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...
Just so you know....
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 -...
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...
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...
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.
It might get so bad that we see an occasional flurry of supply! H/T daytrip: More than half of California voters say the state’s housing affordability crisis is so bad that they’ve considered moving, and 60 percent of the electorate supports rent control, according...
Examples of people who moved away, with good and bad results: Raya and Michael DeMarquez both grew up in San Jose, got married here, raised their kids here, bought a house here more than 20 years ago and felt settled in the Bay Area life — for life. Then they lost...
These days it seems like everybody wants a tiny house. But what if your home isn’t adorably tiny? What if it’s just sadly small? Don’t worry—it’s not your square footage that matters most; it's how you present it. Even if you're tight on space, you can fool buyers...
A key point here is that the local neighborhood experts gave them no chance of selling for the price they wanted, even after making improvements. It sold for full price, on the first day: Many thanks to our clients for doing this!
