Remember in April, 2020 when everyone was scared to death to list their house for sale because they didn’t want to catch the dreaded covid from strangers coming through? When agents were required to wipe down the house after every showing? It was the month that there was a big drop-off in new listings – […more]
These local heroes are playing at the Prohibition Lounge tonight at 8:30pm!!
Update: The Real Estate Market in North County San Diego Data Source: Mylene’s Real Estate Market Report uses data from CRMLS for 2018-2022 and represents properties listed or sold by various brokers. Housing Inventory As we enter the spring season, we’re still seeing low inventory all over North County. Between March and April, inventory went…
When people are looking for the perfect ‘forever’ home that will last them for a lifetime, any additional cost isn’t going to phase them – or at least it won’t affect the affluent folks. Most are making it up elsewhere when they sell their previous home or rental properties, inherit big money or receive a […more]
My tours of mid-range coastal suburban homes that sold for a big pop over list are slowing. But it’s mostly due to the lack of inventory – I wish I could do more!
The network insinuates that auctions are giving houses away, but the initial prices seem ridiculous: Dr. Alex Khadavi, a celebrity skin doctor in Los Angeles, was hoping for a quick sale and big payday when he finally completed a 21,000-square-foot mansion that took seven years and tens of millions of dollars to develop. But a […more]
https://homelightblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HomeLight-Buyer-Seller-Insights-2022.pdf This looks pretty normal: In an era where 50% or more of the homes for sale receive multiple offers, yet half or more of the sellers don’t ask the buyers to improve their offer – they just grab one instead? Money is being left on the table coast-to-coast: We make sure you don’t end […more]
If you’re worried about wildfires and earthquakes…..you can always move to Detroit! Millions of Americans are living in communities with precarious climate conditions, in houses that feel overpriced. There is a solution for many of these people, though: Move to one of the so-called climate havens. Climate havens or climate destinations are situated in places […more]
After seeing two homes go off for more than $4,000,000, buying this for $3,100,000 probably doesn’t seem so bad. But the house next door closed for $2,450,000, and the highest sale on this street was $2,220,000 twelve months earlier and was a newer Davidson home up around the bend:
Our Carmel Valley listing closed escrow yesterday! It was the 3br/2.5 ba, 1,804sf home built in 1989 that we completed about $60,000 worth of upgrades in preparing for market (it had been a rental for years). The before-and-after photos were featured here: The house looked great and it was vacant but this was when I […more]