Starting to see movment in the market for land parcels in north San Diego County.

If you have a lot or land you may be interested in selling, contact me today!! Buyers are looking for the deals!!

Don Clark 858 997-3859

The January 2012 HomeDex™ Report provides December 2011 housing statistics.

• The median price for all North County home sales - attached and detached - rose to $357,250 in December 2011 compared to $350,000 in November 2011.
• Detached homes in North County increased 3.48 percent to $413,938 in December 2011 from $400,000 in November countering last month's fall.
• The countywide median SFD price increased slightly by 1.41 percent to $354,950 in December 2011 from $350,000 in November 2011, countering eight months of price decreases.
• The number of North San Diego SFD listings (active and contingent) decreased 8.4 percent in December 2011 compared to November 2011.
• The number of sold North San Diego County SFD units jumped 19.82 percent in December 2011 compared to November 2011, and increased 11 percent year-over compared to December 2010.
• Median days-on-market for single-family detached homes sold in North County declined to 64 days in December 2011 compared to 65 days in November 2011.
• The HomeDex affordability percentage for all homes in North San Diego County - attached and detached - decreased to 41 percent in December 2011 compared to 44 percent in November 2011.

Good News For our Local Home Market. Call me today for the complete report!   Don Clark 858 997 3859

Masterpiece Realty Associates Opens San Marcos Office

Masterpiece Realty Associates has opened a new office at 1660 Linda Vista Dr. in San Marcos. The office is headed up by Don Clark a Broker Associate with Masterpiece with extencive experiance through San Diego County. masterpiece Realty is owned by Peter Lewi wo is both a broker and a real estate attorney.

The company is headquartered in Del Mar and has over 50 agents serving San Diego County. The new office is adjecent to the San Marcos car wash which has 200 people per day presenting a unique oppertunity to meet new clients as well as promoting listed properties.

We area looking for some good agents to serve San Marcos and surrounding area including Vista, Oceanside and Escondido. We offer competitive splits and many other bennifits including affordable E&O insurance and hands on legal support.

Contact Don Clark 858-997-3859 or Peter Lewi 858-525-3256 for a confidential interview.

The Gaylord Hansen Team a division of Met Life Home Loans located in San Diego have teamed up with Masterpiece Realty Associates in their new new high volume office in San Marcos, Ca. 92078 to provide the local residents with exellent  mortgage and loan origionation services.

Bill Gaylord and Sam Hansen lead their team. www.GaylordHansen.com

Don Clark and Peter Lewi welcome Bill and Sam with Met Life to there office in San Marcos at 1660 Linda Vista Drive in San Marcos.  For more information call Don Clark at 858 997 3859

Masterpiece Realty Associates New Location!

Don Clark associate broker and Peter Lewi broker owner & real estate lawyer have teamed up and opened a great new office location in beautiful San Marcos, Ca. 92078. The new office location is located at 1660 Linda Vista Drive on the high traffic corner of Rancho Santa Fe Rd. and Linda Vista Ave.

Thinking outside the box Don and Peter have come up with a great idea to reach the many residents of the southeast Carlsbad, San Marcos and Vista Ca. areas. The location of there office is attached to the busiest car wash in the area, San Marcos Car Wash. With over 150 cars a day Masterpiece Realty is positioned to capture business by offering real estate information and service to all the friendly folks waiting for their cars to be washed and detailed.

Come by and say hello and visit the newest Masterpiece Realty Associates Location at 1660 Linda Vista Ave. San marcos, Ca. 92078  or call Don at  858-997-3859

This link is a good resourse for Roatan. The port Roayl offering is perfect for a new cruse ship location!

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Remember.....Everyday is a Great day in Roatan. Low taxes, clean air, friendly folks and an investment friendly enviroment!!

Port Royal 238 acres on the water

858 997 3859

I have for you today a very detailed report brought to you through me from my good friends at UBS. We have worked together for years providing information to the rancho Santa Fe and surrounding areas.

This report is more then just So. Ca. as you will see. It is detailed !

I hope you find this information helpful to better understand the market and trends.

Have a wonderful day and if your in the North East, please be careful our thoughts are with you!!

UBS So. Cal Report

Don Clark  Associate Broker

Masterpiece Realty

858 997 3859

propertymover@gmail.com

At the desalination machinery: Samuel Rivera (desalination operations supervisor), Junior Torres (desalination plant operator), Martir Serrano, municipal worker.

Utila has one, now Roatan has another. Desalination plants, while expensive, are postponing the looming water shortage crisis on the islands. Long gone are the times when fresh water was abundant.

Opened one year ago, the Coxen Hole desalination plant is estimated to be worth two million dollars in machinery and another million in generator, building and cisterns. The money for the project was paid by World Bank directly to SETA, a development organization of the Spanish government that constructs desalination plants all over Honduras.
Inaugurated on July 10, 2010, the Roatan desalination facility by the airport became operational on September 10, 2010. Today it produces 14,000 gallons of water an hour, and is capable of producing a maximum of 18,000 gallons. Samuel Rivera, ACME Environmental desalination operations supervisor of the plant, estimates that the current water production satisfies around 60%-65% of total water demand in Coxen Hole. “People are adjusting their consumption to what water is available,” says Rivera. The process produces four gallons every second and can max out at 430,000 gallons a day. The maximum demand is rarely reached except during Semana Santa and other holidays.

