As people hunker down in quarantine throughout the state, many must be asking themselves if they are in the right house for them - and if it isn't, then where to move. Thankfully, most of the densely-populated parts of coastal California are more expensive than in San...
Market Conditions
Realtor.com COVID-19 Report
Of all the traditional real estate economists, Lawrence Yun probably gets the most press coverage - but Danielle has been around too. She was at NAR for nine years, then went to realtor.com where she's been for the last three years:...
Buyers’ Market
Tips for buyers and sellers for successfully navigating a buyers’ market.
Carmel Valley Report
Our listing in Carmel Valley is still getting hundreds of views - the chart above are two-day totals. I love when a new listing hits the market nearby, because it gives buyers some perspective, and in this case we are almost identical in cost per square foot ($507 vs...
When Will the Market Comeback?
Everything seems like "If" these days, but if we had a market comeback, the dates of a modified and compressed selling season would be fairly predictable, looking at it logically. The actual results will be a matter of compression and intensity. If there isn't much of...
Questions About Today’s Market
Our daughter Natalie is part of our team now as marketing director (in between her dance gigs). We got started yesterday with a few short answers (less than a minute each) to three basic questions about today's market that she will be using individually on social...
San Diego Report on Housing
Demand for San Diego County homes has waned in recent weeks as the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic ripples through the real estate industry. The number of pending sales in the county has dropped by 27 percent in two weeks, said data from Reports on Housing...
Compass California Projections
An interesting conversation yesterday with the guy who made one of the biggest deals in the history of residential brokerages when he sold his company with 1,700+ agents to Compass in 2018. His team developed the graph above on March 31st, and it looks like they are...
Opinions on San Diego’s Median SP
Like the San Diego Case-Shiller Index, the median sales price has been sputtering lately (above). Homeowners didn't have to make their mortgage payments before the coronavirus, and now they really don't have to make them, so analysts who point to foreclosures are...
Media Scare Tactics
Prices dropping in the 'low single digits' doesn't sound like a frozen or desperate market. Their first story is about a guy who is looking at homes in Florida priced at $15 million? That's relevant to the national housing market?...