Have you thought about moving to Boise? Our friend Susie left coastal California for Boise years ago, and is about to put her house (seen here) on the market while her new house is being built - both are good-sized single level homes in the $400,000s. Here's an...
Year: 2018
Real Estate Disruption
The idea of disrupting realtors has been around for years, but now several companies, backed with mega-millions in VC money, are making a dent. They may not be taking a lot of the business away (yet), but they are being noticed. It appears some of the big...
Faster Selling in NSDCC
How fast are houses selling between La Jolla and Carlsbad this year? Number of Days On Market Number of Houses Sold Percent of Total 0-14 days 719 47% 15-30 278 18% 31-45 153 10% 46-60 97 6% 61-75 73 5% 76-90 44 3% 91+ 180 12% We may be selling fewer homes, but they...
Brady House
The Brady Bunch house, a Traditional-style residence near the Colfax Meadows neighborhood, was used for outdoor representations of the beloved television family’s abode. That included the show’s opening and closing scenes as well as numerous interludes to denote the...
Homes of the Future – Cronkite 1967
In 1967, Walter Cronkite showed us what the future of the single family home will look like in 2001 - thanks daytrip:
The Adolescents
Founding member and bassist of the Fullerton punk rock band The Adolescents Steve Soto passed away in his sleep on June 27th. While no official cause of death has been confirmed, friends, family, fans and members of numerous Orange County bands took to social media to...
NSDCC 2Q Sales
Let's examine by zip code where the market might be slowing recently. These are the detached-home sales for the second quarter, plus the current number of pendings in each area: Area Zip Code Sales 2Q16 Sales 2Q17 Sales 2Q18 Pendings Today Cardiff 92007 25 30 11 9...
Pricing Guide 2
The rest of my five minutes on pricing (5:03 to be exact) - when to lower: The first half: https://www.bubbleinfo.com/2018/07/15/pricing-guide/
Ghost-Town Result
Hat tip to Eddie89 for alerting us to how the sale turned out: A bidding war recently broke out over a prime piece of California real estate — and it wasn't for a tiny San Francisco condo. In this case, a dozen offers were made for an entire town, the 19th-century...
Sold Before Processing – The Impact
People question how big of a problem it is that listing agents withhold their listings and sell them before inputting them onto the MLS - which denies their own sellers the benefit of open-market exposure, and potentially a better offer. Above is a sample from today's...