The entire desalination process begins with two wells, one 60 ft, the other 80 ft deep. The water is pumped through a sand filtration tank, a micro fiber sediment filter, and finally receives nano filtration through a reverse osmosis membrane. At this stage the 99.5% of the sediment in the water has been filtered out. Around 70% of all the welled water makes it to the system in a 15,000 gallon tank. The remaining 30% of reject water, containing elevated salinity and other impurities, is flushed out to a nearby creek. There, over its 900 ft run, it has a chance to reduce temperature and dilute salinity so that when it finally reaches the sea, the water is within the salinity of the seawater. “It’s clean enough. There are crab and fish living there,” says Dan Taylor, owner of ACME Environmental, a company that manages the plant. “As operators we don’t want to have any moral or legal issues associated with the plant.”

A small portion of Coxen Hole gets its water directly from the desalination plant, and that is likely the cleanest water in Coxen Hole. The majority of the water is pushed up to municipal water cisterns at Loma Linda and is mixed with well water that is sometimes of inferior quality to that of the desalinated water.

A variable speed pump reduces the wear and tear of the well pump as well as provides energy-savings of around 75%. Since the cleanliness of the piping between the plant and the homes cannot be guaranteed, chlorine is injected into the water and the PH level, an operation fully controlled from a computer interface at the plant.

“We are connected real time to manufacturers of the plant in Spain and Teguc people, so we can ask for help when we need it,” says Taylor.

Salaries, spare parts and consumables cost around $8,000 a month. Another $8,000 is spent on energy bills paid to RECO and back-up generator operations. With around 3 million gallons of water produced every month, the cost of production is around 5 cents a gallon.

“There are no water meters so everyone pays just a flat fee,” explains Mayor Julio Galindo. Galindo thinks that “unmonitored water use” is just not practical in keeping people accountable. The Roatan Municipality is considering installing several water meters to measure water usage in different Coxen Hole communities. “When they see a toilet that is leaking, they will fix it,” agrees Rivera.

“It’s really easy to say yes to a donation [of a desalination plant] but desalination is a short-term investment. The long term solution is water harvesting,” says Taylor, pointing out that Roatan’s 90 inches of rain is plenty to make the island self sufficient on rain water. “We could build 60-80 small dams to harvest water.”

Mayor Galindo is worried about the contamination of the island’s aquifers and rising water usage. “People move to places where water is scarce.” Very few water reservoirs replenishing the island’s deep aquifer exist on the island. Currently there is one water reservoir in West Bay’s Gumabalimba Park and another at the Jerry Hynd’s property near Mahogany Bay.

Other than the municipal plant there are two other private desalination plants on Roatan, both in West Bay at Keyhole Bay and at Infinity Bay. “Roatan has the capacity to be self sufficient on water. What it doesn’t have is the political will nor organizational skills to do that,” says Rivera.

ACME had finished its first Municipal contract and has now begun a second, year-long contract to run and maintain the facility. ACME is collaborating with SETA in bringing a desalination plant for French Harbour and Oak Ridge.

Fannie and Freddie are announcing the HARP program. The president has been talking about it and it was very visible on Bloomberg .  This program is a few weeksold and we have been helping clients with this refinance.  The news today is that they are reducing the 125% Loan to Value to unlimited but this has not been implemented to our level yet, but it is coming.   

Keep in mind this applies to loans only owned by Freddie or Fannie and closed before 5/31/2009. Hence the loan amounts are less than $417,000.   Clients whose loan was an owner occupied and now an investment still qualify!  It is a great opportunity for many borrowers, please make sure anyone you knows reviews this opportunity if they are underwater and still have a job!

Special Thanks to Julie

Julie Myers Bruun

Mortgage Advisor

760-443-9455 direct

856-917-1257 my secure confidential fax

http://juliemyersbruun.phhhomeloans.com

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Encinitas / La Costa

740 Garden View Ct Suite 100

Encinitas, CA 92024

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162 South Rancho Santa Fe Road

Suite A-30

Olivenhain, CA 92024

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Fannie and Freddie are announcing the HARP program. The president is also talking about it today and it was very visible on Bloomberg this am.  Please find attached the information they published today.  I this program a few weeks ago and have been helping clients with this refinance since this summer.  The news today is that they are reducing the 125% Loan to Value to unlimited but this has not be implemented to our level yet but it is coming.   

Keep in mind this applies to loans only owned by Freddie or Fannie and closed before 5/31/2009. Hence the loan amounts are less than $417,000.   Clients whose loan was an owner occupied and now an investment still qualify!  It is a great opportunity for many borrowers, please make sure anyone you knows reviews this opportunity if they are underwater and still have a job!

Don Clark Broker Associate

1237 Camino Del Mar

Rancho Santa Fe, Ca. 92014

858 997 3859

Roatan Solar Project Moves Forward