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Buying Your First Home?
It is a timely process and requires careful planning to make the process a successful one. Chances are if you are a homeowner, you remember when you bought your first piece of real estate. It is an exciting and memorable experience.

Adopting New Construction
Another decision to make is related to the purchase of an existing home or to go for constructing a new one. For the second option, the real estate agent must be able to have a full grasp on estate knowledge to help you.

Best Home-Selling Time
If you’re thinking to move out, you need to see for the best time you sell your home. The decision to decide on the best home-selling time is the critical one and one should ensure and keep in mind all the economic and environmental obstacles.
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What Not to Fix Before Selling Your Home
Preparing to sell a home doesn’t always mean spending thousands on major renovations. In fact, experts say many costly upgrades rarely return their value at closing. Instead of gutting your kitchen or bathroom, small cosmetic fixes, deep cleaning, and fresh paint can do more to attract buyers without draining your budget or delaying your sale.
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High Mortgage Rates in 2025: Buy Now or Wait?
Mortgage rates in the U.S. remain persistently high, with 30-year fixed loans hovering around 6.7% as of July 2025. While home prices continue to rise modestly and sales volumes dip, buyers and sellers alike face new challenges. Should you buy now, or wait for potential relief? This article explores strategies and expectations in today’s market.
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Barbara Simmons
Equity Center Real Estate
2945 Townsgate Rd Suite 200 Westlake Village, CA 91361
Email: barbara@aboutrealestate.com
Phone: (805) 390-7917
Barbara Simmons is a highly principled and successful real estate broker. Barbara created and owns Equity Center Real Estate, an independent firm located in Westlake Village, CA.
• Under her superior enterprise leadership and team-building ability her company registered 800,000,000 (eight hundred million) in sales volume since 1990 when the company was formed.
• Equity Center Real Estate operates in 14 counties predominately along the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego, Barbara’s significate expertise is her ability to execute sales of foreclosed properties known as REOs.
• In addition to Barbara’s daily practice of residential property sales she represents a public company, a large mortgage servicer as their Real Estate Broker in the State of California. In this role, she administers REO transactions with agents throughout the State of California.
• Under her superior enterprise leadership and team-building ability her company registered 800,000,000 (eight hundred million) in sales volume since 1990 when the company was formed.
• Equity Center Real Estate operates in 14 counties predominately along the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego, Barbara’s significate expertise is her ability to execute sales of foreclosed properties known as REOs.
• In addition to Barbara’s daily practice of residential property sales she represents a public company, a large mortgage servicer as their Real Estate Broker in the State of California. In this role, she administers REO transactions with agents throughout the State of California.

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