THIS TIME LAST YEAR: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS YEAR: We had 155 new listings and 105 new pendings in the last six weeks. There has been ONE detached-home listing between La Jolla and Carlsbad since July 1st. 54% of the detached-homes for...
If everyone is relying on the zestimates....are they any good? It's a scary thought that we've become dependant upon an algorithmic computation of home values run by a third party for profit. Good thing they got out of the home-buying business! The zestimates have...
We played in the charity whiffleball tournament to benefit Camp Kesem, a week-long camp for kids who have parents who suffering from cancer. We raised enough money to send another TEN kids to camp! We got smoked 13-2 in our game though. Here is the story on Camp...
It would be natural to assume that home buyers are much more concerned about paying the right price today. Certainly, they will be perusing the recent sales very carefully, won't they? I'm not so sure. Putting a sharp price on a home stopped being a priority about 25...
There's a big difference between low offers, and no offers. If you are getting low offers, you probably didn't fix it up enough. No problem, you figured you'd have to sell it for less, didn't you? Expect that buyers will want a discount that will be 2x the actual cost...
The reason for breaking down the active and pending listings by zip code is to give the readers a closer look at their neighborhood stats. Typically, we've considered any market to be healthy that has a 2:1 ratio between active and pending listings. SW Carlsbad,...
We lost another one of the most talented this week, Stuart Margolin. He was better known as an actor (he won two Emmys) and director, but few ever heard what a great songwriter/musician he was - except those of us who knew that he and Arizona's favorite son, Jerry...
Shadash said, "Right now the only thing propping up prices is limited supply." Indeed, and it's how the pricing got here in the first place. The demand for homes in the San Diego coastal regions has been higher then the supply for decades now, and it's probably not...
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WASHINGTON (December 13, 2022) – Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist and senior vice president of research, forecasts that 4.78 million existing homes will be sold, prices will remain stable, and Atlanta will be the top real estate market to watch in 2023 and beyond....
