Chris B Johnson REALTOR® - Luxury Home and Estate Specialist

Your home is probably the biggest asset you own. This is why you should hire a professional REALTOR® to guide you. I help 24 to 28 families each year buy or sell a home. I have been a financial & real estate consultant for the past 30 years and specialized in loan loss mitigation, short sale negotiation and REO marketing. I know how to negotiate contracts & navigate through the most difficult transactions. Chris B Johnson CalBRE 01501699-Allison James Estates & Homes CalBRE 01885684

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Moorpark Country Club Estates and Moorpark Highlands Luxury Home Specialist #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home

Ventura County Short Sale Specialist Why Bankruptcy May Not Work

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Oxnard REO Coming To Market Featured Listing Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home Chris B Johnson, REALTOR®, SFR®, CDPE®, CHS®Supreme Court Outlaws Chapter 7 ‘Stripping Off’ of Second MortgagesThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an underwater secon...

12/30/2015

Are You Thinking of Selling Your Home? Get Ready to Negotiate!

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Oxnard REO Coming To Market Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home Thinking of Selling Your Home? Get Ready to Negotiate! Tuesday December 29th, 2015 For Sellers, FSBO's Now that the market has showed signs of recovery, some sellers may be tempted to try a...

12/29/2015

Don’t Let Rising Rents Trap You! #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR®, SFR®, CDPE®, CHS® Oxnard REO Coming To Market Don’t Let Rising Rents Trap You! Monday December 28th, 2015 Down Payments, First Time Home Buyers, For Buyers There are many benefits to homeownership. One of the top ones is being able to protect yourself from rising r...

12/28/2015

Ventura County Mortgage Rate Update #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home Weekly Mortgage Rate Update The Fed meeting was essentially the only focus for investors over the past week. Financial markets experienced a great deal of volatility both before and after Wednesday's highly a...

12/21/2015

Ventura County Short Sale Specialist #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

VenturaCountyShortSaleSpecialist,Local real estate conditions are changing and your Market Insider provides valuable, up-to-date information about the communities important to you. View critical information about what is happening now, so you can be a "Market Insider"! Market Area: 93021 Listing...

12/19/2015

Will Ventura County Short Sales Get Another Year Of Tax Exemption?

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home California May Pay You To Short Sale Home sales continue to outstrip supply as the number of homes for sale and months of inventory available continue to decline. The Market Action Index has been moving ...

12/18/2015

Cash Is King (Again) #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Oxnard REO Coming To Market Santa Paula Home For SaleCALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 16, 2015 – California single-family home and condominium sales fell 22.0 percent in November to 27,105, down from a revised 34,760 in October. On a year-ago basis, sales were...

12/17/2015

Are Interest Rates Actually Lower? #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Featured Listing Mortgage Pre Approval Time To Buy A Home Average 30-Year Conventional Commitment Rate Chart update 12/10/15 Current12/10/153.92% Month ago 11/12/15 3.96% Year ago 12/11/14 3.87% The average 30-year commitment rate is the rate at which a lender c...

12/17/2015

The Fed's Decision To Raise Interest Rates Does NOT Matter

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Oxnard REO Coming To Market Santa Paula Home For SaleThe tweet, written by CNBC reporter Diana Olick, referred to the Federal Reserve’s decision (check#FedDecision for the latest tweets) to raise the target federal funds rate by a quarter point, the first time rat...

12/16/2015

The Fed Finally Raises Rates #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

Chris B Johnson, REALTOR® Oxnard REO Coming To Market Santa Paula Home For SaleThe Federal Reserve made the long-awaited, much-anticipated announcement on Wednesday afternoon that federal funds target rate will increase by 25 basis points from its near-zero level where it has been since 2006....

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Moorpark Country Club Estates and Moorpark Highlands Luxury Home Specialist #ChrisBJohnsonRealtor

Santa Paula Home For Sale Chris B Johnson, REALTOR®, SFR®, CDPE®, CHS® Oxnard REO Coming To Market

This beautiful midcentury house situated in California, was designed in 2014 by Klopf Architecture.

Description by Klopf Architecture

The owners of this property had been away from the Bay Area for many years, and looked forward to returning to an elegant mid-century modern house. The one they bought was anything but that. Faced with a “remuddled” kitchen from one decade, a haphazard bedroom / family room addition from another, and an otherwise disjointed and generally run-down mid-century modern house, the owners asked Klopf Architecture and Envision Landscape Studio to re-imagine this house and property as a unified, flowing, sophisticated, warm, modern indoor / outdoor living space for a family of five.

Opening up the spaces internally and from inside to out was the first order of business. The formerly disjointed eat-in kitchen with 7 foot high ceilings were opened up to the living room, re-oriented, and replaced with a spacious cook’s kitchen complete with a row of skylights bringing light into the space. Adjacent the living room wall was completely opened up with La Cantina folding door system, connecting the interior living space to a new wood deck that acts as a continuation of the wood floor. People can flow from kitchen to the living / dining room and the deck seamlessly, making the main entertainment space feel at once unified and complete, and at the same time open and limitless.

Klopf opened up the bedroom with a large sliding panel, and turned what was once a large walk-in closet into an office area, again with a large sliding panel. The master bathroom has high windows all along one wall to bring in light, and a large wet room area for the shower and tub. The dark, solid roof structure over the patio was replaced with an open trellis that allows plenty of light, brightening the new deck area as well as the interior of the house.

All the materials of the house were replaced, apart from the framing and the ceiling boards. This allowed Klopf to unify the materials from space to space, running the same wood flooring throughout, using the same paint colors, and generally creating a consistent look from room to room. Located in Lafayette, CA this remodeled single-family house is 3,363 square foot, 4 bedroom, and 3.5 bathroom.

Photography by Mariko Reed

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