While we're talking about the median sales price of detached-homes in San Diego County, let's review the last ten years. There usually is some dropoff towards the end of the year: The last frenzy in 2013 saw the median sales price increase 26% between January and...
Thinking of Selling?
Why Sell Your Home Now
School is back in session and the holidays are right around the corner - it's the time of year that potential home sellers start looking forward to the next selling season, instead of moving in September/October. Are you thinking of waiting until 2022? Here are my...
Ten Staging Tips
These are probably the ten best staging tips: https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/home-staging-what-to-avoid/
Home Seller Survey
An excerpt from Zillow's seller survey: With the rollout of vaccines against COVID-19, 70% of homeowners in a recent Zillow survey say they would feel mostly or completely comfortable moving to a new home when vaccines are widely distributed — and 78% of homeowners...
Solutions for Potential Sellers
The real estate market is red-hot, prices are higher than ever and buyers are begging for inventory! Many homeowners want to take advantage of this opportunity but are worried where they'll go next. It's a tough market to be a buyer, but this shouldn't discourage you...
Zillow Buying Houses For Zestimate Value
There are a few Zillow issues to unpack here, so let's start with them saying they are willing to buy your house for the amount of the zestimate - which is fine, if you don't care about cashing in on the actual value. In their press release, the boss claims that the...
Sprucing Up to Sell
Homeowners fixing up their homes to list this spring will have to decide where to put their time and money to get the most bang for their buck. Zillow has been there, and the practical tips and tricks their experts have learned after selling 10,000 homes could help...
How Much Over List?
We've had 208 closed SFR sales between La Jolla and Carlsbad this year. How crazy is it? Eighty homes sold over the list price, which is 38% of the total number of sales. Of those, most were just $10,000 to $50,000 over list, but there were some big bombers: Most %...
2021 Is Off and Running
You won't see the signs of the frenzy everywhere, and probably no signs in the $2,000,000+ market. But anywhere you have one-story houses on culdesacs for under $1,000,000 should be cooking:
‘End of Forbearance To Be A Non-Event’
Health, unemployment, stairs, taxes, finances, politics.......selling your home is becoming the answer for everything! More than 2.5 million American homeowners have stopped paying their mortgages, taking advantage of penalty-free forbearance periods offered by...