San Diego

More Oceanfront

Jul 2, 2022 |

Let’s go from $23,500,000 in Leucadia to $2,333,000 – and be on the same ocean!

Crescent House

Jul 1, 2022 |

Kelly has done a masterful job getting mass exposure coast-to-coast, and here’s Architectural Digest’s tour. Just don’t read the YouTube comments:

The Squeeze on Buyer-Agents

Jul 1, 2022 |

We are witnessing the demise of buyer-agents. The squeeze is coming from several directions, and all are rooted in the fact that there isn’t enough business to go around. Thankfully, half of the realtors are of retirement age, and will drift away naturally. The pending class-action lawsuits will likely de-couple the commissions, and sellers won’t […more]

Attractive Pricing Works

Jun 30, 2022 |

I mentioned the strategy we employed on Avenida Sierra. After a low-priced new listing came on the market at $1,350,000 the day before we were going to launch, we lowered our list price from $1,595,000 to $1,395,000 to ensure that we were as attractive as any of the six competing listings (four of which had […more]

June Listings and Sales, Preliminary

Jun 30, 2022 |

We knew at the beginning of June that we wouldn’t get to 200 sales, just by the number of pendings: NSDCC June Listings and Sales Year # of Listings # of Sales L/S 2015 527 340 1.55 2016 513 312 1.64 2017 416 360 1.56 2018 476 299 1.59 2019 435 282 1.54 2020 448 […more]

California Dream For All

Jun 29, 2022 |

More on one of the proposals to spend the state’s budget surplus.  It doesn’t make the homes any cheaper, so home buying will still be limited to the affluent who can afford the payments: First-time buyers often rely on family gifts to afford the down payments on their homes. Now California Legislators want the government […more]

JtR in Village Park!

Jun 28, 2022 |

Check out our new listing! 1938 Park Dale Lane, Encinitas 2 br/2 ba, 1,080sf YB: 1978 HOA = $325/mo. LP = $849,000 You can still buy a Village Park home in the $800,000s! This one feels like a detached-home too, and is surrounded by greenbelts. One-story, new flooring and paint, private backyard, 2-car garage, air-conditioning, […more]

San Diego Case-Shiller Index, Apr

Jun 28, 2022 |

My guess is we’ll be 400+ at the end of the year, or about the same as February.  A flat-pricing environment is the easiest of all the choices for buyers and sellers – just sell for the same amount as the last guy. San Diego Non-Seasonally-Adjusted CSI changes Observation Month SD CSI M-o-M chg Y-o-Y […more]

Avoiding A Price War

Jun 26, 2022 |

My new listing at 3534 Avenida Sierra, priced at $1,395,000, is one of six for sale in Lomas Serenas – four of which have listed in the last week.  When you have a competition like this, you want to be the first one to sell and avoid a potential price war which could erupt in […more]

Post-Frenzy Pricing

Jun 25, 2022 |

When evaluating how much to pay for a home today, I made the case with buyers that logically I’d like use the original list prices of comps . Those listing agents of recent sales nearby have probably used the over-bid prices of comparable sales, but at least those were from closings as far back as […more]