The highest-priced residential listing in San Diego County is a piece of land in Del Mar that is listed for $76,000,000. The property has phenomenal ocean views but no home. It is about 5.5 acres. The listing has been on the Sandicor MLS for more than 891 days without a price reduction. The secon
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01/21/2010
My goal with this blog is to make it a real resource for San Diego home buyers. My hope is that the content here is helpful in many ways to anyone who is buying a home in the San Diego area. I am trying to put myself in my clients' shoes and answer all their (and your) questions about the buying
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01/21/2010
I came across this video on one of my colleagues' (Ben Clark of Salt Lake City, UT) websites today. The video features an interview on CNN/fn (now CNN Money) with Stephen Israel, the president of an exclusive buyer agency in the Washington, D.C. area. I have never met Steve, but I learned today t
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01/20/2010
Have San Diego home values reached the bottom? If I knew the answer to that question, I would be a rich, rich man. The truth is that no one will know until after it's happened. Roger Showley, a San Diego Union Tribune staff writer wrote an article in today's paper entitled, "County Median Housing
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01/19/2010
If you are planning to buy a home in the San Diego area in the next couple months, there's a good chance that you will come across short sale and foreclosure (bank-owned) listings. While it's important that you are educated about how these types of listings differ from traditional listings, it's
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01/19/2010
First of all, I must admit that I don't watch a lot of TV (If I do, I mostly watch sports - Go Chargers!), and I really don't watch much HGTV. My wife is more of an HGTV type of person (she's into interior decorating). The few times that I have watched real estate shows on TV (such as HGTV's Prop
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01/16/2010
I know, I know! When you finally decide that you want to buy a home, the first thing you want to do is... GO SEE HOMES! Hold on for a second. There are some things we need to talk about before we jump in the car and drive around all afternoon (and you will thank me later for sitting you down and
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01/15/2010
Jon Ringger of Riggalicious Design recently designed some new business cards for Globella Buyers Realty (he also designed our logo when we founded Globella). Jon is a great guy, a creative designer, and the price was right! Here's how the front looks: Here's how the back looks:
01/15/2010
Before reading this post, be sure to read the first post I wrote about the "Disclosure Regarding Real Estate Agency Relationship" Form - click here. The "Disclosure Regarding Real Estate Agency Relationship" Form (also called the "DA Form") is a two-page form that California has designed to edu
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01/14/2010
