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Year: 2023
Most and Least Expensive
Here are the 50 Largest U.S. Cities Household Spend, which breaks down comparative household bill costs across the fifty largest cities in the country. If you wanted to save money, where would you move?...
Single Agency Coming Soon
The gradual phasing out of buyer-agents is underway, and it shouldn't be long now. Zillow's new format features the listing agent's phone number under the main photo! The three-headed agent display was removed and now when a reader clicks on the right side for Request...
Terramar $10,750,000 Closed Dec 1st
Shane McGowan, RIP
A good old Irish Christmas song this week, in honor of Shane McGowan - who was born on December 25, 1957! Hat tip Richard! The Pogues were an English or Anglo-Irish Celtic punk band fronted by Shane MacGowan and others, founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as...
Hiring A Realtor
What is the best thing a consumer can do to prepare for the 2024 selling season? Get Good Help! To check an agent's qualifications, go to Zillow and click on the Agent Finder at the top of their page. Zillow wants you to use one of the agents they display prominently,...
Robert Reffkin on 2024
High Earners Leaving California
Another article in the LAT about the out-migration, and the current $68 billion budget deficit. If politicians raise taxes to compensate, could it drive more people away? And cause a surge in inventory? An excerpt: In 2021 and 2022, about 750,000 more people left the...
Paying Over List Price Continues
If there was going to be a time when the local market might soften up a bit, it would be around November/December, wouldn't it? If the majority of the recent sales closed at 10% discounts or more, then it would be nervous time, but most buyers are still paying fairly...
Olivenhain Estate
This is one of the best values we've seen all year if you don't mind having more than two acres. See the whole Bubbleinfo TV collection here: