Though last year had many challenges and was the worst year ever for many, it turned out to be a phenomenal year for us, business-wise. We are very grateful for our clients' faith and confidence - many of whom found us here at the blog! The Klinge Realty Group had a...
I save photos during the year to feature here at the end, and I'm sure the Carlsbad Historical Society was a likely source for some of these - thank you S. Gutierrez! https://www.carlsbadhistoricalsociety.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I was sitting...
Bubbleinfo.com made the list of best real estate blogs in the country, as determined by Hooquest.com: https://hooquest.com/real-estate-blogs/ Thanks Brian for including us! He is right - I don't give much thought to SEO, which is probably why we had the lowest number...
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas!
Friday Wrap-Up! Thursday Showings: 5 Friday Showings: 11 (+one no-show) Total Showings: 16 in first 1.5 days on market. Two offers. After the first offer, I suggested to the sellers that we raise the list price which I don't remember ever doing before - and remember...
There was additional distribution of my moving survey after the previous report last week. Of the 2,872 visitors who have looked at the survey, 130 (or about 5%), at least answered a question, which is typical. Here are the final results: Q1. I liked that 28% of the...
Bubbleinfo.com has been in existence for 15 years! The peak audience here was at the bottom of the market (~11k), but having 5.6k users over the last 28 days is fantastic - thanks for being here! Over the last 15 years: Total number of Blog Posts: 9,820 (plus a few...
We are hitting peak performance when the median sales price is going up around 2% per month. With the wicked combination of low inventory and rates, it could continue - and after a year we could be up +24%! It reminds me of my first blog post from 2005, which was the...
Adding a loft/bedroom over a tall ceiling isn't a big deal - it's nothing money won't fix! This was the day I got into Bloomberg Businessweek: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-04/the-hunter-s-dot-thompson-of-real-estate-chronicles-the-bust-and-boom...
This is my eight minutes of TV fame - I was saying back then that virtual tours were inadequate:
