The tariff talk is settling down, the stock market looks fully recovered, we got a new pope, and the President is getting a new airplane. Can we get back to selling homes now? Usually we consider a 'healthy' market to have a ratio of 2:1 actives-to-pendings. Above is...
It looks like the tariff distractions might be behind us? The number of pendings increased for the second week in a row, and the number of active listings actually declined! It might just be a break for Mother's Day though, and there should be a steady increase of...
Meredith has been predicting the silver tsunami since 2023, but since it hasn't happened (yet), she is now reversing course and is saying seniors are broke and can't afford to move: Baby boomers are dragging on the housing market because most can't afford to move out...
Buyers aren't crazy about signing a three-month contract just to see homes for sale - and neither are the buyer-agents. Every problem with home sales will get solved by cutting out the buyer-agent, even though it's bad for buyers....
https://youtube.com/shorts/0BIS4cP6vEs?si=B_A_6LiDW6-rCRws The buyers are out there. They're just being coy and playing hard-to-get.
The darker green areas have populations that are growing the most - hopefully it means that people who moved there had to know something! Want to stay in the west? Check out Utah - it's been #1 for the last three years:...
With the unsold listings piling up everywhere, I went to check the stale factor (above) and was surprised to see that the ratio of the active listings on the market for 15+ days was actually lower than it was previously. It must mean that there has been a flurry of...
There is nothing like Oceanside Harbor between Dana Point and Mission Beach!
It's been well-documented here what a lucky guy I am, and here's another. In 2016, Natalie was studying abroad in Florence, and we went to visit. Kayla had done her study abroad in Rome five years earlier, but we didn't visit then. So we started our tour in Rome so...
Of the 3,122 detached-home listings in San Diego County, 672 of them (22%) include the word 'nestled'. It is followed closely by 'dream', which is in 19% of the listings. If you don't want to be replaced by robots, don't be so robotic.
