Home Staging: Why Every Home For Sale Needs To Be Staged Home staging will help your home sell quicker and for a higher price. Creating a neutral setting so that Buyers can see themselves in the home is essential. When you are thinking about selling your home, pricing the home based on the current market sales can help the home … Continue reading →
Announcing Client Connect Portal – Finding the right real estate for you! I am now offering my clients the opportunity to engage in their own real estate listings portal through Client Connect. Client Connect offers a website for my clients to interact with the real estate listings from the “Saved Search” setup that I create for each client. This password … Continue reading →
Finding Your Why Part 2 – Good Marketing vs. Bad Marketing- It’s all about marketing. Marketing your services, marketing your products, marketing yourself, marketing your home (if you are a seller) and marketing homes to potential buyers (if you are a buyer), no matter what you do as a human being. Everyone, mostly unconsciously, markets themselves everywhere they go, with … Continue reading →
Finding Your Why Part 1 – TED talk by Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action Finding the Why Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until … Continue reading →
How’s the Market? – This is the question that many buyers and sellers ask. Quick answer: in Aldea, the market is looking good for buyers and sellers. 3 closings in January, one pending in February, and buyers are out on tour. This time of year is considered the slow season until spring break where it picks up until the end … Continue reading →
Discerning Tenant Wanted for Charming Casita in Aldea – Available April 1 Wild Sage Casita #21 – Live/Work Casita – Unfurnished Studio Suite for Lease in Desirable Aldea Community Are you the kind of person who wants to live in an upscale neighborhood, yet would like to live in a small charming casita? Do you want to live … Continue reading →
Aldea Real Estate 2012 Market Analysis – Looking back on 2012, Aldea had 26 sold houses and 2 sold lots. That is a lot of houses sold in this community. For a housing trend forecast, sales are on the upswing for this new year. The highest price house was listed at $759,500 and sold for $725,000 and only 2 months … Continue reading →
Prices in Santa Fe Home prices are going up across the country & it is also reflected here in Santa Fe. Right now loan rates are down, so it appears we have hit the bottom and are now on the rebound upward, making it a good time to buy and sell as the inventory is still down. Here’s some research … Continue reading →
November Pending Home Sales Rise Again Media Contact: Walter Molony / 202-383-1177 / Email WASHINGTON (December 28, 2012) – Pending home sales increased in November for the third straight month and reached the highest level in two-and-a-half years, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, rose 1.7 percent to 106.4 in November … Continue reading →
First Snow of the 2012 Winter Season – Ah snow! It is why I moved to Santa Fe. In winter the “adobe” garden walls look their best when the snow lays across the horizontal planes. The instant quiet is astonishingly noticeable and the crisp cold air stings ones face. I LOVE this time of year the best. Aldea looks so … Continue reading →
Real Estate News: Sales in San Francisco show sign of things to come December 5, 2012 SFGate.com article:“Sign of the times? San Francisco, Noe Valley neighborhood sells for 33% over asking.” “The real estate market in San Francisco has picked up quite a bit since the big slump. Some neighborhoods have been more attractive than others in the rebound with … Continue reading →
