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Mark Stone, of our Sterling/Stone,REALTORS® real estate company, sent me some great advice about being safe this Christmas. It’s such good advice that I thought I’d pass it on so you can be safe too! Holiday Lights Electric holiday lights and displays sparkle and wow children and adults alike. But because too many homeowners don’t [...]
Carlsbad Homes & Divorce!
My friend, Randy Hopwood, is a long-experienced family law attorney and mediator here in Carlsbad. He spent many years practicing law in Palo Alto before moving down to beautiful Carlsbad-by-the-sea. We often talk about the law as it impacts real estate and the family. I gave up handling family law matters after a view years [...]
Don’t Mess With Your HOA
The Stantons decided that they wanted new casement windows on the front of their home in a condo development controlled by declaration of covenants and conditions and restrictions (CC&RS). Those are often known as your Homeowner Association (HOA) documents, or “docs.” You know, that packet of 50-or so pages you receive just before you close [...]
Homes Sales Don’t “Plummet” in Carlsbad
If today you received the new format San Diego Union-Tribune, now renamed, it appears, “San Diego U-T,” then in Section C, the business section, you would have seen the headline “County Home Sales Plummet 21 Percent In July.” The article goes on to point out that’s the percentage drop from sales in June 2010. NOT [...]
Looking Back At Carlsbad Year-End Prices
Click on this Carlsbad Link for a larger image of the chart. Every once in a while, I like to take a look back at where we were at the beginning of the year in Carlsbad. It puts things in perspective for what’s happening now. Keep coming back here, and you’ll see more data about [...]
Where Do You Live?
I was listening to A Way With Words, on NPR, on my way home through Carlsbad, when I head a discussion of how apartment complexes are sometime named with no relationship to their actual location. One of the examples used was the Bayshore Apartments, somewhere in Indiana with no bay in sight! It occurred to [...]
California Homebuyer Credits Of $200 Million Approved
The President of the California Association of REALTORS(r) sent out the following announcement after the Governor signed AB 183: “AB 183 will provide $200 million for home buyer tax credits, allocating $100 million for qualified first-time home buyers of existing homes and $100 million for purchasers of new, or previously unoccupied, homes. The eligible taxpayer [...]
One Up and Three Down
Comparing December ’08 to ’09 single family detached median home prices in the four Carlsbad zip codes reminds one that you shouldn’t believe what you read in the newspaper…or, these days, on the Internet. The San Diego Union-Tribune on January 20 announced that San Diego County led Southern California in home price improvements in December [...]
Carlsbad December Sales 38.78% Higher than 2008
Carlsbad total single family detached (SFD) sales in 2009 increased by 9.22% over 2008, totaling 782 in 2009 and 716 in 2008, an increase of 66 total sales. As you can see from the chart below (click here to get a more readable version), the real increase started in May, reached a peak in August, [...]
Carlsbad Bucks the Case-Shiller Trend
The New York Times reported today that Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home price index for October rose 0.4 percent from September on a seasonably adjusted basis in the 20 metropolitan areas it covers. The article also reported that the index is down 7.3 percent from October a year ago. As I’ve said in the past, and [...]
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