jane's Blog

Is the Gold Rush heading back to California?   Here in San Diego we were the first area to see the housing market slump dramatically, especially in our South Bay, Oceanside and Escondido markets.  And last year was just awful in the real estate industry with the exception of our high end homes al...

Yessir, locally here in San Diego we have our eclectic community of Ocean Beach, and within that community is one of the best places to eat - O'Bistro - located on Voltaire between Cable and Bacon.  It is a casual place, dogs are welcome as they are in most places in Ocean Beach, and the patio du...

Can anyone please explain?  And I doubt anyone can until we have some sort of regulation as to how our offers are presented to lenders on short sales.   With some agents, they are submitting ALL offers then requesting highest and best once approval is received.  Others are submitting the first on...

With the tremendous amount of short sales and foreclosures everywhere, and some agents accepting a multitude of offers, only to counter everyone with "highest and best" I am trying an old concept that will (hopefully) give us a prime position.   It's the 'escalating clause'.  If my buyers can qua...

Working as a buyer's agent mostly, I have great frustration with offers I submit on short sales - or what seems like every offer these days.  WHY?  If we are not the first offer received, we are then a 'back-up', even if our subsequent offer is higher than the first with better terms.  Agents are...

Don't know about you, but the housing market is humming along briskly right now in my neck of the woods.  mostly first-time homebuyers who have diligently saved their money and people who are already successful, further on in life and realising this is it - THE time to buy.   Only today I had a b...

Don't know about you, but the housing market is humming along briskly right now in my neck of the woods.  mostly first-time homebuyers who have diligently saved their money and people who are already successful, further on in life and realising this is it - THE time to buy.   Only today I had a b...

Yessir, locally here in San Diego we have our eclectic community of Ocean Beach, and within that community is one of the best places to eat - O'Bistro - located on Voltaire between Cable and Bacon.  It is a casual place, dogs are welcome as they are in most places in Ocean Beach, and the patio du...

  The best analogy I can give to buyers and sellers is our recent episode where gas pricing rose daily, going through the roof, literally, and pricing out at over $4.50 a gallon, only to see  these prices rapidly decline just as fast down to what we would have considered NORMAL before they began ...

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