Zillow started their 'Coming Soon' feature in the summer of 2014, so by now the gimmick is maturing. Agents have worked every angle of it, and consumers have seen it all too. Everybody comes to their own conclusions. Here's how one consumer described it to me...
Month: March 2018
Zillow Bending
This post was generally positive about Zillow's future, but a commenter left this remark about Zillow puffing their counts: Interesting that you repeatedly quote 'according to management' - did it cross your mind that Zillow management exaggerate performance with over...
Inventory Watch – Spring Selling Season
The spring selling season is underway! This week we had 100+ new listings for the first time since July, and the number of pendings has increased from 280 to 339 over the last month. Here is the breakdown of how the action has improved in the last 30 days: NSDCC...
Downtown Close
This closed for $1,240,000 last month.
State Says ‘Build More Housing’
From the mayor: This week at SANDAG (the county's regional transportation board), we heard for the first time the amount of housing the state is proposing for our county in the next eight-year housing cycle. I hope you're sitting down – it's 21,000 new homes annually,...
Carlsbad $1,149,000
Miki has a new listing overlooking the lagoon - there will be some freeway noise, but the plant/smokestack should be torn down this year: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4546-Horizon-Dr-Carlsbad-CA-92008/16650071_zpid/
San Diego Peak-to-Trough-to-Now
The trough for San Diego was April, 2009. Interestingly, only four of the 10 largest metros in the study - Washington D.C., Seattle, Austin and Denver - are considered overvalued. This indicates that despite the growth in home prices in metros like San Diego and...
Cheerleading?
Six or seven more rate hikes by the end of next year? First you tried to tank the market with your faulty tax-reform scare, and now you're predicting rate hikes for 2019? You're supposed to be helping us! Thanks for nothing Yunnie!!
Doc-Film World Premiere
Giorgio has worked his tail off for four years to bring his documentary film to fruition, and now it's set to debut at the largest doc-film festival in the world! The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical...
NSDCC February Sales
Note the train tracks to the left - just 45 trains per day! John Hood and his wife Sally have bought a $21.5 million mansion on an oceanside bluff in Del Mar in the county’s most expensive real estate transaction since 2007. You may recall Hood’s name from headlines...