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Welcome to the United National Appraisal Homepage. United National Appraisal is the foremost residential appraisal provider in Southern California. We are a leading provider of real estate valuations for the lending marketplace. With over 20 years of experience in the real estate & appraisal business, we believe that through consistent quality customer service, we can help reduce your time, efforts, and costs during the appraisal process. Our office in Irvine is centrally located to service 5 Southern Counties including Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino Counties.
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| U.S. new-home sales climbed 4.5% in March, and prices sank | ||
| 4/23/2019 9:30 AM | ||
| Sales of new U.S. homes increased 4.5% in March, the third straight monthly gain as the housing market appears to be cautiously recovering from a mortgage-rate spike last year that caused homebuying to slump. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that new homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual......Read More | ||
| Facing retirement with parent student loans? Transfer them to the kids | ||
| 4/21/2019 5:00 AM | ||
| Dear Liz: I’m 60. Should I take a $50,000 distribution from my 401(k) to pay down my $146,000 parent Plus college loan and then try to refinance the balance with a private lender at a lower interest rate? I have $364,000 in my 401(k). I’m paying 8% interest on the parent Plus loan and planning......Read More | ||
| U.S. housing starts drop to lowest level in two years amid affordability concerns | ||
| 4/19/2019 12:45 PM | ||
| U.S. new-home construction unexpectedly fell in March, decelerating to the slowest pace since May 2017 and suggesting builders remain wary even as lower mortgage rates and steady wage gains offer support to consumers. Residential starts fell 0.3% to a 1.139-million annualized rate after a downwardly......Read More | ||
| Actress-scout Ronnie Mellen asks a whopping $25 million for 1,500-square-foot home in BHPO | ||
| 4/15/2019 2:35 PM | ||
| If you think home prices are too steep in your neighborhood, divert your eyes from the Beverly Hills Post Office area. Actress turned location scout Ronnie Mellen is asking $25 million for her 1,497-square-foot home. That’s a cool $16,700 per square foot. For reference, the iconic Read More | ||
| Is the starter home a thing of the past? In L.A., it all depends on location | ||
| 4/12/2019 7:00 AM | ||
| The starter home has long served as the steppingstone into homeownership. But lately it’s become difficult to tell first-timers from repeat home buyers, according to Zillow. Both groups have similar preferences when it comes to square footage (2,000) ...Read More | ||
| Warner Music turns former Ford assembly plant into Arts District music factory | ||
| 4/7/2019 7:00 AM | ||
| Employees of Warner Music Group Inc. for the last several weeks have been toiling in the same red brick building where men who could have been their great-grandfathers put together shiny black automobiles. Their new workstations line the route of an assembly line built more than a century ago to......Read More | ||
| He started in a hotel laundry room and now runs a luxury resort chain | ||
| 3/31/2019 5:00 AM | ||
| Radha Arora, 60, is president of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, a 10,000-employee luxury hotel chain with 26 properties in 15 countries. A Rosewood venture recently opened in Montecito: a seaside resort built by real estate magnate Rick Caruso, called Read More | ||
| Southern California home sales slowdown deepened in February; agents see busier times ahead | ||
| 3/27/2019 2:05 PM | ||
| Southern California home prices barely rose in February from a year earlier, as buyers continue to struggle with the high cost of housing, according to a report out Wednesday. The six-county region’s median price — the point where half the homes sold for more and half for less — increased just......Read More | ||
| Hot Property: Dennis Quaid breaks tie to Pacific Palisades home | ||
| 3/23/2019 8:00 AM | ||
| It’s a wrap in the Pacific Palisades, where Dennis Quaid has sold his home for $5.9 million. That’s down about $600,000 from what the actor originally sought last summer. Built in 1929, the home has stayed in touch with its architectural roots, offering leaded glass windows, an ivy-draped façade......Read More | ||
| U.S. sales of existing homes jumped 11.8% in February | ||
| 3/22/2019 10:35 AM | ||
| Sales of existing homes in the U.S. soared 11.8% in February, aided by accelerating wages and falling mortgage rates that are improving affordability. The National Assn. of Realtors said Friday that existing homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.51 million last month, a decisively......Read More | ||