*not done yet! In spite of the most controversial election in the history of America - one that could have been much more distracting - the NSDCC sales in the second half of 2024 were phenomenal. The number of second-half sales rose 13% year-over-year, and the median...
Jim the Realtor
Golf Deal
Do buyers need to wait until 2025, or are there some deals to be had now? I have some unfinished business left in La Costa that buyers in search of a project should consider. It's a home that needs major updating to become a modern custom golf estate, but we have it...
Price Declines?
Oh geez, did Jim say something about prices going down? Yes, and isn't it inevitable in areas where there is more supply than demand? Sure, we can always reflect on Rancho Santa Fe where having your home languish on the market every year is a rite of passage. Somebody...
Merry Christmas!
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Transitioning to Buyer’s Market
If there is a surge of inventory in early 2025, what will happen? Here are the choices: Frenzy - With rates stubbornly high, the best case is a mini-frenzy where buyers engage in bidding wars for only the top-quality listings. Some of the insanity bleeds over to the...
Inventory Watch
Last week there were 386 NSDCC active listings, and today there are 343 - a difference of 57. Impressively, there were 25 listings that were marked as 'pending' in the last week! But it also means that a load of the unsuccessful sellers of 2024 will be back early next...
The Inventory Surge of 2025
Kayla is in town so we were trying to do the more-professional looking videos, which for me means doing a more-formal introduction of myself for those new to our Instagram channel. On the same day, Robert Reffkin appeared on CNBC and said that research shows that...
Charming Small Towns
A lot of towns I've never heard of here - fifty good ones though: https://www.hgtv.com/lifestyle/travel/50-of-the-most-charming-small-towns-in-america-pictures
Graph-O-Rama
Manny’s House
I may have featured this one before but this has several photos of his house on the shores of Coronado looking across the water at downtown San Diego: https://homesofcelebs.com/san-diego-padres-star-manny-machados-10-million-coronado-mansion/