What: The La Jolla Art & Wine Festival Where: Girard Ave, La Jolla When: Saturday, October 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, October 7, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Why: To bring our artists' roots back to La Jolla, to celebrate our wonderful community, and to raise...
Year: 2018
Carlsbad-Adjacent
Our friend and previous seller Tom T is putting the finishing touches on his latest project, and it's a gem - it will be ready next week!
Quitting California
From the latimes.com: A report from the state Legislative Analyst’s Office earlier this year confirmed the obvious: People are leaving California. Between 2007 and 2016, we lost 6 million residents to domestic migration. Our population still grew overall, gracias to...
Compass 2
When we made the decision to join with Compass, it was the future of the business that was a primary concern. The I-news summed it up well in their profile of Nick Segal, the founder of one of the SF brokerages recently purchased, and we could relate to what he...
Compass
Today was our Compass Day. We met our CEO, Robert Reffkin, and we were thoroughly impressed. We come from different backgrounds - I'm the scrappy street guy, and he is the Wall Street wunderkind - but we see the future of real estate the same way. He mingled for...
Marty Balin, RIP
We lost a legend this week. You wouldn't know it based on the amount of video footage, because there isn't much. But when it comes to bands who got us through the 60s, is there any more influential in California than the Jefferson Airplane? But unfortunately Marty...
Local Home Sales, YTD
The California Association of Realtors predicted that statewide sales in 2018 would increase 1%, and the California median sales price would rise 4.2%. My guess was for the San Diego County detached-home sales to drop 5%, and the median sales price to rise 5% in 2018....
Room Addition
Do you have those high ceilings over the living area, and wonder about turning it into usable space? We've done three of them over the years, and I got the camera rolling for this one:
Robotic Real Estate
Below is the evidence put forth by a Bay Area realtor to show two things: Redfin home-value estimates are tied to the list price, and their estimates are increased as they gauge the traffic. Buyers are assuming the Redfin estimates to be accurate, and rely on them...
Ponto’s Last Stand
From the Reader: Pressure to develop a project on one of North County’s last, large coastal properties may be coming to a head, but not if the residents in the South Carlsbad community of Ponto have anything to say about it. So far, members of a neighborhood...