I love the list date - December 25th:
Christmas Lucky
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Year: 2009
Where We Go From Here
Welcome back, I hope you had a great Christmas! I'm looking forward to 2010, more so than any other year. Why? Because I'm convinced that people want the truth, we're going to keep serving it up here at bubbleinfo.com. Taking the high road is wrought with challenges...
Merry Christmas to All
Thank you for helping create a virtual real estate laboratory here for people to explore and educate themselves about home buying and selling. I appreciate you, and your participation! Merry Christmas!
Benefit of Tax Credit
As we wind up 2009, here are more sales statistics. You don't see much extra benefit from the tax credit in the November closings - there was only 10% increase in SFR sales, Y-O-Y, and 29% increase in condo sales. Did more pending sales get pushed into December or...
2010 Expectations
What can we expect for 2010? Let's review the stats (2009 numbers are up-to-this-morning): SD County Det. 2007 2008 2009 Total listings, year 46,056 42,567 33,573 Total closings, year 15,713 19,103 21,594 4Q Closings 2,965 5,450 4,891 4Q $$-per-sf $329/sf $233/sf...
Bah Humbug
This guy received his first NOD in April, 2006, and has been working the system ever since. Yesterday he listed the house on the MLS for the first time in almost two years with a broker out of the 916 area code. With his next trustee sale date being January 14th (the...
More December Action
It was mentioned that these listing agents might be giving the sellers a holiday break, but most of these were marked pending in the first week or two of December. Hanukkah maybe? I guess it's possible, we will have to see what happens right after the...
More December Heat
Part Two - A listing that gets marked 'pending' probably doesn't mean much, other than there are buyers and sellers that have found agreeable terms, for now. But two things are somewhat surprising: 1. The time of year for activity to spark up. 2. What you get for...
December Boom Fire
Here's Part One - a video tour of the homes that have gone pending during the holidays. The action has been red-hot lately!
4Q09 Stats
Local Boy wondered how Carlsbad was holding up - here's a snapshot of the fourth quarter detached stats for North SD County Coastal region. The area category called 'High' is RSF, Del Mar, Solana Beach, and La Jolla. The 2008 stats were based on Oct. 1st to Dec. 18th:...
