As the 3rd largest state in the U.S., California is 158,706 square miles and has 480 cities. If you travel from top to bottom, that's about 800 miles of road that will take you through deserts, forests, flatlands and mountain ranges.
With a population over 38 million, California's economy is larger than that of many countries, and it’s considered the nation’s leading industrial state. A wide range of employment opportunities exist within the agriculture, technology, tourism, and motion picture industries throughout the state.
When choosing a place to live, the quality and availability of schools may also be high on your list of considerations. California will likely score high on your list, since their open enrollment policy allows you to send your child to any school within your home district, provided there's enough space.
Our free real estate services feature real estate listings from the California MLS in all local counties and cities.
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Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Brookline
Cities Served
Brookline, MA
Somerville, MA
Needham, MA
Cambridge, MA
Boston, MA
Newton, MA
Rebate Realty Usa
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Lutherville, MD
Highlandtown, MD
Elkridge, MD
Baltimore, MD
Catonsville, MD
Severn, MD
Columbia, MD
Baltimore, MD
Nottingham, MD
Owings Mills, MD
Ellicott City, MD
Keller Williams At the Parks
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Orlando, FL
Lake Mary, FL
Winter Springs, FL
Casselberry, FL
Winter Park, FL
Oviedo, FL
RE/MAX Dallas Suburbs
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Plano, TX
Mckinney, TX
Prosper, TX
Allen, TX
Carrollton, TX
Frisco, TX
Real Estate Gods Way Llc
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Longwood, FL
Orlando, FL
Casselberry, FL
Orlando, FL
Doctor Phillips, FL
Altamonte Springs, FL
Fathom Realty
Cities Served
Plano, TX
Carrollton, TX
Richardson, TX
Frisco, TX
Allen, TX
Mckinney, TX
RE/MAX America's Top Realty
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Pensacola, FL
Pace, FL
Milton, FL
Cantonment, FL
Gulf Breeze, FL
Pensacola Beach, FL
RE/MAX BAY TO BAY
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Tampa, FL
Clearwater, FL
Palm Harbor, FL
Odessa, FL
Carrollwood, FL
Lutz, FL
Executive Realty Group Llc
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Bartlett, IL
Medinah, IL
Roselle, IL
Glendale Heights, IL
Carol Stream, IL
Bloomingdale, IL
Sabella Team Elite
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Oakland, CA
Emeryville, CA
Pittsburg, CA
Concord, CA
Antioch, CA
Brentwood, CA
ReNita Carson & Christina Mitchell
All Metro Team at Optimus Real Estate Brokers
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Canton, GA
Woodstock, GA
Jasper, GA
Kennesaw, GA
Roswell, GA
Marietta, GA
Better Homes & Gardens Metro Brokers
Cities Served
Marietta, GA
Roswell, GA
Powder Springs, GA
Kennesaw, GA
Canton, GA
Woodstock, GA
The Barnett Group, Inc.
Cities Served
Winter Springs, FL
Port Orange, FL
New Smyrna Beach, FL
Edgewater, FL
Oviedo, FL
Casselberry, FL
Cecilia Halim
CalBre #01481383
Keller Williams Danville
Cities Served
Danville, CA
San Leandro, CA
Hayward, CA
Castro Valley, CA
Dublin, CA
San Ramon, CA
Davey Properties
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San Diego, CA
Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Del Mar, CA
San Marcos, CA
Encinitas, CA
Carlsbad, CA
First Weber Realtors
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Pardeeville, WI
Poynette, WI
Rio, WI
Columbus, WI
Fall River, WI
Portage, WI
Wyocena, WI
Cambria, WI
ProTeam Realty Inc.
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San Ramon, CA
Concord, CA
Martinez, CA
Walnut Creek, CA
Pleasant Hill, CA
Danville, CA
Lafayette, CA
Coldwell Banker
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Cary, NC
Chapel Hill, NC
Raleigh, NC
Holly Springs, NC
Morrisville, NC
Apex, NC
Popular Real Estate Terms
An Option Listing agreement is one of the many specificities of a Listing Agreement. Here’s what happens when the house seller signs an Option Listing: he gives someone (a home buyer, a real estate agent or a broker) the option to purchase the property within a certain peri ...
