Yesterday, we had the west coast premiere of Giorgio's documentary film, 'Owned: A Tale of Two Americas' at the SF Doc Fest. Here are tidbits: For those in the Bay Area, it is playing again at the Roxie on Wednesday night at 9:30pm, and will be at other film...
Year: 2018
San Diego Real Estate Floss
This has had over 873,000 views on Facebook in the last week:
Holy Cannoli
80 Is The New 65
Two good reasons why boomers aren't selling: They are working longer, and kids still live at home (or might return): Thanks to their...
More on Pocket Listings
The standard knee-jerk response about pocket listings is to insist that some sellers don't want to be on the open market for personal reasons, and that's fine. In reality, those should be limited to major Hollywood icons who are unsure of how much their star-power...
FTC and DOJ Realtor Workshop
The FTC and DOJ conducted a workshop this week about the competitiveness in real estate. There hasn't been much press coverage, but Rob has summed up the bulk of it here: [button link="http://www.notorious-rob.com/2018/06/brief-reflections-on-the-doj-ftc-panel/"...
RSF Whispering Palms Fixer
This 3br/2ba, 1,930sf house listed for $1,399,000 originally, but closed for $1,250,000 in March after 38 days on the market. The tax assessor loves these long-time owners turning over - the previous tax value was $172,330!
No Time
The Guess Who might be one of the most underrated bands of all-time! Burton Cummings is still touring Canada at 70 years old, and he just put his LA house on the market for $4,950,000 (he paid $1,750,000 five years ago):
IRS Says No To Charitable Contributions
Geez, they're no fun..... The Treasury Department and the IRS announced in Notice 2018-54 that they intend to propose regulations aimed at countering the efforts of California and other states in their attempts to help taxpayers get around the new $10,000 cap on state...
Recession 2020?
Zillow's panel of economists is forecasting the next recession, with 66% of them predicting it will start between 4Q19 and 1Q21: Experts in housing are predicting a recession starting in 2020, according to Zillow’s 2018 Q2 Home Price Expectations Survey; however, they...