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Why A House Isn’t Selling
Even though our market has been red hot, less than 70% of the homes listed for sale actually sell. Hat tip to Charles for authoring this list of reasons why: When you first put your house on the market, you might be hopeful for a quick sale—especially if you've put a...
Selling Strategies That Can Backfire
Good tips from realtor.com: When you're selling your home, you might imagine you hold all the cards. And you do—sort of. But it's easy to become overconfident in a seller's market. If you don't do a reality check, pronto, you could end up sabotaging your sale. So...
Baby-Boomer Housing
These responses point to a massive downsizing trend! From realtor.com: LINK It's all about millennials these days. Everything seems to center around these special snowflakes. But what about the original "me" generation? We're talking about baby boomers, of course....
This Week’s Disrupter
Talk about buying the listing! This is the UK version of Opendoor, and they are tempting sellers with a promise of a 97% cash advance on their house. This idea is fantastic, and operators could make a bundle, right up until the market flattens out or declines. Then...
Disclosing a Death
Just so you know....
Price Reductions
It's the time of year when we see some price adjustments by agents who have tried everything else, to no avail. But how much do you need to reduce the price to cause a sale? Ideally, it needs to be enough to cause buyers who have already seen the house to come back -...
Update on Boomer Liquidations
Coming to a neighborhood near you....some day! From cnbc.com: LINK Jeff Swaney is worried about selling his 5,600-square-foot home one day. In his neighborhood south of Atlanta, demand and prices for large ranch houses like his have declined over the last decade, as...
Best Places to Retire
The 2018 rankings of the Best Places to Retire are out! San Diego is ahead of other more-typical retirement towns like Charlotte, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Denver, and the only California city in the Top 50. But there are twenty places ranked above us, so if you're...
Off-Season Softness, Or…..
Remember when the new-home tracts had waiting lists? Earlier this year, we saw a new-home tract in Clairemont with 200 people on their list! But not every tract is hot, and it appears to be a sign of the times.
