Hat tip to daytrip for sending this in: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150901-luxury-for-the-pinterest-crowd For the Pinterest generation, which is used to browsing and pinning glamorous photos of home decor, showcasing their own magazine-worthy spaces online is...
Jimmy driving an old Chevy truck in this video:
Readers may think that this business may have a few bad apples, but overall, won't any agent do? How bad can it be? Here's a story heard recently - and this is typical of the insanity that goes on every day: An agent who was a professed 'neighborhood specialist'...
Hat tip to the reader who sent this in: Today's post about discounting realtors dove tails nicely with my neighbor. He was adamant about doing the sale himself in order to save on commission. However, when his sale blew up in escrow he relented, and now he has hired a...
Tom Ferry is real estate's #1 educator, and he and his staff are coaching realtors around the world. He was gracious enough to allow me to run his latest video below, where he discusses the developing trends in the business: Right off the bat, he mentions Commission...
Above is a graph of the San Diego Case-Shiller Index for the last ten years. How much higher can it go? 1. The highest reading was 251.71 in March, 2006. After that, the index dropped 42% in three years, bottoming at 145.70 in April, 2009. We have gotten about 61%...
It didn't show up well in this video, but on the 1956 Nomads you fill up the gas tank by lifting the left tail light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Nomad
Happy Lab Day! Say hello to 12-year old Bailey: Today's NSDCC median list price is $1,950,000! Click on the link below for the complete NSDCC active-inventory data: The UNDER-$800,000 Market: Date NSDCC Active Listings Avg. LP/sf DOM Avg SF November 25 95 $376/sf 47...
Statistically, our local market is holding up. Average and median pricing will bounce around, but the number of August sales was decent. The year-over-year sales increased on the lower end, but the total month-over-month decline was sharper this year. Last year the...
Here is the discussion with Chuck about one of his higher-end carpets, plus a new rug that is guaranteed against pet damage:
