Year: 2017
Kayla’s Trendy Tuesday
Kayla has never lived in the desert: Even though it is "fall," it's 100 degrees outside. WHAT IS HAPPENING??? October is almost over and Halloween is ONE week away! Time to break out the decorations and start carving those pumpkins! Some might be thinking, "Mine are...
Disaster Follow-Up
Whether is be fires, earthquakes, floods, or nuclear attacks, we are all susceptible to being in a disaster zone. How does it affect real estate? Let's keep an eye on the recent fires to gauge what we might expect if disasters came our way. I mentioned in a tweet...
Pt. Loma Mid-Century Modern
Dorothy's obit below: A longtime resident of San Diego, Dorothy was born in 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Fred and Stella Krenning. She was naturally gifted in mathematics, excelled in school, and graduated 2nd in her class at Soldan High School, St. Louis, at the...
This Week’s Disrupter
Talk about buying the listing! This is the UK version of Opendoor, and they are tempting sellers with a promise of a 97% cash advance on their house. This idea is fantastic, and operators could make a bundle, right up until the market flattens out or declines. Then...
Inventory Watch
Let's compare this week NSDCC stats to the same week in 2016: Price Range 2016 # of Listings Avg LP/sf 2017 # of Listings Avg LP/sf 0-$800K 38 $408/sf 17 $443/sf $800-$1400K 259 $437/sf 161 $497/sf $1400K-$2400K 264 $590/sf 261 $623/sf $2,400,000+ 426 $979/sf 373...
Disclosing a Death
Just so you know....
Capital-Gains Tax
Examples of capital-gains tax - let's use this as a marker in case the Trump plan goes through: Dear Liz: We are in the lowest tax bracket. If we sell a capital gains asset worth several hundred thousand dollars, does that put us in a higher bracket and we pay 20% or...
Reclaimed Wood
From Dwell: Wood in general is a beautiful, evocative natural material, and when it's saved from a landfill and reused, it has even more character, history, and sustainability. Reclaimed wood can be recovered from a wide variety of sources, but it most frequently...
Price Reductions
It's the time of year when we see some price adjustments by agents who have tried everything else, to no avail. But how much do you need to reduce the price to cause a sale? Ideally, it needs to be enough to cause buyers who have already seen the house to come back -...
