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. We've considered a 2:1 ratio of actives-to-pendings to be a healthy market. Most areas today have the same or better stats as...
Yesterday was the Compass 2Q earnings call (transcript here) and as usual, the headlines focused on the net loss of $101.2 million - more than half of which was stock-based compensation for agents. Compass has been very generous in their support of agents nationwide,...
It's probably true that seniors are leading healthier, longer lives and will prefer to age-in-place - which will keep a limit on the number of homes for sale and temper any downdraft in pricing. What is worse is that the resulting back-up will cause others to stay in...
There was a nice bump of 17 additional pendings in the past week, from 151 to 168. The biggest increase was in the $4,000,000+ category, which grew from 24 to 32 pendings! There are two pendings priced at $10,000,000+, and 51 active listings! It doesn't look like...
I'll find someone to buy my $2,295,000 listing in La Costa Oaks, and it could be the last LCO listing of the year. It will mean that LCO sellers will be expecting at least $2-something in the 2023 selling season, which won't feel like prices dropped much while buyers...
Here is a wider look at the fire map for Encinitas/Carlsbad. The blue dot is the location of my listing in La Costa Oaks; a neighborhood of 820 homes built in 2005-2013 (long after the Harmony Fire of 1996). The newer homes were built on the outskirts of town, so if...
For home buyers, it's hard to tell if you are on red alert hunting for houses, or sitting on the sidelines because it feels the same. Either way, there aren't many homes to consider - you can go weeks without seeing anything worth a look - so it’s hard to keep your...
What if you convert a vacation home to your primary residence, live there for at least two years and then sell it? Can you qualify for the full $250,000/$500,000 capital gains tax exclusion? No. If you sell a main home that you previously used as a vacation home, some...
With the number of sales taking a dive for the next few months - which could turn out to be a few years - we really don't need as many realtors. Older agents who have been looking for a reason to retire sure have one now, especially if they believe all the...
One of the biggest shows of the year rolls into town on Tuesday, and many of us are still scratching our heads about who should headline. I paid to see the Psychedelic Furs play the OAT at SDSU back in the 1980s and always thought they were a fine punk band of the...
