Kevin
Nakano, a Realtor and real estate broker since 2003, has served clients'
real estate needs in the California counties of Sacramento,
Placer, San Joaquin, Yolo and Solano (Sacramento, Roseville, Folsom, Natomas,
Elk Grove, West Sacramento, Woodland, Lodi, Davis, Fairfield
areas). He has experience with listings, purchases, foreclosures
/ REO's, estate and short sale transactions. He has
the CDPE designation, Certified Distressed Property
(Short Sale) Expert. For more
information, click here.
Home
Search - If you'd like to manually search for
homes currently listed for sale in the Sacramento,
Placer, Yolo, El Dorado, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Merced
counties, click
here.
Automatic
Home Search - You may set up an automatic search for
newly listed homes, bank owned homes, short sale homes,
etc. If you'd like to receive new
listings in a particular neighborhood every morning via
e-mail, click
here.
Short
Sale Listing Prequalification - Kevin can help you evaluate if your
situation is ideal for a short sale. If you'd like to
discuss your scenario with Kevin, please complete this online
form, click
here. All information you provide will be kept
confidential.
Value
of Your Home / List Your Property - If you'd like to know how much your
home could sell for and why, Kevin will put together a free
analysis for you and explain in depth how value is
derived. Please complete this online form to request a
free home value analysis, click
here.
Short
Sale Information - If you'd like to learn more about
short sale transactions, pros and cons, short sale versus
foreclosure, etc., click
here.
Real
Estate Tips - Kevin provides real estate tips in an
online blog for buyers, sellers and homeowners, click
here.
Real
Estate Market Updates - Kevin sends out a
bi-monthly real estate market e-newsletters that contain real
estate market updates, homeowner tips and free resources,
etc. If you'd
like to sign up for Kevin's e-newsletter, click
here.
For more real estate market
statistics and trends for Sacramento and other northern
California counties, click
here.
President
signs federal tax credit extension
The
tax credit will be extended through April 30, 2010, with a
60-day extension if a binding contract is in place prior to the
deadline. First-time home buyers will continue to receive a tax
credit of up to $8,000, while existing homeowners will receive a
reduced credit of up to $6,500. Existing homeowners will be
eligible for the $6,500 if they have lived in their current
residences for at least five years. The bill also will increase
the qualifying income limits from $75,000 for single tax filers
and $150,000 for joint filers, to $125,000 and $225,000,
respectively. The purchase price of the home is capped at
$800,000. Please contact your income tax preparer for more
information. Source: California Association of Realtors.
Energy
Efficient Appliance Rebate Program and ENERGY STAR® Recovery
Funding
California
has been allocated $35.2 million in federal American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to participate in the State
Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program (SEEARP). The
California Energy Commission will administer the SEEARP that
will provide rebates to consumers for purchasing ENERGY STAR®-qualified
home appliances during the rebate period. For more
information, click
here.
"Nearly
90% of buyers look for homes on the web..." (source National
Association of Realtors). As a result, your listing agent
should maximize exposure for your listing on the internet.
In addition to listing your property on the local multiple listing
service and Realtor.com, we also submit our listings to many other
real estate websites, some are listed below:
"You
were available both through phone and email and your call backs
and replies were always prompt, always within a day.Your knowledge was great, from purchasing short sale
homes to brand new homes from builders.Your advice was always helpful and you kept my the best
interest in mind. I would feel
comfortable referring you to friends and family and I plan to do
so."
-
Kevin Jin
Rancho Cordova
"You
were consistent and timely in providing excellent advice in our
purchase...from initial search through bargaining to setting a
reasonable and fair price to the closing of the sale...You were
always there to protect our interests. We
would never hesitate to recommend you to anyone buying or
selling a property."
- Bob & Judy Tamblyn
Sacramento, CA
"His
(Kevin's) information helped us adapt our strategies to the current market
trends
so that we could get an accepted offer relatively fast.Kevin was accessible and responsive through out the
process, and he helped answer questions that we didn't have the
frame of reference to know to ask as first-time homebuyers...We could keep going on and on about how happy we were
with Kevin's real estate services, he really went above and
beyond the call of duty in so many ways."
