If you are looking for a horse facility that is closer to town than most, yet has plenty of hills and trails for riding, check out this property:
Elfin Horse Ranch
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Month: November 2012
More 2013 Precursor
Can we predict what sellers will do next year? Let's look at what they are doing now - certainly today's sellers have heard that market is hot due to the low inventory, and they are hoping to capitalize. Can they keep their optimism under control? This should be a...
Carmel Valley Test Case
There are probably those who are formulating their predictions about the 2013 market, and now that the comments are on, are getting ready to share with us what they see coming down the road. Lately the media has been unabashed in their fondness for the apparent...
Arroyo Wrap
What do you do when a house falls out of escrow when there was a load of interest and/or offers? Usually you'll see the listing agent immediately throw the property back into the MLS's active category, subject to cancellation of the previous escrow. If previously...
Beach Opportunity
Terramar is my favorite neighborhood in Carlsbad. It is about 300 houses within two blocks of the beach near Cannon and Carlsbad Blvd. where you find older houses on 7,000sf to 11,000sf lots with no fees and just a bunch of great neighbors. It's also where the...
Holiday Cheer
It's the week of Thanksgiving - thanks for being here! On September 27th when the comments went off, I thought we'd lose a third of the audience. Over the last thirty days we've had only 13% fewer unique visitors than during the 30 days prior to September 27th. The...
Old Del Mar Brick
They try to sell this house every year between tenants, which is a smart move. They did lower the price this year, from the $1,985,000 they've been asking over the last 3 years. They paid $1,625,000 in 2004:
Buying to Spin Off
This was on the bubbleinfo twitter a couple of days ago, but this excerpt deserves specific attention for those who are wondering who is creating the floor in the market: Blackstone, the world’s largest private-equity firm, has spent about $1.5 billion on 10,000...
Researching Realtors
It is getting easier to investigate realtors on-line. We've already seen that www.neighborcity.com allows you to research an agent's recent sales history. The realtor-groups that pool all the team's sales under one agent are still deceiving (Redfin and...
The Ranch in Carlsbad
This is a good example of being close, but not close enough - buyers are very picky:
