Here are the haunted places around Carlsbad, though they didn't mention this house on the corner of Highland and Oak - go by for a look! http://paranormalistics.blogspot.com/2012/07/haunted-locations-in-carlsbad-village.html
Year: 2017
More on September Sales
From the C.A.R. press release: “While it’s encouraging that statewide home sales improved both monthly and annually, the year-over-year sales rate is losing steam, reflecting the persistent shortage of homes for sale and an easing of concern over a surge in mortgage...
Amazon to Chula Vista?
We're in the running - and only $400 million in incentives! LINK San Diego’s region-wide bid for Amazon‘s second headquarters was sent off Wednesday, one day before the online retailing giant’s deadline, according to the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp....
Gord Downie, RIP
We lost another all-timer today, Gord Downie, 53, lead singer of The Tragically Hip. He started the band with high-school friends from Kingston, Canada, made great music for 34 years, and died yesterday of brain cancer in his hometown, which is the way it should...
This Week’s Disrupter
This start-up has the right ingredients, but their auctions do have a reserve amount and no buyer-agent commissions, which cuts out other agents. They say "No Double Ending', but when the buyers are unrepresented it puts the listing agent in an agency position - if...
Cliffhanger
Hat tip to daytrip for sending this in - the price is now down to $699,000: Homes near this Chapel Drive neighborhood fetch about $1.5 million, and Crowell priced this property as such. She figures it will cost $300,000 to stabilize the hill that got washed away...
Gap Between Median List and Sale Prices
Reader hema-mendo wondered about the mega-gap between the NSDCC median list price, and median sales price for the last 30 days: I don’t get it. Why is the spread so wide? It is a bit alarming to see more than a million-dollar gap between the two: NSDCC median list...
Boom-Bust Comparison
Good to see the California crash of the early 1990s get a mention here. It was a hum-dinger for its time - but they note below that the full recovery only took eight years too. http://www.mortgagenewsdaily.com/10122017_home_prices.asp With home prices nearly back to...
Chris G.’s Experience
Among others, Chris referred his mother-in-law to me!
2018 Forecast
The 2018 forecast from the California Association of Realtors is out, and they are towing the company line as usual. They expect the statewide sales to increase 1% and the California median sales price to rise 4.2% next year. How is San Diego County doing this year?...