Orange County Real Estate Blog

Inheriting a House With Siblings in Orange County: Keep, Buy Out or Sell

What happens when siblings inherit a house together in Orange County and cannot agree on what to do with it? There are 4 realistic outcomes: everyone agrees to sell and split the proceeds, 1 sibling buys out the others, the siblings keep it together under a written co-ownership agreement, or someone

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Selling Your Newport Beach Home After Divorce: The Tax Side

Do both spouses pay tax when they sell a Newport Beach home after divorce? Each spouse can usually exclude up to $250,000 of gain on the sale of a principal residence, or up to $500,000 together if they are still married and file jointly for the year of the sale. On a longtime Newport Beach home, th

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Treasury Yields Just Hit a 20-Year High. Here's What It Means for Buying or Selling in Orange County.

Photo by Anatolii Nesterov on Unsplash Why did mortgage rates jump, and what does it mean for the Orange County housing market? Mortgage rates rose because the bonds that fund them — Treasury yields — just hit their highest levels in more than two decades, pushing the 30-year fixed mortgage to a one

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