Gail's Chino Hills Real Estate Blog

Cortez, Country Springs and Eagle Canyon elementary schools in the Chino Valley Unified School District have been awarded the California Distinguished School Awards for their academic excellence! This is the first award for Cortez which also received a Title 1 Academic Achievement Award recogniz...

Chino Hills ranks number 13 for the second year in a row on the FBI's list of safest cities. At number 13, Chino Hills is 70.03% below the national crime average in the United States.The FBI report ranks 393 cities in the United States in six different crime areas which are murder, rape, robbery,...

Loan Modification Fraud A client of mine just received a letter marked Confidential in the mail from a Law Group. The letter has no company letterhead or logo and the company name was in small print at the bottom of the letter. The letter indicated his first mortgage originally funded by "his ban...

The Chino Valley School District is one of the best in the Inland Empire and a big draw for home buyers in Chino and Chino Hills. Sending your child to a top rated school is just plain good parenting! The API score is the Academic Performance Index based on state tests taken every Spring. The num...

Check out the Ecomonic and Housing Market Outlook as of June 26, 2008. This report is very informative!  This report includes: Economic outlook for US and California Current market conditions for California and regional areas Mortgage rates and woes Housing market outlook for 2008 Recap of all re...

Per DataQuick, foreclosures in California were at the highest level in the first quarter of 2008 in more than 15 years. The lending industry's irresponsible practices during the real estate boom in 2005 and 2006 are the main reason for foreclosures and declining home values. "The main factor behi...

CQ Press, a reference and texbook publishing company has listed Chino Hills as the 16th safest city in the United States on the list of cities with a population of 75,000 or more. CQ Press is a division of Congressional Quarterly, Inc. and located in Washington DC. Statistics were acquired from 2...

Have Home Prices Bottomed Out Yet? Have home prices bottomed out? This is a question I receive all the time from my clients. I have not been able to say for sure, but it now looks like it may be coming close. The link below is from a Yahoo message board regarding a market review from John Dessaue...

Click below for the summary of sales Report in Chino Hills for the first quarter of 2008. Chino Hills Homes Sales for Quarter 1, 2008 Per Dataquick, 40 resale homes, new homes and condos sold in Chino Hills in the month of March, 2008 with a median price of $497,000 compared to March of 2007's me...

Country Springs Elementary School has earned a place on the 2007 list of Blue Ribbon Schools on the US Department of Education's No Child Left Behind program and the only school to be chosen in all of San Bernardino County! The principal of the school, Michael Harrell attributes the high performa...