Over 100 people attended our open houses over the weekend, and the home was well received. It is rare to see an 80-year old bungalow improved this nicely!
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Why You Should List With Jim
Our First Listing of 2025
Check out our new listing! 506 S. Freeman St. 3 br/2 ba, 992sf YB:1944 LP = $1,399,000 Are you looking for an updated beach bungalow that is walking distance to everything downtown Oceanside has to offer? This is it! Hardwood floors, like-new kitchen and baths, new...
January Listings Are A Precursor
Virtually everyone is reluctant to predict the future of the real estate market. Even most realtors will throw their hands up and declare, "Who knows?". But around here, one fact has been clear and it tells us what we need to know about the rest of the year. The...
Price Adjustments? How Much?
Is having more homes for sale a big deal? The local market has survived everything else, though they were all at lower price points. If price adjustments are needed, what can we expect? I've mentioned how my recent listing in La Costa Oaks got caught up in price war....
Golf Deal
Do buyers need to wait until 2025, or are there some deals to be had now? I have some unfinished business left in La Costa that buyers in search of a project should consider. It's a home that needs major updating to become a modern custom golf estate, but we have it...
Price Declines?
Oh geez, did Jim say something about prices going down? Yes, and isn't it inevitable in areas where there is more supply than demand? Sure, we can always reflect on Rancho Santa Fe where having your home languish on the market every year is a rite of passage. Somebody...
Transitioning to Buyer’s Market
If there is a surge of inventory in early 2025, what will happen? Here are the choices: Frenzy - With rates stubbornly high, the best case is a mini-frenzy where buyers engage in bidding wars for only the top-quality listings. Some of the insanity bleeds over to the...
The Inventory Surge of 2025
Kayla is in town so we were trying to do the more-professional looking videos, which for me means doing a more-formal introduction of myself for those new to our Instagram channel. On the same day, Robert Reffkin appeared on CNBC and said that research shows that...
The Higher-Inventory Battle
Here's an example of how additional inventory causes commotion in the marketplace. Over the last couple of years, you could put a home up for sale and not have any competing listings around you - and few, if any, recent closed sales either. Buyers and their agents had...
Carlsbad La Costa Oaks
Here's our new listing in Starboard by Davidson Communities - San Diego's best builder! 7618 Circulo Sequoia, Carlsbad 5 br/3.5 ba, 4,000sf 15,314sf private corner lot LP = $2,500,000 Davidson's Starboard neighborhood is known to be among the finest in Carlsbad, and...
