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A San Diego Realtor's blog that is usually focused on all things related to real estate--and which occasionally veers off the road
RECENT BLOG POSTS
San Diego’s high end coastal North County is surviving the real estate storm fairly well–at least compared to the rest of San Diego County. We’ve had a surge of buyer interest in Rancho Santa Fe real estate lately, and the folks at First American Title were kind enough to share some of their rec...
02/28/2008
Redlining is a term that describes the unethical–if not illegal–practice where lenders “red line” a neighborhood or community, making it very difficult for buyers to purchase in these afflicted areas. I have recently heard from a couple of direct lenders in San Diego,  Countrywide Home Loans and ...
02/19/2008
The San Diego real estate market is abuzz with talk about real estate auctions and the enormous turnouts they are generating. Inventory is being quickly absorbed by competing and hungry investors, who bid against one another hoping to buy a San Diego home below market value. All of this leads us ...
02/19/2008
Eve Sieminski and I spent yesterday afternoon studying a number of various For Sale by Owner (FSBO) sites and researching these Carlsbad listings and Carlsbad real estate through our local SANDICOR MLS.We had initially intended to study all of North San Diego County, but ended up drilling down to...
02/19/2008
The San Diego real estate market has been swirling with dismal reports about short sales, foreclosures and inventory gluts. The markets are particularly bad in San DIego suburbs like Eastlake, Otay Mesa, San Marcos and Oceanside–where so many new subdivisions were built in the last six years. Buy...
02/07/2008
Baby Boomers have never been the silent sort, and more and more we are hearing their wishes in unison. Disclaimer: The San Diego real estate market is not like Las Vegas, or Tucson or Asheville or Biloxi and our home prices, though far more reasonable than a couple of years ago, are still quite h...
02/07/2008
Cleaning the Category House on my blog(s) has been a real chore, and I wrote about the hassle and dangers of duplicate content last night.Now the tagging question:What are the differences between tags and categories? How do they differ in function?Can multiple tags and tagging of blog articles le...
01/17/2008
I write for two separate blogs in addition to Active Rain: San Diego Previews (a real estate blogsite) and Luxury Home Digest (blog). Both are run on the open source WordPress platform with custom tweaking from the gurus at the Real Estate Tomato.I participated in an Advanced SEO class with blogg...
01/16/2008
We have no shortage of buyers in our San Diego real estate market. Most are just sitting on the sidelines waiting for what feels like a market bottom. It is a scenario that is probably duplicated in real estate markets throughout the country. Through a period of trial and error, we have learned ...
01/16/2008
Realtor.com is surely thumping its chest over its domination for market share and eyeballs, but other interesting observations can be gleaned from this recent Hitwise report, which released real estate induustry-wide 2007 rankings of more than 100 sites.I immediately noted that Trulia.com has pas...
01/16/2008
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