Calabasas & San Fernando Valley California Real Estate Climate

  I have been working with several would be home buyers here in Calabasas.  All of them feel that they should wait until the housing market is at the bottom before they buy a home.  I'd like to share my explanation of "the bottom of the market" and how it will effect your buying decision.     Thi...

You've spent another weekend driving Mr. and Mrs. Buyer all over town.  You've showed them what you thought was another perfect home, but your buyer's are still on the fence.  Buyers buy with emotion and justify with logic.  If a buyer can not imagine themselves living in the home, then they simp...

Listing your house and crossing your fingers was not enough to sell a house in Calabasas during September.Fourteen escrows closed in Calabasas during September.  This is a 39% decrease in numbers of closed escrows from September 2006.  The average price of a home decreased slightly, 6.4% to $1,17...

   Aug. 2005  Aug. 2006  Aug. 2007# Change from 2006% Change from 2006Closed Escrows 44 31 32 +1 +3.23%Avg. Sale Price 1,195,782 1,144,048 1,638,600 +494,552 +43.23%There are approximately 250 homes on the market in Calabasas as I write this article (about 100 more than were on the market the sam...

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I was so inspired by Desiree Daniels post, Holidays...Are You Planning Ahead? that I wanted to share my Thanksgiving gift from last year.  I like to contact my past clients once a month.  I send a newsletter every month and phone or send a personal note at least four times a year to each of my "A...

More than anything else, people want to be heard and understood.  Every relationship that we have, is one that we have with ourselves first.So how do we become an effective listener when these two statements are conflicting?  We see the world through our own eyes and with our own experiences firs...

Life isn't always so easy...no one said it would be, but every once and awhile you get a little nugget, a tiny little breadcrumb to show you that you're on the right path.  Today was one of those days.  My son, who is sixteen, is a man of little words.  Ever since his was born, he just didn't tal...

What do Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Viral Marketing and John Gerard all have in common?  A lot in my book.  The Kevin Bacon game is based on the concept that it's a small world, and we're all connected.  What you try to do is link any actor to Kevin Bacon in as little links as possible.  For exam...

Like sand through an hour glass so are the days of our lives so does the mortgage business change. We all have done some pretty quick thinking lately to keep up with the recent changes in the mortgage industry. Living and working in Calabasas, CA, which just happens to be the headquarters for Cou...