Fall Real Estate Season and September Blog Schedule
For many, Labor Day weekend marks the beginning of school, football season, and Fiesta Hermosa. In real estate, it is the unofficial kick-off to the the fall selling season.
Fall Season & New L...
Palos Verdes
Interesting South Bay Home Sales from Last Week
The second half of August can really slug along in the South Bay as agents and clients are wrapping their last summer vacations. Most agents will hold off from listing their new inventory until Labor Day. For this week’s blog, I will be divin...
Lunada Bay Offers High-End Lease Deals
Most of my blogs consist of analyzing sales, appreciation, and under-priced deals. Today, I want to focus on a market that is larger than the for sale market in Los Angeles County: Rentals! Rentals are an extremely important part of the real es...
South Bay Interest Rates Rising – What’s Next?
Today I am going to touch on the topic of interest rates, the Federal Reserve (Fed) balance sheet normalization, and how it is affecting real estate today and in the future.
Below I will share my exploration of charts from the Fed and a brea...
South Bay Happenings Impact the Local Real Estate Market
With the Fourth of July holiday this week, the real estate market has taken a short pause. I wanted to take this time to share a few quick notes on local happenings throughout The Hill and Beach Cities that could impact the surrounding real est...
Are South Bay Income Properties Safer than U.S. Bonds?
Oftentimes you’ll hear people around the South Bay say, “Beach real estate never goes down…it’s the safest investment around.” Is that actually true?
U.S. bonds offered by the U.S. Treasury are more generally considered the safest ...
South Bay & Los Angeles Real Estate Value Areas in 2018
Every year around this time I like to write about undervalued areas in the South Bay. There is no substantial evidence as to why these areas are undervalued. This blog post is just an active real estate agent making a gut call on areas that are...
Palos Verdes Estates – Hot Home Styles
Home Styles
For years, home buyers have been shying away from the once popular architectural favorite: Mediterranean. This home style was all the rage for Baby Boomers in the 90s and early 2000s, and was a dominant style in Palos Verdes Esta...
Property Auction to be Held in Palos Verdes
Rancho Palos Verdes Property Auction
A new probate sale at 5965 Peacock Ridge Road #201 in Rancho Palos Verdes was listed this week asking $395,000 (way below value). The auction will be held on Sunday, May 20th at 10 a.m. with an open house...
Is New York a Leading Indicator for South Bay Real Estate?
Short answer: I am not sure.
New York
A recent report authored by appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. found that Manhattan (NYC) condo and co-op sales declined by 25% from last year’s first quarter. It was the largest drop since the 2009 finan...
South Bay Record Breaking Home Sale…Not Where You Think!
If you read the title and thought, “Well, if the sale was not in Manhattan Beach then it must be the $40,000,000 home on Buggy Whip Drive in Rolling Hills." That is a good guess but nope, not even close! Hermosa Beach? Nope. Redondo Beach? ...