Home sellers have a lot to worry about: Will anyone want to buy their property for its full asking price? How long will it take to find a buyer? Is it really worth the expense and trouble of staging a home to boost its desirability with buyers? "Heck yes" is the...
The percentages are quite a bit higher this year. The title of the graph could be 'Sellers Who Are Having No Showings' because most are (overly) optimistic this early in the selling season and hold tight on price until later. Something must be rattling them - like no...
Let's examine what happens when a hot new listing gets taken by one of the big real estate teams in 2019. What qualifies as a hot listing? I think we can say that 70% to 80% of listings are priced at full retail or higher, so the rest are either priced attractively or...
We have an open house report in here too, but this is such a specialty property we need to review the relevant sales nearby to make sense of it all:
Our listing on Clearview is a photographer's dream with such a wide and unobstructed expanse - white-water surf, whales and dolphins, Navy maneuvers, and the eventual tearing down of the smokestack (shortly). I won't do it justice, but I'll post a few shots as we go....
One of the problems with Coming Soon is the vague timing. It's is more like Coming Soon/Some Day/Maybe/Who Knows. It's frustrating for buyers because they've been trained to want to see the hot new listings immediately before somebody else beats them to it....
Making those realtor videos is harder than it looks:
Home sellers who have been on the market for 30 or more days and are tired of not selling may eventually consider a price reduction - but by how much? There are a number of reasons why a home isn't selling. Thankfully, you don't have to be an expert on why - because...
This is what happens when you have a bunch of independent contractors and no governing body or leader. When the city threatened to do something, realtors didn't take it seriously and provided no alternatives, so the city stuck it to us. In most places around...
Welcome to the Bridge House! Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, this modern craftsman is one of the most architecturally-significant homes in Carlsbad. A wonderfully artistic design and brilliant use of space - this one-of-a-kind home is defined by its...
