Sellers who are forced to fend for themselves are smart to consider all the angles. But you hate hearing people being put in this position:
Fraud or Favor?
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Month: August 2015
San Diego is Eighth Hottest Market
We finally edged ahead of Detroit. From HW - link HERE Whether to buy or sell may not be clear following recent housing indicators, which offered contradictory points of view. But Jonathan Smoke, chief economist at realtor.com, says the residential real estate market...
Corner Lots
The bearish outlook on corner lots - less privacy, more dog poo! Oh sure, you’ve got a bigger lot and neighbors on only two sides, but the cons far outweigh the pros. In fact, besides often being more expensive to buy, here are 21 additional reasons why corner lots...
Super Drone
Yesterday, the 16th annual Debbie Olivier Easter Seals golf tournament was at the Pala Mesa Resort for the first time. Here's a brief helicopter tour:
Rest of 2015
This summer's 3-mo moving averages look quite different from last year. In 2014, the list-pricing started to falter as summer approached, and stumbled along until this spring. But since then, we've been on a tear! How can it be explained? The lower-end buyers are...
Inventory Watch
Hello August! The summer market is winding down, and the unsuccessful sellers will be cancelling their listings over the next two months - which is great for buyers. Why? Because any new listings won't be using those OPTs as price indicators! Click on the link below...
Weekend in LA
The transition of our daughter Natalie moving to Los Angeles has begun. We went with her for a weekend dance convention, and used our hotel points collected over the last 10-20 years to score a free room in a downtown hotel. Little did I know that it was five minutes...
House-Price Torpedos
Their agents are telling buyers to wait...but wait for what? Wait how long? Wait for who? It's irresponsible to make such casual comments. Not mentioned in this article is that a good agent can overcome all these obstacles, and a bad agent makes them worse:...
Home-Value Guessing
I don't remember ever hearing about this guy, but he was part of the Case-Shiller team that devised the Index, and now he does his own thing. Here they developed a tool to predict the chances of hitting your target value in the next year. Click on the link below and...
