Kayla and I saw this house on broker preview day in May, and filmed this for a potential buyer. It has since closed for $3,050,000 cash last month, which shows how Del Mar Terrace is getting more love these days! I said in the video that you'd be seeing some dazzling...
Month: August 2014
Flanker
There is so little confidence in realtor.com that the major players are creating their own real estate search portals. These portals could require the consumer to at least register your name and email address, and then the solicitations will commence. The article...
Slowing Sales
We are still getting reports that year-over-year sales are declining, and that means something is wrong or bad. Below they are comparing the counts to last year's frenzy numbers and are crying wolf. But what do you expect when the frenzy is over? Our local stats...
Lend a Helping Hand
Snippets of things happening around town. There's a guy in here who could use your help - if you can do anything for him, he'd probably appreciate it:
Inventory Watch
Last month we had 452 new listings in NSDCC, which is the second lowest July total of the last five years. But they aren't selling like they used to, and the count of active listings has risen sharply over the last few weeks: The UNDER-$800,000 Market: Date NSDCC...
Rod Run
The full tour of mostly Chevys below! The non-gearheads can repeat the first Kayla's Korner video (she does has more than one outfit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-BaeXkC84M
Homebuyer Tips 2014
The son of a past client scored a good job in San Francisco a few years back, and is looking at 1-bedroom condos going for $700,000 - $800,000. They wondered if I had any tips. Good golly, at that rate I better come up with something! HOMEBUYING TIPS 1. Get a good...
‘Coming Soon’ Report
Zillow's "Coming Soon" feature is picking up steam - up to 16 listings in SDCO: Here is the list of 16 properties: http://tinyurl.com/lt2bdwu But that's out of 8,669 properties for sale, which is only 2/10s of 1%. We would need hundreds of Coming Soons to have any...
Carmel Valley PHR
As prices rise, the inferior locations are the first to feel it - although this is an extreme example. But hey, it's Carmel Valley!
Effects of Zillow/Trulia Merger
The folks at Inman News asked people in the business how they thought the ZT merger would affect brokers and agents: http://www.inman.com/2014/08/01/the-bottom-line-of-the-zillow-trulia-deal-for-brokers-and-agents/ I was one of the agents invited - here are my...