Short sales should be sold just like the rest. Put an attractive price on it, conduct open-house so every buyer has a chance to not only see the property but the other potential bidders too, and then take all offers:
Year: 2013
CV Insta
A fairly standard offering of a CV McMansion - most of which have been selling with little problem, though $2,000,000 seems to be the ceiling:
Shadow Zombies
From DSNews.com: As home prices improve and headlines spell out recovery, those on the ground in housing markets across the country are encountering a new threat: “zombies.” These so-called “zombie” foreclosures take place when a bank initiates foreclosure on a...
Policy on Raising Property Taxes
Once home values started declining, the San Diego County tax assessor started revising downward the assessed values of properties bought during the peak era. Many were a results of requests made by homeowners, but the assessor's staff also revised some voluntarily. ...
Remodeled Rustic Ranch in RSF
We tried everything possible to sell this for enough to cover the notes, but other agents giving away properties around us prevented us from doing any better. There have been two BPOs completed that were in this range, and the bank couldn't wait any longer - so this...
Sorrento Valley New Listing
A brief preview tour of Richard's new listing off Sorrento Valley Blvd. The 1,902 sf house next door closed for $757,500 on August 13th. We're offering a 4 br/3 ba, 2,178 sf house (with a downstairs bedroom/full bath) on a 7,971 sf west-facing, canyon-front lot for...
SB 30 Fails
From the California Association of Realtors: LOS ANGELES (Sept. 3) – Thanks to partisan political gamesmanship by the Assembly Appropriations Committee, struggling homeowners who sold their homes in a short sale in the past eight months will be further penalized by...
Torrey
This is what it has come to in the 92130. Currently there are 30 detached-homes listed under $1,000,000, and most are either detached condos, old junkers, or in the Poway School District - none of which are a bad thing. But if you want to buy a decent, regular house...
Custom Remodel
The tax rolls say this is 2,358sf, but apparently it didn't bother the buyers - they paid $859,000, which was $10,000 over the top of the range:
Craftsman Tweener
An old classic in Mission Hills that has a lot of appeal, but may come up short for those looking for the complete package: