Month: February 2023
Ten Best Markets For Buyers, 2023
According to the Knock Buyer Seller Market Index report, continuing shifts in the U.S. housing market will increase the number of buyers’ markets from 13 to 34 by the end of 2023. It’s still early days in 2023, and going by the latest data from the Knock Buyer-Seller...
Judge Stops Junipers
Golf-course redevelopment is a terrific solution to providing new housing in the middle of town. They will work out the kinks like building enough roads. A judge’s ruling halted construction this week of the 536-unit Junipers development in Rancho Peñasquitos — and...
Wide Variety of Frenzy
Your Listing Agent Matters
There isn't one standard way to sell a house - every agent does it differently, mostly based on their skill set and ambition in life. My new listing in Spinnaker Hill is a good example! It's a tract neighborhood of one-story houses from the 1970s, and most of them...
Bubbleinfo Subscribers
Thank you everyone who signed up to receive an email alert when a new bubbleinfo post happens. I think we have it working now - this is a test! For those who haven't signed up but would want each blog post emailed to you......please register your email address in the...
Will There Be Others?
Realtors are known to comfort buyers who have lost a bidding war by saying, "There will be others". But will there be? Especially for those at the entry level of every market....where the action is the hottest. Above are the NINE houses that sold under a million...
MLS Shenanigans
We've covered the ways that buyers and buyer-agents are getting battered by listing agents. Making homes tough to show, no transparency about offers and bidding-war process (if any), below-market commissions, sandbagging listings in-house for days or weeks before...
98 Years Young
Another reason to move when you're young and have email!
New-Listing Update
The action on the new listing has been good so far. The hot listings usually have a views-to-saves ratio of 10:1, and mine is 29:1 above. Even though the house has a fantastic view, buyers don't want a project, and it emphasizes how important staging is today. Because...
