An excerpt on the Seahaus condo development in La Jolla, a Barratt American project: Instead of sawn wood or steel beams, Seahaus's skeleton is made of "parallel strand lumber" beams -- long strands of wood from small trees glued together to make beams. The...
A brief youtube tour of new and old Spanish-style homes - the last two are from the 1920s!
The future of real estate should include videos. If you just look at the comps on paper, there was the similar REO sale a few doors down (which we saw) that closed last month for full price, $792,000, but it was on the golf course, down off La Costa Ave. The inferior...
Yesterday in Part 1, we saw that that more and more real estate websites keep rolling out. Is that the future, more gadgets? Undoubtedly there will always be more new websites to empower participants with more information. Is information all you need to successfully...
A few on the foreclosure list in 92008, all are around Tamarack, just east of the I-5 freeway:
Hat tip to Susie for sending this along, from latimes.com: Anyone who has ever had a beef with a real estate agent should take a look at the website ReallyRottenRealty.com. It's all in fun, but the name suggests what some buyers and sellers believe to be true — that...
I am proud to have Bryce Lucore, a fourth-generation local realtor, be part of Klinge Realty. Here's a story about his great-great-grandfather, who was born in 1868 and moved to Oceanside in 1928. He was one of a couple of Realtors in Oceanside at that time. He sold...
SM keeps them coming, the third installment from Seattle: The woman who was hauled away for squatting in a $3.3 million house? She has no intention of backing down. She's going to keep staking her claim to a house she insists nobody actually owns. Plus she is staking...
One more note on the nomination - Inman News is the sponsor, which publishes an e-newsletter sent twice a day to agents around the country. Their mission is to help agents, and while I'm a daily reader, I don't cover realtor-centric topics here. I figure that they...
