If you find yourself fearful of the Real Estate market today, then we should chat.  While the Real Estate market is by no means “in recovery”, many people have found our buyers market a great place to be in terms of finding true values.  As home owners ourselves, we know what it would like trying […]

This is a topic that is near and dear to our hearts.  Being recognized as a stand out professional in any occupation is an honor.  Let us also say that being a full time real estate professional is not as easy as ome may think.  So with that said, here is our advice on how […]

While many people tout the purpose of blogging, we wanted to let you know why we have our Real Estate blog.  The reason we blog about Real Estate is to allow people to get to know us, how we approach business and our feelings about what is important.  In our life, Kari and I feel […]

As most of you have heard, home foreclosures are up, sales have been down and Wall Street has been taking a beating as a result.  Today the stock market steadied due to better than expected home sales figures.  While sales of new homes still fell, they only fell by 6/10 of 1 percent nationally.
Here in […]

This is one of the most asked questions in Real Estate today.  So who is to blame?  The mortgage industry for their “loose lending practices”, real estate professionals for “over selling and driving up prices”, the government for “not watching what was happening” or home builders for “creating too much inventory”?  In truth, the list […]

The Real Estate world has been predicting what to do with the Baby Boomer generation once we start to retire?  Well, that time is here and it is now.  Here is how we see the progression given Kari and I are on the younger end of this generation:
1. First is to get kids through high school […]

One of the better kept secrets in real estate investment is Student Housing in college areas.  The great thing about most markets around the US is there is a college, or colleges, that is part of the culture in the city or town.  San Diego is mo stranger to college housing needs.  We have San […]

Buying Real Estate is about having a plan, whether you are a first time home buyer or an experienced home buyer.  The first part of having a plan is knowing how long you plan on staying in the home.  A first time buyer is typically 3 to 5 years and an experienced buyer is 5 […]

The national Real Estate market statistics are derived from crunching the numbers from the top 50 Real Estate markets and assigning weights to market factors.  With that said,  home-buyers may be surprised to find that home prices actually rose in 15 of the 50 markets.  The downturns have been largely confined to specific geographic areas of the country within four […]

National Real Estate statistics show that we may be at the onset of home prices flattening in the midst of one of the biggest home market price decline in US history.  Although inventories are still high, home prices declined only half a percent in June, and only eight-tenths of a percent for the past three […]