This is shaping up to be the craziest Sunday of the year!
Saturday Open House Report
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Hilltop Leucadia
The multi-gen buyers would love a house like this!
Lowball Season
Let's face it, at least 90% of the current listings aren't coming off their price much. To get a deal, you have to make offers! Here are some good tips: https://www.realestateskills.com/blog/lowball-offers#offer
Olivenhain $3,750,000
The tiki destination!
Lagoon Front
We taped this during the frenzy, and I conveniently forgot about it. It may have been due to price? It closed in April for 8% under list, which made it the most-expensive non-oceanfront sale ever in Carlsbad:
Biological Discoloration
We were discussing the "mold" found by a home inspector, who wasn't qualified to comment on the subject - though that didn't stop him from trying to scare the daylights out of the buyer just so he could CYA. I suggested that it was the garden-variety mildew that could...
Just Sold in Olivenhain
I am running short on videos - there are fewer homes for sale, and the list of homes worthy of a video is even shorter. We saw this one a couple of months ago, and it just closed on September 16th for $3,600,000, which was $100,000 over list. Knowing that, the video...
Open House Report 1
There was at least 100 open-house attendees on Saturday, all of which were 60+ years old. The one-story homes are their own market, and likely to perform much better than the two-story segment which has at least 3x as many built, historically.
Aviara One-Story Video Tour
There is a mystery foot in the beginning of the interior tour in this video, and it would be a good time to acknowledge the difference made by my wife Donna. We knew on Saturday that our client's purchase offer was accepted, contingent upon this house selling. Between...
$15,000,000 Extravaganza
One of my favorite Compass agents went all out today to promote her new $15,000,000 listing - the MLS remarks: If these walls could talk, they would speak of the fact that this estate was built by a US ambassador to Italy as a summer home for he and his family with...
