cut costs. Alternately, you may decide a bigger house would be better if you’re going to be working from home with one, two, or three other remote workers. If for any reason you must sell your current home. Read on:
SELLING a Home in the Post Pandemic Market
NEED TO KNOW
Can you afford to sell your home at a “depressed” price? Would you be better off waiting to sell? Can you afford the payments? Can you re-finance? Check with an accountant. Call in a financial advisor. Ask your real estate agent if they can recommend a suitable lender or two. (We can.) Especially call us if you cannot make your mortgage payments, and you think you have to sell. Let’s talk about it. Interest rates have declined. Lots.
Can you afford to sell your home at a “depressed” price? Would you be better off waiting to sell? Can you afford the payments? Can you re-finance? Check with an accountant. Call in a financial advisor. Ask your real estate agent if they can recommend a suitable lender or two. (We can.) Especially call us if you cannot make your mortgage payments, and you think you have to sell. Let’s talk about it. Interest rates have declined. Lots.
NEED TO HAVE
You still need to have a very close relationship with a professional real estate agent (yes, like the CREM Group) in your area. It would help if you had someone who has done their homework on the economy, the schools, job prospects, and the comparable home prices to help you value your home and “stage” it correctly.
You still need to have a very close relationship with a professional real estate agent (yes, like the CREM Group) in your area. It would help if you had someone who has done their homework on the economy, the schools, job prospects, and the comparable home prices to help you value your home and “stage” it correctly.
NEED TO BE
You need to be willing to decide. Know the risks. Know yourself. Selling your home is a massive decision in any market. Picture yourself out in the country. Can you do it? OR are you a city person through-and-through?
You need to be willing to decide. Know the risks. Know yourself. Selling your home is a massive decision in any market. Picture yourself out in the country. Can you do it? OR are you a city person through-and-through?
THE FUTURE
Until a vaccine for Covid-19 is found, there will be changes in almost every single industry you can imagine. Retail will change (it already has). Entertainment and jobs associated with it are uncertain. Downtowns will look different. Restaurants. Services. The near future is definitely unknown. The predictions for six, twelve, and twenty-four months are hazy, except to say life won’t look the same.
Until a vaccine for Covid-19 is found, there will be changes in almost every single industry you can imagine. Retail will change (it already has). Entertainment and jobs associated with it are uncertain. Downtowns will look different. Restaurants. Services. The near future is definitely unknown. The predictions for six, twelve, and twenty-four months are hazy, except to say life won’t look the same.
Here’s the good news. People have to live somewhere. The market for homes, for probate and trust homes, and for condos, apartments, and high rises might be different than it is now. But people will be buying and selling homes. Real estate agents with imagination and a good understanding of their current markets will be even more essential than they were in the past. They will sniff out the trends and help buyers buy, and sellers sell in the new-normal, post-pandemic market.
FIND EXPERIENCED FOLKS
When the path forward gets muddy with lost jobs, scary diseases, and social unrest, it isn’t easy to think about buying or selling a home. Sometimes you must. Uncertain times call for defending yourself with knowledge at the 30,000-foot level by reading and listening to sources with different agendas or viewpoints. It also involves putting faith and trust in the people on the ground—the experts who can tell you what’s important to you in the neighborhood where you are buying or selling. It’s best to have experienced real estate agents as well as other lenders, attorneys, and accounting professionals specializing in real estate.
When the path forward gets muddy with lost jobs, scary diseases, and social unrest, it isn’t easy to think about buying or selling a home. Sometimes you must. Uncertain times call for defending yourself with knowledge at the 30,000-foot level by reading and listening to sources with different agendas or viewpoints. It also involves putting faith and trust in the people on the ground—the experts who can tell you what’s important to you in the neighborhood where you are buying or selling. It’s best to have experienced real estate agents as well as other lenders, attorneys, and accounting professionals specializing in real estate.
As long time real estate agents for all kinds of properties in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, we have made sure we support our clients so they know the legal aspects of selling their probate, trust, and conservatorship homes in California.
As always, contact us by email here if you have any questions about real estate, probate real estate, conservatorship, or trust real estate properties, especially in Los Angeles and Orange Counties in California.
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DISCLAIMER: This content is meant purely for educational purposes. It contains only general information about real estate and legal matters. It is NOT legal advice and should not be treated as such. We recommend consulting a legal or tax professional before acting on any material, opinion, or point of view described herein.
COVID-19 Safety. As all of us at the CREM Group market and sell our inventory of probate, trust, and conservatorship homes for our clients, we adhere to the COVID-19 regulations set by the California Association of Realtors.