The Santa Monica Housing Market & Real Estate Trends
Here's the latest information on the Santa Monica housing market, real estate trends, and schools from Realtor.com. Click on the charts to interact with them - they are updated in real-time, so you'll always see the most up-to-date information. And if you have any...
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Hindsight & Expected Trends in Real Estate
At the recent LeadingRE Annual Conference, Leslie Appleton Young, Chief Economist at the California Association of Realtors, shared the following insights. This is the conference that just keeps on giving! GDP increase in the past ten years has averaged about 3%. US...
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In Case You Missed It: The New Tax Laws
Back in January I posted about the new tax laws for 2018, and cleverly disguised the post with a GIF of me jumping as the lead image, for those of you who might be hesitant to read about taxes. 🙂 However, I thought the chart deserved a leading image of its own (and...
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Palm Springs or Rancho Mirage? (Buying in Palm Springs, Part 2)
As you know from my last post, I spent last week in Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage looking at homes for two clients (one client in the $450k to $600k range, and the other in the $1M to $2M range). But you might be asking yourself, where should I be looking to...
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Palm Springs is on Fire! (Buying in Palm Springs, Part 1)
I spent last week in Palm Springs (the south end) and Rancho Mirage looking at homes for two clients: one client in the $450k to $600k range, and the other in the $1M to $2M range. My remarks focus primarily on south Palm Springs (the area south of Downtown Palm...
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Buying a house in the desert? Here’s what to expect
From CurbedLA Much like the rest of the nation, the communities of the Southern California desert saw home values plummet in the wake of the 2008 recession. But while sale prices in Los Angeles County have since returned to their pre-recession peaks, that hasn’t...
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