Once we raised the list price yesterday, the message spread quickly. I still had a good turnout at my open house - about half of the amount of attendees that I had on Friday - but many came just to ask why the price changed. Agents appreciated the transparency though,...
I don't make it a habit to drive around the state looking for sales - my uncle lived here for 47 years and survived the last couple of years by himself. Every 90-year old needs to have people around! He moved to a senior facility in Marin County to be closer to my mom...
These Palo Alto guys have been making national headlines since they rolled out their reduced-commission program last week. They are offering a $10,000 fee to buyer-agents, instead of a percentage, AND encouraging buyers to come directly to the listing agent to avoid...
The comment section here isn't working - it's been weeks now!! I have decent people helping me so we'll keep trying. In the meantime, check the competition from the big-time corporate owners of real estate and how they go about selling homes:
Agents will give you all sorts of mumbo-jumbo on why you should hire them, with the most favorite being that they are the "Local Expert". Agents were local tour-guides before the internet - back when buyers would roll into town and plunk down their $72,500 for a house...
The blip in active listings over the last week isn't too concerning and could just be from the weather. The count of active listings is a good indicator of the demand though. During the mega-frenzy conditions from late-2020 through early-2022, you can see that the new...
In the beginning, we recognized that there was still some of the original look from 1997 in this home - and we could have spent some real money to bring it current. Instead, we let our price fix it. The other listing on the street was coming back on the market for...
How many times in your life will you get the chance to purchase a newer 3,372sf one-story with full ocean view on a culdesac in a gated community for $2,175,000 that is Carlsbad-adjacent? In a previous video we shopped for slabs - this is the house:
Our Cedarcrest listing hit the open market on January 25th, and we recieved NINE offers! I gave all of them a chance to bid it up, and ten days later, our sellers had their net proceeds in their account! They moved to Portugal, and yesterday they reported that the...
There is no guidance on how to effectively handle a bidding war. I don't see or hear anything from NAR, CAR, brokerage managers, or team leaders on how listing agents should handle a bidding war, other than to put the offers on a spreadsheet and let the seller decide....
