Drew Kondo's (mountaindrew) Blog

We’ve seen some more activity in the South Lake Tahoe foreclosure market. Ten foreclosure properties went into escrow here within the last 13 days! There are 3 new foreclosure listings. The most interesting of these is at 2188 Pinewood Drive. It’s a huge 2,915 square foot home that was built in 2...

There’s been a bit of a buzz in the South Lake Tahoe real estate community. Have we hit the bottom of the market? Possibly. Check out the median sale prices over the last seven months. It looks like we hit bottom in June and have been heading up in the following months. Additionally, the median l...

As a South Tahoe Realtor, I frequently surf the web for information. Given that you’re currently reading this article, I assume you also want to acquire real estate information via the internet. Thus, I’ve looked through my web browser’s bookmarks and have pulled websites I figured would be most ...

The following was posted as a comment to my original Tranquility estate post. I found it so interesting that I'm creating a separate posting for it. Thanks to Don for the following write up:   I was a helper for the granite company that worked there. I thought I'd add a couple of other cool thing...

There’s been lots and lots of activity in the foreclosure market over the last two weeks! Three homes from the last list went into escrow. There are 7 additions to the list so that we now have 22 foreclosures. Probably the most interesting of these additions is 1731 Chippewa St. It is surrounded ...

As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, there’s been a theory proposed by a few South Lake Tahoe real estate agents, myself included, that home prices haven’t dropped as much as the statistics show. Perhaps there’s been more activity in the lower price bands. After all, it’s been much tougher to ...

South Lake Tahoe real estate saw a lot of activity in the higher price bands during August. This pushed the median sales price for single family residences to $443,750 for the month and $399,000 for the last 90 days. We are still seeing a market decline, however. In the last two weeks there have ...

Address Bed/Bath/ Gar Square Feet Days on Market Price 2587 Kubel Ave. 2/1.75/0 1003 80 $224,900 2734 Knox Ave. 2/1/0 1042 74 $250,000 3408 Janet Dr.* 2/1/1 1056 78 $254,900 2537 Kubel Ave. 2/1/1 864 22 $254,900 1414 N. Upper Truckee Rd. 3/1/0 1040 31 $279,900 3159 Pioneer Trl. 3/2/2 1110 21 $29...

In the latest news, last Thursday the 86-foot yacht that had been sitting in the Tahoe Keys Marina was auctioned off. This article says that the former owner used it as a summer and weekend home. That's interesting because I thought using boats as overnight dwellings on Lake Tahoe wasn't allowed....

Being new to real estate video, I was surprised this morning to find an e-mail in my inbox from a video company recruiter. She informed me that she had seen a video of mine on the WellcomeMat.com Top 5. I had no idea what that was. However, after doing some searching, I found that WellcomeMat.com...