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Architectural treasures and real estate for sale in the city of Pasadena, California.

Airbnb income can be used in mortgage applications!

Airbnb, a short-term rental service, announced today it is partnering with some of the largest U.S. lenders to allow host income to be used in mortgage applications. The company partnered with Fannie Mae, Quicken Loans, Better Mortgage and Citizens Bank in its latest initiative to consider home-sharing as a tool for earning extra income when it comes to refinancing a home. […]

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Who’s Buying Homes?

The primary reason buyers purchased a home in 2017 was the desire to own a home of their own — 30% of homebuyers claimed that as their number one reason. Here’s who bought homes, nationwide last year.   8%  Unmarried couples.   7%  Single Males.  18% Single Females  65% Married Couples First time home buyers […]

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Renting out a room to travelers in Pasadena?

Millions of people are renting rooms in private homes instead of hotels.  And millions are doing the ‘hosting.’  A coming crackdown in Pasadena on short-term lodging is exposing a divide among homeowners over the kinds of restrictions they would support when renting their units. Cities around Southern California are drafting new rules to regulate the […]

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27th Annual Summer Opportunities Fair

The Summer Opportunities Fair, at Westridge School campus in Pasadena, now in its 27th year is a free event, open to the public. The Summer Opportunities Fair (SOF) is a community service event that provides a venue for parents and children to learn about summer programs. The fair presents a wide range of local, national, international […]

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Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates exceed 4% for first time since July.

Mortgage rates continued rising in the last week, eventually breaching 4% for the first time since last summer, according to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Freddie Mac’s report, which was released Thursday morning, shows that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to an average of 4.04% for the week ending Jan. 18, 2018. That continued a […]

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Rose Villa Neighborhood Walking Tour

The newly designated Rose Villa Neighborhood is Just east of the Caltech area and showcases Pasadena’s growing “middle class” between 1913 and 1921, at the end of the craftsman era in residential architecture in Pasadena.  This was a popular neighborhood for professors and others associated with the newly relocated Throop University (which became Caltech), and […]

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Free Family Festival in Pasadena – Live on Green.

Live on Green is a three-day family festival that takes place at the Pasadena Convention Center December 29 through December 31, 2017. It helps to kick off the city’s New Year’s Day events for the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game. Live on Green features five pavilions of entertainment, discovery, and fun. Coaches Challenge Family Zone  – where kids can take […]

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The Rose Parade in Pasadena.

The Rose Parade will start at 8:00 am PST. On January 1, 2018, when the world focuses its attention on our town. It’s a celebration more than a century old – a festival of flowers, music and sports unequaled anywhere else in the world. It’s America’s New Year Celebration, a greeting to the world on […]

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