My friends and clients who bought a La Jolla fixer and did a phenomenal remodel are featured in the latest edition of San Diego Home & Garden Magazine. It's not online, but I found a copy at Barnes & Noble! Here's my video tour:
Here's a less-hysterical article about people leaving California - it seems about 28% have been wanting to leave for years, and only 13% have done it. An excerpt: Berkeley pollsters found 24% of voters had given serious consideration to moving out of California with...
Understanding the housing market requires in-depth knowledge about the participants. Each year, Zillow surveys more than 10,000 market participants — homeowners, buyers, sellers and renters — to learn more about them and gauge their attitudes and behavior. Here’s a...
Hat tip to Susie for sending in the article about the Ennis House selling for $18 million: Since last...
I was talking to Nick yesterday about the current market conditions, and how home sale have been affected by the low mortgage rates recently. You can see in the graph above that over the last five years we've been accustomed to rates in the threes, so it seemed...
There has been more jostling than ever about how we sell homes, and the role of the MLS. Either we can have everyone commit to the MLS as the primary marketplace, or blow the whole thing up - which seems to be the current path. Rob succinctly lays out his case here:...
In case you haven't heard....
This video has almost 4 million views in its first 10 days on YouTube:
Remember before the last crash when buyers and sellers were far more cavalier about their real estate decisions? Why was that? Because if they needed to move again, there were always a reasonably-priced house down the street or around the corner for sale. But things...
The Battle of Segovia is over. Two of the same models were for sale across the street from each other in La Costa. I had listed the green house on May 30th for $859,000, but because the seller claimed to be intensely private, he didn't want it on the MLS, no signs,...
