Kevin's Santa Barbara Real Estate Blog

Members of the Santa Barbara School Board came together this last week to deal with the unfortunate and hard issue of the historic statewide budget ...

At the beginning of 2008, I wrote a few articles about short sales and foreclosures in our local areas here in Santa Barbara, Goleta and ...

Here is a great list of positives about an FHA mortgage that I picked up from First Capital that I felt buyers should know about... Common sense ...

One market that has not been effected by all the negative national news with regards to the credit crisis and sub-prime fallout is the ...

Searching the Santa Barbara, Montecito and Goleta area MLS is now easy and free. More and more buyers and sellers are wanting to start there ...

I was not real surprised when I saw this latest chart of real estate values here in Montecito CA., but sometimes you do have to just sit back and be ...

The American Riviera...or the California Gold Coast...   Many seductive names have been used and are used to describe the coastal area here ...

Santa Barbara - The Oceanfront The oceanfront along the Santa Barbara coastline is referred to as roughly the 20 miles that stretch from Goleta ...

Here is a quick fact in the life within the lending business that no one can refute... The larger the mortgage, the riskier the loan and therefore ...

Hope Ranch Real Estate - Santa Barbara I have summarized below a quick look of the overall statistics for the Hope Ranch CA area through ...

I have summarized below an easy to look at brief outline of the overall statistics for the Montecito CA area through the first quarter of 2008....

I have summarized below an easy to look at brief outline of the overall statistics for the Carpinteria CA area through the first quarter of ...

Over the last 4-6 months we have started to see an increase in the amount of short sales and foreclosures here in the Santa Barbara area...especially ...