Let's get started! If defaulters were pressured to pay or sell.....what metro areas would suffer most? Even in the worst cases, any additional inventory from defaulters will be drawn out over time because they don't want to move. It looks like the San Diego-Carlsbad...
Year: 2020
Merry Christmas!
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas!
Del Mar Fixer
This will probably be my last home tour of the year - couldn't think of a better house to end 2020!
Someday
"Someday all our dreams will come to be, some day in a world where men are free, maybe not in time for you and me, but someday at Christmastime...."
Red Hot, How Long?
I didn't see this until today - but the hotness sounds similar throughout SoCal: Katerina Krumwiede wasn’t looking to move. She and her husband, Rob, recently spent “well over” $100,000 on a complete remodel of their Encino house that added a backyard gazebo, custom...
My Top Ten Reasons For Frenzy 2021
After an insanely unpredictable real estate market in 2020, will our strong sellers' market continue in North San Diego County's Coastal region? Probably, but it should be more balanced. Mortgage rates around 3% (and under) will continue through at least the first...
Inventory Watch
The pendings count has been mirroring the actives pretty closely since mid-October, with the best example during election week when they moved about the same amount in opposite directions. With fewer listings and more sales, the failure rate this year has been lower...
Donations Needed
Posted on Facebook by Miranda Klassen - I imagine all hospitals could use a hand: Asking for help to support my husband Bryce and the ICU staff at Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas. They have been exceedingly over capacity for weeks with no sign of slowing. They are...
Hot Pockets
An update from the agent on the new listing (now pending) in La Costa Oaks: 27 showings, 8 offers significantly over asking. It was crazy! So many buyers from the Bay Area! I had seven agents contact me for details about my sale that's pending across the street. ...
Zillow Forecast 2021
Thoughts: I can't remember any prognosticator predicting double-digit appreciation before. There will be areas who will have higher than 10.3% appreciation in 2021. Zillow has guts to put it out there. They could have played it safer. Do they know something? They are...