"Jim, you feature these McMansions all the time - what can I get for a half-million?" This closed for $475,000 cash in March, 2018:
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Month: November 2018
The End is Near
Our broker-cooperation model of sharing listings though the MLS has been the lifeblood of selling homes since the early 1960s. But it is breaking down right before our eyes. It's not going to happen all at once, or even happen out in the open. Instead, the sharing...
Very Brady
There’s something fabulously far-out happening at HGTV. Maybe you’ve heard the rumblings. The network has purchased one of the most universally recognized homes in America — the 'Brady Bunch' house — and plans are underway to restore it to its full, resplendent,...
Population Projections
How can sales and prices keep going? With more people arriving. SANDAG projects 1,000,000 more people will be living in the county by 2050, and this graph shows a surging wave of humans going through middle age: [OC] US Population Projections by age through 2060 from...
The ‘Rancho’ Effect
People are feeling a 'change' in the market, and wonder what will happen. The rapid escalation of prices has turned real estate into a rich man's game - and you need serious horsepower to participate! As the rest of North San Diego County's coastal housing market...
Real Concern or Self-Sidelining?
Price Discovery: What price reflects the risk? It was $675,000 last week:
John Doe – “A Little More Time”
JD on 12-string with Cindy Wasserman and Dave Carpenter: Read “A Little More Time” by John Doe (X) on Genius
Encinitas Oceanfront $6.5M
This new house listed in September, 2017 for $7,300,000, and it just closed Monday for $6,500,000 (and another oceanfront house listed for $10,500,000 went pending today):
Two Out Of Five, For Now
This is a real estate blog, not political, but legislation gets passed that affects real estate decision-making. Here is what the HW said we can expect from the new HofR:...
Prop 5 Defeated
Prop 5, the project of the California Association of Realtors, was soundly defeated - but it won't be the last time we hear about the issue. The supporters only spent half the money raised: California voters have rejected a ballot measure to expand a property tax...
