The experts say that the majority of homeowners are locked into their homes by their low mortgage rate, and if/when today's high rates come down, then the inventory of homes for sale will bounce back. Boy, are they going to be disappointed. For the last 10-12 years,...
Month: June 2023
Inventory Watch
Yoohoo - home sellers? You may want to adjust your price expectations! What does the practically-vertical trend in active listings mean? It means home buyers are getting pickier. They are emboldened when they pass on a house, and then see everyone else passed on it...
Cardiff Coastal Retreat
We get to see so many unique properties at the coast - I hope I appreciate all of them fully. I'll never forget this one:
Affordable Beach Towns
From realtor.com: To find the most affordable beach towns for homebuyers in 2023, we started by using a federal listing of beaches and their locations. We aggregated Realtor.com listing data for every home put on the market in the past year located within a one-mile...
Why Paint Works
A home should be a visual expression of the person who lives there, right? While this may be true most of the time, the advice could change when it comes to selling your house. According to a new study by Zillow, certain paint colors can make your house sell for...
San Diego Is Still #1
San Diego is the #1 area that homeowners don't want to leave! Don't you get the feeling that we are going to out-perform every other real estate market in America for a long time to come? Today we have 2,293 active listings of attached and detached homes in the county...
$5,485,000
Hat tip to listing agent Ben who is always gracious about me doing videos of his properties for sale! This is a custom home built for an Ecke family member as part of the deal when they sold part of their farm, which was then developed into the Encinitas Ranch golf...
Fed Chair Powell and Real Estate
Powell's goal was to crush the real estate market..... In June 2022, Powell told reporters that spiked mortgage rates would help to "reset" the U.S. housing market, and that "we need to get back to a place where supply and demand are back together and where inflation...
SW Carlsbad Touch of Frenzy
A nice combo pack here with two bedroom suites downstairs and private pool. It's a little light on the premium upgrades but it had enough dazzle to attract multiple bidders. This was a standard tract house when sold new for $422,500 in 2000:
The Pretenders
It's amazing how she endured two of these guys overdosing and 44 years of rock and roll and still be on the road doing it as good as ever. Here's how it all started - she quit smoking at age 60!