South Bay Real Estate: 2024 Fearless Predictions
Happy New Year! It is officially the first blog post of 2024.
For me, I love a good new year’s resolution. A fresh start is a great personal way to fire up new, productive habits.
With that sa...
Palos Verdes
South Bay Home Listings See Big Price Swings
Before next week’s blog where I will post the latest Q3 South Bay home numbers, I am going to highlight rather large price swings in the local marketplace.
I’ll share three examples throughout the South Bay that are actively listed right...
New Listings Ask Record Prices in Palos Verdes & Manhattan Beach
Each week, I normally like to write about cold hard numbers or analyze recent comparable sales.
Numbers do not lie and comps formulate home values. Plain and simple.
That said, for this post, I am going to highlight a few brand new listin...
South Bay Homes For Sale: August 2023 Inventory Check-in
The number of homes for sale (or “inventory”) as real estate professionals call it, has been the topic du jour over the past few months.
Thanks to golden handcuffs of low interest rates held by current property owners, too few housing un...
California Housing Affordability in Q2 at Lowest Level Since 2007 Bubble
Every quarter I eagerly await the ever-important California Housing Affordability Index number released from C.A.R. (California Association of Realtors).
If you are a real estate numbers nerd like me, then I hope you are as excited to study ...
South Bay Home Market Update & Facts
There are a lot of moving parts to the home market nationally, and here locally in the South Bay.
If you are not full-time in real estate, it can be tough to keep up with everything. This week, I am going to share some updates to wrap-up Jul...
Rolling Hills Estates Landslide & Guide to Homeowners Insurance
The South Bay real estate market made national news due to the landslide that occurred on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Rolling Hills Estates. There were close to a dozen homes red-tagged off Peartree Lane that slid into the adjacent canyon. Ou...
South Bay Real Estate Second Quarter Numbers
Summer is finally here! It has been a cold, wet and gloomy spring, but the post July 4th thaw is here. With the start of July and summer, it also means the end of the second quarter data!
The spring selling season is always important to our ...
South Bay Home Sales with that “Je Ne Sais Quoi”
The of the silliest decision I made in my early school years was to study the French language in high school over the practicality of learning Spanish as resident in southern California.
The usefulness of Spanish in life and my career cannot...
Strong Redondo Beach Prices & Top Palos Verdes Value Pocket
Historically low inventory has created more areas of strength than weakness throughout our local South Bay home markets. And if you know where to look, you can find value pockets. On this week's blog I am going to cover a strong housing pocke...
Prime South Bay Home Markets Rise while Pandemic Markets Fall
On today's blog I will be focusing on a trend I continue to see in our South Bay markets.
I forecasted this trend in earlier blogs and the results we are seeing are that “far away markets” that benefited greatly from the pandemic r...