You may recall this home I wrote about in August. According to Zillow.com it was sold just before Xmas 2005 for $675,000. Eight months later in August 2006, the home was bought for $839,000. Now in 2007, its current owners, who have owned it for a year are trying to sell, at first for $879,000 [...]
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If you saw my story today and George Avalos’ on Thursday, then you may have an inkling where I’m going with this. So far, they are looking at 2009 for the bloodletting to stop. That means if you aren’t willing to price your house to compete with lower-cost foreclosures, then take it off the market [...]
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My story today about the Polk house for sale, highlighted a segment of real estate few people talk about. Yet it’s one many people deal with on a regular basis. Most deaths that occur in the house are natural deaths of people who may have lived there for decades before finally dying there. With more [...]
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Architectural Digest, Dwell, Cottage Living, Country Living, and anything with Martha Stewart, told us it was possible and adjustable-rate mortgages made it so. It persuaded people living in perfectly affordable houses to “move up,” as real estate agents say to the next tier of house. It made empty-nesters sell off their home, cash in their [...]
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Open houses are now dates. It’s the moment to impress a buyer, to make him/her fall in love with your home and be willing to commit to a 30-year mortgage. (Yes, there are those who only want a five to seven year commitment, but you want better for your home.) Ideally the house should be [...]
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If you have every looked over $3 million estates on Redfin, drooled over $200,000 remodels on HGTV or picked up Victorian Homes, you are a consumer of the shelter porn industry. Creating carnal desire for real estate is part of what drove the housing boom in California. A realistic $450,000 two-bedroom bungalow in Concord? Or [...]
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