It was mentioned that these listing agents might be giving the sellers a holiday break, but most of these were marked pending in the first week or two of December. Hanukkah maybe? I guess it's possible, we will have to see what happens right after the...
Thinking of Selling?
More December Heat
Part Two - A listing that gets marked 'pending' probably doesn't mean much, other than there are buyers and sellers that have found agreeable terms, for now. But two things are somewhat surprising: 1. The time of year for activity to spark up. 2. What you get for...
December Boom Fire
Here's Part One - a video tour of the homes that have gone pending during the holidays. The action has been red-hot lately!
4Q09 Stats
Local Boy wondered how Carlsbad was holding up - here's a snapshot of the fourth quarter detached stats for North SD County Coastal region. The area category called 'High' is RSF, Del Mar, Solana Beach, and La Jolla. The 2008 stats were based on Oct. 1st to Dec. 18th:...
FR Report
December 15, 2009 - ForeclosureRadar.com, the only website that tracks every California foreclosure and provides daily auction updates, issued its monthly California Foreclosure Report for November 2009. Despite apparent headline month-over-month declines in...
Frisbee
Here's a good example of how important it is for sellers to have a top-notch photo presentation of their house for sale. Buyers are looking for any reason NOT to buy. If they aren't in love with the house from the photos, once they drive up and see this, they won't...
Follow-Ups
Let's catch up on some of the properties featured here in the past, leaving out the house numbers to protect the innocent: Anza REO, Vista, 92084 2 br/2 ba + extras, 1,492 sf on tax rolls SP: $470,000 10/04 LP: $132,900 10/09 SP: $163,000 10/09 all-cash 65% below...
Guaranteed-Sale Program
The corporation recently spent under a billion dollars conducting an exhaustive scientific research and quantitative anaylysis project to construct a fool-proof state-of-the-art cutting-edge guaranteed-sale program. This plan is so thorough and exhaustive that...
October Foreclosure Tally
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. foreclosure filings surpassed 300,000 for an eighth straight month as unemployment made it tougher for homeowners to pay their bills, RealtyTrac, Inc. said. A total of 332,292 properties received a default or auction notice or were seized...
Another REO in RSF
The REO hits just keep on coming in Rancho Santa Fe. We saw Lago Lindo list for $1,879,000 and receive eight offers, with bids over $2 million. These days the buyers roam from REO to REO, in search of the right deal, with only glimmers of hope that a regular seller...