People wonder how a sleepy little beach town will ever be able to keep the housing bubble afloat. But Carlsbad isn't just a bunch of flower fields and surf shops any more! Carlsbad Top Employers: ViaSat, Inc. – communications Thermo Fisher Scientific – biotechnology...
Year: 2018
Trump Tower
Timing your home's sale is critical - and it helps if your realtor has some 'international reach' too! Thanks daytrip: The apartment directly below President Donald Trump’s opulent bedroom at Trump Tower is going up for sale for $24.5 million — and it’s not clear if...
Sunset Strip
This sold to an entertainment attorney for $31,500,000 in April, which was the sixth time it sold since 1995. The developer paid $4,900,000 in 2013:
Housing Prices to Revert to Trendline?
We're going to be fed a solid diet of ivory-tower analyses from now on, because when you look at the history, it sure seems like home prices are due to come down. What these authors fail to consider is how the Bank of Mom and Dad has made the current pseudo-bubble...
Quick Kitchen Updates
Sellers need to do more updating and improving to get their home sold these days, but you don't want to go crazy. Here are a few quick ideas from Bob Vila: 10 Kitchen Updates You Can Do in a Day You don't have to live with your ugly cabinets one minute longer! There...
Aretha
So many loving tributes today to the Queen of Soul that I couldn't help but acknowledge the greatest wife role in the history of film - her appearance in the Blues Brothers (he left anyway):
Premium for One-Story Houses
It's easy for me to pop off about how hot the one-story market is when I already had this video in the can. Here are a few examples of how much over list price people have paid - I'm not making fun of them, just pointing out the struggle if you are a buyer in this...
Should Buyers Wait?
Should buyers wait a while to see what happens to the housing market? Are we just seeing the usual end-of-selling-season malaise when where all of the motivated sellers have succeeded, and just the OPTs are stacking up? Or has the market shifted.....for good? Is this...
Dallas
Daytrip keeps an eye out for the interesting buys - here's one from Texas: Only $1,725,000! Link to...
List-Price Increments
We see people changing their price by $1,000 or $5,000, and it makes you wonder what they are doing. They can't actually believe that it will do any good, can they? Here's why they do it. Realtors tend to live off their MLS hotsheet, which is the day's summary...