Encinitas Real Estate and Homes - EncinitasCarlsbad.com

I head up a team of 10 agents, so I get a good idea about what is happening in the buyer's market.  There has been a DEFINITE INCREASE in the buyer activity in the next 30 days.  Many people are looking for a bargain, but others want to take advantage of the new conforming loan limits that are go...

HOME MOVIE (2001) If you have never see the "Home Movie" documentary released in 2001, you should get it from your rental company this week!  It's really quite interesting.  It covers the stories of five people and their homes and how their homes reflect their personalities and quirkiness.  It's ...

The Encinitas and Carlsbad inventory situation appears to be stable.  Though inventory levels are slightly higher than last year, and prices slightly lower than last year, the market is not the kind of unstable situation that you can find in some of San Diego County's inland markets.  Here's the ...

I was chatting via email with Lazarus the other day, and we were talking about the field of view of different lenses.  I finally went by the Calumet store yesterday, and stopped in and asked the rental manager if I could just snap a photo with the widest angle lens he had available (which turned ...

We've posted some examples of our high dynamic range photos (HDR), but I thought I would take the time to illustrate one of the central issues that I've seen in using HDR. Here's an image that I created with PTGUI today, merging 9 images together to create one high dynamic range image.  (The reas...

We create video tours for our listings. Here's our most recent tour of a great beach home across from the bluff on Neptune Avenue in Leucadia. I just got it done today (Feb. 16). The home has great ocean views. AND, if you like little dogs, the Corgi in this video is too cute. He acted almost as ...

This is just a silly little thing for those who might find it funny.... Here's a blast from the dot com past.  Back in 2000, in the go-go days of dot coms (before I got into the go-go days of real estate), I worked for a dot com called Good2CU.com.  I liked the project, a credit union portal.  We...

We recently caught someone on the community planning board trashing one of our open house signs with no valid justification (i.e., the sign was not in the public right of way).  We made a big deal out of it because we were following the rules and don't want any such problems because we are follow...

One of the fun things we do on our web site is plot out the land and lots for sale.  It makes it really easy for those people who are shopping for a piece of land to see what's available and how close it is to the ocean.  Here's the most recent map.The color of the push pin represents the price a...

Our clients ask us what the state of affairs is in any given market, and my preference is to point to the data rather than give a thumb-in-the-air opinion.  So, with that in mind, here's what I found today (2/13).Rentals - The rental market is actually fairly strong, mainly because of low invento...