Last month there were 3,419 houses and condos sold in San Diego County. There are more than 10,000 agents! http://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/become-a-real-estate-agent/ Every month, over 14,000 people Google “how to become a real estate agent,” and consider joining...
It’s hard to fathom how magnificent castles were built centuries ago. One group set out to understand just that by building their own masterpiece two hours outside of Paris. Tucked away in a forest, a team of master builders and archeologists are attempting to...
We just cut our Zillow advertising back to the minimum. At the beginning of the year, we made the plunge and took on about 18% of the Encinitas territory. We definitely got more calls! Here are the incoming calls and emails per month - total is 157: The best...
We've talked about the importance of staging, but there are other simple things you can do to improve your look. Rooms with low ceilings can feel smaller and darker than they actually are. Here are some great ideas to offset that feeling!...
We figure a 'healthy' market has a 2:1 ratio of active listings to pendings. Here is our last look at the actives/pendings ratio, from March 23rd: Area Zip Code ACT PEND Ratio Median LP of ACT Cardiff 92007 19 11 1.73 $2,449,000 Carlsbad NW 92008 36 26 1.38...
Just a soft friendly encouragement......
The folks at CE are talking about the housing market in the UK, but the principles are similar - if there were more homes selling, it could provide more pricing momentum. Just keep an eye on sales - demand would have to subside for prices to alter their current...
The higher-end inventory has been bloated - today we have 468 NSDCC houses for sale over $2,400,000, and 43 have closed escrow in the last 30 days. But in the next category down, the number of houses for sale has been rising for weeks. On April 18th, we had 257...
They asked, "If you could do anything today, what would it be?" Let's go for a hike! I had found this old article a while back, so we went for it: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/nov/03/roam-maple-canyon-bankers-hill/ Midpoint of the Spruce Street Bridge,...
The two reasons Father's Day is so special - Natalie and Kayla!
