We've said that the low-end of each market has been hopping - look at the market for houses priced under $1,500,000 between La Jolla and Carlsbad: The NSDCC Under-$1,500,000 Market Active listings: 135 Pending listings: 128 The actives-to-pendings ratio of nearly 1:1...
The key benefit of staging is to make the online photos look more enticing:
In spite of the hysterics presented by those with an agenda, it turns out the tax reform might not be as bad for housing as they thought - at least for those who make less than $20 million per year. From HW: For the most part, the latest tax reform will boost the...
With the lack of new homes available, the flipped homes have become a substitute for buyers who don't want to do any repairs or improvements. Here are four good questions: Question #1: Have the Renovations Been Permitted? Question #2: Were the Sub Contractors...
Here's a video tour of our new listing at 4150 Karst Rd., which is a 3 br/2.5 ba, 1,390sf townhouse with stainless/granite kitchen, 2-car attached garage, central A/C - plus a view of the Lake Calavera Preserve, the largest of Carlsbad's managed nature preserves. ...
More agents reacting to the current MLS situation, which is bleak: Is the Realtor-run property listing service in California obsolete? Several brokers, agents and “multiple listing service” operators expressed concern during a panel discussion Wednesday that...
We have convinced the public that buying and selling 'off-market' properties is sexy and cool, and the high-end agents in Los Angeles took it a step further to create a website to share listings privately. The PLS.com has 476 listings so far! I'd expect some quirky...
David left us two years ago today:
Hard to get too concerned about a 10% drop in sales YoY, when inventory was down more than that, and the rest of the stats held up nicely: NSDCC December Sales Year Number of Sales Avg. Cost Per SF Median SP Avg Days on Market 2013 211 $485/sf $1,075,000 60 2014 250...
I guess we probably won't hear much about the tax reform hurting the market? This CBS News piece doesn't mention it, and realtors are happy to stoke the hurry-up-and-buy mentality:
