Fresno, CA

Lake Van Ness Offers Private Lake Community Fresno, CA. 93711

If you want to look important, Lake Van Ness offers a private lake community in Fresno, CA. 93711 with security guards at the entrance. This community is unique to Fresno with estate sized homes completely surrounded by a security gate and all of the homes have lake access off of their private docks. This development is almost out of place in the central valley.

My last housing update in this community was back in May of 2011. That report found that the four sales in 2010 averaged about $241 per sq. ft. Since June of 2011, there have been four sales ranging from $181-263 per sq. ft. with the average being $222. There may still be more of a dip in these home prices in the future as there are fewer people in the Fresno area who can afford these homes that have been selling for $1,006,250 on average in the past nine months. The average size of the four most recent sales was 4,570 so these are large homes and all have lake frontage from their back yards so they are all comparable views, etc. There are no homes in this development without lake frontage.

Lake Van Ness offers a private lake community in Fresno, CA. 93711 and there are currently eight homes actively for sale in the MLS. These homes average 3,939 sq. ft. and they average $258 per sq. ft. which is about $36 per sq. ft. higher than the recent sales. Another interesting piece of information is that these homes have been on the market for an average of 262 days.




Lake Van Ness Offers Private Lake Community Fresno, CA. 93711

Homes for sale Clovis Unified School District Fresno, CA. 93711, 93720 & 93730

If you are interested in homes for sale in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, Ca. 93711, 93720 & 93730, you are one among many others. To home buyers, one of the most attractive features of living in north Fresno is the Clovis school district. If this describes you, then know that the competition is tough in these areas, especially as there isn't a surplus of nice listings due to the distressed housing market.

If you are looking at homes for sale in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, CA. 93711, 93720 & 93730, it would be best that you have your financing figured out before you look. What typically happens is a buyer will locate the perfect house that has recently been painted, fresh new carpets, etc., but three other couples or families thought the exact same thing about the house. Since this is often the case, it would be best if you speak with your mortgage professional before you look at homes for sale so that there is no delay in making an offer if you don't have a mortgage pre-approval letter in hand.

Another reason that people search for homes for sale in the Clovis Unified School District in Fresno, CA. 93711, 93720 & 93730 is that the Clovis schools are known for academics and even more for their sports programs. I have shown homes to people from southern California who come up to the Clovis schools every summer for wrestling camps put on by Clovis schools. They relocate just to give their child the best opportunities in athletics so that they can hopefully land a scholarship for athletics in college.

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Homes for sale Clovis Unified School District Fresno, CA. 93711, 93720 & 93730

The following is taken from an Agent’s Remarks section on a listing in the Fresno MLS.

Agent remarks are comments by the listing agent that are only seen by other agents on the MLS.

This happens to be for a multi-unit property – that now only has one tenant ( I wonder why)

This is a VERBATIM CUT AND PASTE:

“A sophisticated investor will be able to see past the cosmetic damage and get to the value. Most of the units are not secured, so just go over there and snoop around. The only tennant is very nice and will likely give you a little tour. Homeless sometime camp out in the unsecured units, so enter cautiously. There was a murder in one of the units, but the murderer has not been seen around for awhile, so you may (or may not) be safe.”

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Notes:

Tthe above picture was not taken from the MLS. It was taken by me with my iphone.

The listing agent -a former politician - has the estimated income @ $1000.00 per unit for these mostly 1 bdrm units in an obviously rough part of town.

He could probably look you straight in the face and tell you those rent prices are doable --- I mean he has already said as much in the listing --- but as I mentioned, he's a former politician and iin my opinion anyone who can post those rental estimates is a BOLD FACED LIAR.

Market Update Lakefront Homes Woodward Lake Fresno, CA. 93730 & 93720

Six years ago if you would have googled "market update lakefront homes Woodward Lake in fresno, CA. 93720 & 93730," every home selling on the water over 3,000 sq. ft. would have probably been over a million dollars. Today there is only one home on the water that is listed for over a million and it s 4,197 sq. ft. It is a great time to pick up a home in WL for an investment or just to call home.



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Woodward Lake is a community built around a man made lake. All of the homes have HOA fees to help cover the costs of the club house, tennis courts, basketball courts, green areas and the lake in general. Yearly HOA fees range from $400-1,600 depending on if you have a water front home, live in a gated community or both.

If you like to Bass fish you will love this market update for lakefront homes on Woodward Lake, Fresno, CA. 93730 & 93720. I personally have caught bass in this lake. This is a private lake so you must live in Woodward Lake or know someone who does to fish there with barb less hooks and it is catch and release only. I have experienced that purple rubber worms get the bass biting in the spring and summer, especially in the shallow areas around the private docks off of every home on the water.

Currently there are 15 homes listed as "Active" in the MLS at an average price of $145 per sq. ft. There are 12 homes pending in escrow at the average price of $131 per sq. ft. Most importantly for determining values in the community, there have been 13 sales in the last 6 months that have averaged $127 per sq. ft. There is a home for just about everyone here, with recent sales ranging from $135,000-700,000.




Market Update Lakefront Homes Woodward Lake Fresno, CA. 93730 & 93720

Market Update Destinations by Granville Homes Fresno, CA. 93720

The highly desirable Destinations by Granville Homes in Fresno, CA. 93720 are creating a buzz for home buyers and so I decided to do a market update for all those interested lookers. My last blog about this community back in August of 2011 revealed that the recent sales in the community averaged $124 per sq. ft. Today when I look at the sales data within the last six months, there are only three sales or 33% of the number of sales that there were six months prior to my August 2011 post. The most current three sales have averaged almost $120 per sq. ft.

This market update for Destinations by Granville homes in Fresno, CA. 93720 seems to point to a drop in prices by $5 per sq. ft. but with only 1/3 of the amount of sales and the fact that homes sizes may have a variance of some 2,000 sq. ft. it makes it more difficult to jump to those conclusions. A new listing popped up today so there are now four homes listed as active in the MLS in this community. The prices on these homes range from $305,000-$439,000 and they range in size from 2,290-4,549 sq. ft.

Some of the reasons for this market update for Destinations by Granville homes in Fresno, CA. 93720 is that there are many commercial places within walking distance. This is great for young mothers who want to take their kids for a walk and do their banking, shoping or eating/dinning, etc. Some of the retail locations on the corner of Willow and Nees are: Starbucks, Rite Aid, CVS, McDonalds, Chase, Golden 1 Credit Union, Panda Express, Quiznos, Taco Bell, Sonic, Save Mart, Trader Joe's, Shell, 76, and those are just some of the more well known retails locations.

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Market Update Destinations by Granville Homes Fresno, CA. 93720