What do you do when you receive a full-price cash offer with a noon deadline on Saturday morning? You take the deal and cancel the open houses. Consider the evidence: I'm watching the lockbox notifications and the agent had been there three times. Twice I spoke on the...
Homes on Carlsbad Blvd. north of Tamarack are at street level and those residents are looking through car windows to see the ocean - and it's a sliver, relatively, compared the view from our listing. Our building is 25 feet above the street, and set back another 20...
How to justify pocket listings, in one paragraph: A broker from The Agency is hoping to mobilize support against the National Association of Realtors’ controversial ban against pocket listings, drafting a new petition to urge the repeal of a policy that many agents...
I have to hand it to Brett and team in their preparation of this 1975-built home in Solana Beach. The flooring was removed downstairs, and they added a heavy epoxy paint to the exposed-concrete, which gave it a trendy-hip look to go with the colorful formica in the...
The Open House Extravaganza is underway!
Our new listing in Del Mar, and great for multi-gen! A rare find of a 5br/4ba, 3,708sf home with two master suites - one on each floor! Fully remodeled with dual-pane windows, dual-zone HVAC, tankless W/H, new paint, hardwood floors, Craftsman kitchen, owned solar...
From the WSJ - thanks Sergio: As a top Hollywood talent agent for over 40 years, Deborah Miller Lakoff represented big names like William Devane, Ned Beatty, Bob Uecker and Julio Iglesias. For proof, one could just look in her garage. “There was a massive collection...
The SP:LP ratio has been very consistent for those selling a home under $2,000,000 - you can expect to get pretty close to your asking price. Above $2,000,000 is a different story. Mortgage rates had averaged 3.99% in 2017. You can see how the lower-end buyers became...
Hat tip to SM for sending this in! The “hideous” couches have to go. And that isn’t the only request Beverly Hills-based realtor Aaron Kirman makes to the owner of an oceanfront Dana Point house on CNBC’s new “Listing Impossible,” which premieres at 7 p.m. Wednesday,...
Let's touch on this topic one more time as a new season opens up. While our 2020 market should be promising, the actual results won't be as obvious. Reasons to be optimistic about this year: Rates are really low, though we expect that now and it won't set off a...
