Zillow thinks color is making a comeback - their thoughts: Goodbye, Hygge (look it up). Hello, color! Fun will return to home design in the form of bold prints, lively wallpaper and brightly hued walls. After a decade of Scandinavian modern design that dominated...
We've never had a soft landing before, but this is how I imagine one would look - mortgage rates drop just enough to have sales and pricing level out: Year # of Sales Median SP Avg. Cost-per-sf Median DOM 2014 173 $985,000 $489/sf 34 2015 196 $1,173,750 $518/sf 38...
Last year, I guessed that our NSDCC sales would drop 20% due to high mortgage rates, and pricing would stay about the same. Rates dropped instead, and both sales and pricing stayed about the same as the previous year. In 2020, I think we will see sales drop 10%, just...
It's December 9th, which means it would be natural for most people to pack it in for the year (especially with a shorter holiday season). But in the last three weeks of 2018, we had 83 new listings! There will be more houses to consider this month, and those sellers...
We've seen that the bottom of the Carlsbad detached-home market has been around $800,000 all year. Can you get into something similar for less? Here's a tour of a 4 br/2.5 ba, 1,997sf twin home in the far-north end of Carlsbad built in 1987 and without any real...
Tim and Allison were nice enough to let me look around their 4 br + den/3.5 ba, 3,480sf home on a 15,087sf lot west of the I-5 freeway on Hymettus priced at $2,645,000:
In three out of the last four years, our highest median sales price was in May - which are the sales that were decided in March and April: I think we can expect a similar fast start to the selling season next year as pent-up demand that went unsatisfied in 2019 rushes...
The Johnson House was built in 1962 through a collaboration of the The Johnson Family, Bob Jones the Architect/Friend, and builder Herb Turner. This home was originally designed to take full advantage of the scenery around the home through the use of floor to ceiling...
Master Architect Lloyd Ruocco and world acclaimed Artist Joyce Cutler-Shaw collaborated with Wimmer & Yamada Landscape Architects to create a spectacular view centric indoor / outdoor masterpiece in 1966... Rarely do you find a home with exceptional character that...
