From the VOSD: By the end of the year, Carmel Valley will likely know the fate of the controversial proposed mega development, One Paseo. The $650 million project, paid for by developer Kilroy Realty, would create a dense, multi-purpose commercial and residential area...
Month: January 2013
More Transparency
Sitegeist is a mobile application that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Drawing on publicly available information, the app presents solid data in a simple at-a-glance format to help you tap into the pulse of your location. From demographics...

Montrose
Unfortunately Ronnie Montrose died last year at age 64. Here's an early tape, with a lead singer you probably know:

More Head-Shaking
What a week of flippers!
Reasonable Pricing
Let's review the pricing expectations for 2013, and how this thing works. Every seller wants more than the last guy, and buyers are willing to pay the same as the last guy. The Compromise Buyers and sellers agree to a price that's a little higher than the last guy....
American FactFinder
For those who are crazy about housing data will dig this: Writers, researchers, and those interested in housing market data have a great new tool to work (or play) with, courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The...

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The hits just keep on coming! They did add a garage.

More 4Q Sales Than New Listings
This graph shows how sales exploded last year, right about the time that buyers realized that they could get a mortgage rate in the 3s: Rates had been dropping over the previous three years, but sales were uniform - strong during the six-month selling season, and...

On the ‘front
Last year flippers were happy making $100,000 in a few months - this year it's $200,000....or more.

FLW in Santa Fe
The only adobe structure designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1920s was supposed to be built in El Paso, TX. But due to circumstances — rumored to be differences of opinion between Wright and the homeowner — the project never came to be, and by the end of the...