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Sometimes a landlord agrees to implement within the rent contract the possibility of the tenant buying the house at a certain price, by a certain date. It’s what’s called in the real estate world as a Rent with Option to Buy or a Rent to Own.A rent with option to buy ...
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The concept behind a Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI) is pretty simple: it exists to make sure the lender doesn’t lose its money. What it does is “buy” the possible defaults of a borrower to a lender. Meaning: if the borrower doesn’t pay the premium, the ...
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Popular Real Estate Questions
If you’re looking into how to get a job in real estate and arrived at this page: congratulations; you’ve just made a big step toward your first real estate job! Not only because this article on how to get a job in real estate is, in itself, very informative; but beca ...
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There comes a time when every zealous homeowner asks himself – usually at a very inconvenient hour, like 3 am: Do I need Flood Insurance? The answer is: probably. Here’s why: Most homeowners insurance policy, renter, landlord, and business insurance policies exclude ...
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Yes and no.The yes part of the answer is pretty standard; we’ve been covering it in the many many articles we put out on our real estate advice and tips page exposing the complexity of acting as a real estate agent in a housing transaction. There’s a reason why w ...
Real Estate Advice and Tips
Homebuyer Tips
Senior Citizen Housing: Accompanied Or By Yourself?
For some people, this issue is a bit taboo but, hopefully, it will happen with all of us: we’ll get to live so long that certain cares around the house will need to be taken in order to facilitate our life pace. And even if you’re a Millennial thinking “oh, I’m 50 years away from that, my friend”, you always have family and friends of ...
Agent Advice
Tips To Raise Your Real Estate Commission
If one is to answer how much does a real estate agent really make, it will become very clear that the place where you make a difference on your earnings as a real estate agent is the real estate commission. The highest the house gets sold for, the highest the real estate commission. So, technically, to raise your real estate commission = to raise the price of the ...
Agent Advice
Why Real Estate Agents Fail And Get Out Of Business
You know how they say you should always enter places, situations and even relationships with a backup plan and an exit strategy? Romantics say that’s not the right way to go about things, but it’s actually a way to take some tension out of the way, minimizing the fear of failing to let you focus on making everything work. If you have the worst case scenario ...
Homebuyer Tips
Living Near An Airport: The Good And The Bad
If you’ve been following the content production of RealEstateAgent.com you’ve probably noticed how we love to write about strange unusual real estate scenarios. We’ve already written about living near a highway, considered if living near a cemetery affects the home value and even questioned if you would live in a haunted house if the price was ...
Homebuyer Tips
Essential Home Items Your Place Might Be Missing
The mind is always playing tricks on us. Sometimes there are some things that are very obvious, and we come across them all of the time – they are a big part of our lives – and yet; we can’t remember them! Have you ever played Scrabble and couldn’t for the life of you think of a word, then your friend just adds an “r” or an ...
Agent Advice
Working Couples In Real Estate
Beyonce and Jay-Z, Melinda and Bill Gates, Sonny and Cher, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Hart to Hart, even Ant-Man and the Wasp… there a lot of stories – some successful, some not so much - of husbands and wives working together out there. And in our industry, of course, is no different. If you take a look at some of the real estate agents in The ...
Home Seller Tips
Things Home Sellers Should NOT Do
We’ve made several articles in the past regarding things that home sellers should do to sell their house. We gave home staging tips and tricks, advice on how to optimize your next open house and even went oriental with Feng Shui to sell your home. But we never talked about the things home sellers should NOT do when selling a home. And you know, that’s ...
Homebuyer Tips
Whenever we do a “best ____ for _____” type of article, we always discuss the metrics pertaining to that subject and come up with a ranking of sorts. But today, because the discussion within the subject has so many variables, we’ve decided to do it differently. To tell us about the best places to raise a family, we’ve imagined a typical ...
Agent Advice
There’s an argument to be made that cold calls are not the most current way of getting that sweet lead generation going for you and that SMS, social media, and cold email marketing have a much higher percentage of lead generation success than cold calls, but hey… sometimes you have to try them all, right? Maybe your real estate market is more technology ...
Home Seller Tips
5 Signs You Should Sell Your House
From time to time, homeowners wonder if it’s the right time to sell their house. They look to the sky and say “God, if this is the right time to sell my house… just give me a sign!” Well, we’re not God, but here are FIVE signs you should sell your house: All the neighbors are selling their homes It’s all about supply and ...