Hope For Ventura Real Estate

275 Pajaro Ventura, CA 93004 Ventura Pool Home East Ventura Pool Home! Price: $350,000 Type: Single Family Residential for Sale Bedrooms: 3 Baths:2   www.hopegoss.com/listings/BAB4361B-9ACE-252A-E95B2FF60E51873F.shtml   www.hopegoss.com For more information contact: Hope Goss Ventura Real Estate Consultant Phone: (805)320-HOPE Hope@HopeGoss.com www.hopegoss.com Copyright © 2008 Hope Goss. All rights reserved.

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Time to clean out all that electronic junk in the garage that's been keeping you from parking in there!  The Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura will collect electronic waste items such as stereos, TV sets, computers, monitors, laptops, servers, printers, copiers, cellular phones, digital cameras, VCRs, modems, gaming systems and other consumer or office electronics. They ask that you do not bring home and kitchen appliances such as microwaves and blenders.

When:  Saturday November 15, 9 a.m. to noon
Where:  Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura parking lot  5654 Ralston St. Ventura, CA
For more information call (805) 644-3989

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It's probably the million dollar question to anyone in the real estate industry, as well as anyone with designs on buying a new home for their family.  We've seen sizable increases in the number of sales happening, as well as some price stabilation in areas of Ventura County.  Will this good news for housing continue with the economy losing hundreds of thousands of jobs, the stockmarket in freefall, and all this talk of a deep recession?

Cheif economist, Lawrence Yun, with the National Association of Realtors was asked to comment on the housing market and he had this to say:

"We are in a recession," Yun said. "In the next six months, we may lose up to 1 million jobs. But the good news is, historically housing moves independently from the economy. We are seeing a 20 percent improvement in home sales in states like California, Florida, and Virginia. The economy will not improve without a housing recovery."

Mr. Yun is surely smarter than I am when it comes to economics, but it was my experience that the housing market hasn't followed the economy in the recent past.  I guess only time will tell, but there does seem to be some significant moves in the right direction happening in housing right now.

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