agents: South Lake Tahoe, CA Market Data… that’s fit to print. - 11/05/11 03:15 PM
The Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog and the Tahoe Daily Tribune (Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / November 3, 2011 / Richard Bolen)
We much like the relationship we have with our local newspaper, the Tahoe Daily Tribune. It's based on many years of providing accurate real estate data for our public.
Today we got a call from them asking for our immediate help. It's data they needed internally, and they needed it quickly. At that moment we were working on a presentation for a Denver meeting next week about our new real estate applications (see this video), and we were … (0 comments)

agents: The South Lake Tahoe, CA Median Sold House… Now and Then. - 10/21/11 07:14 AM
New Blog Feature to Help South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Buyers
 (Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / October 19, 2011 / Richard Bolen)
We have been working for the last year and a half to bring new features on this blog to better help South Lake Tahoe, CA  home buyers and sellers. We're grateful to announce that some of these efforts have just been launched.
 Before we lead you to the first new feature, please understand that this is the beta, or testing phase of product development. This means that our process with these new features is continuing, and at … (0 comments)

agents: South Lake Tahoe real estate homes for sale update: Tahoe Island Drive, CA - 05/31/11 06:18 PM
(Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / May 29, 2011 / Richard Bolen)

South Lake Tahoe neighborhood home values: Tahoe Island Drive prices 1.3% off this year from last year, and 44.4% off the Tahoe Island Drive market high of 2007. We though it would be interesting to track South Lake Tahoe, CA neighborhood home values over time with this visual. As the chart above indicates, here are the median sold prices for the Tahoe Island Drive neighborhood since 2003.
 Tahoe Island Drive Housing Values : Home values this year to date are 1.3% lower ($3,500) than they were for all … (0 comments)

agents: South Lake Tahoe real estate home sales update: Sierra Tract, CA - 05/31/11 06:11 PM
(Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / May 29, 2011 / Richard Bolen)

South Lake Tahoe neighborhood home values: Sierra Tract prices 6.8% off this year from last year, and 54.3% off the Sierra Tract market high of 2005. We though it would be interesting to track South Lake Tahoe, CA neighborhood home values over time with this visual. As the chart above indicates, here are the median sold prices for the Sierra Tract neighborhood since 2003.
 Sierra Tract Housing Values : Home values this year to date are 6.8% lower ($12,750) than they were for all of 2010. Better news … (0 comments)

agents: Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog: Seminar Pt 1, The Odds of Selling A South Lake Tahoe House - 04/29/11 05:39 PM
The Good News is you can, but a South Lake Tahoe House must be priced right to sell. (Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / April 27, 2011 / Richard Bolen)
yes, there are odds to consider when selling a South Lake Tahoe house. IWe're certainly not suggesting that selling a house is a game of chance, however, it is something over which every home seller does have complete control.
Every home seller faces a difficult decision, and we would too if we were selling our homes now; the key consideration is, of course, to get as much as possible. If we … (0 comments)

agents: South Lake Tahoe Real Estate Listings Update: Skyland, NV - 04/24/11 09:31 AM

Homes for Sale Activity: Skyland neighborhood, Stateline, NV area of South Lake Tahoe. (Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / April 20, 2011 / Richard Bolen)
We’ve just updated all  Skyland  (NV) neighborhood real estate homes for sale activity in the Stateline, NV area of South Lake Tahoe, including all 2010 sales, current escrow and all active listings. Please note “Skyland  (NV)” found in our left sidebar.
From the sky high into Skyland, you gotta love it. Here's one of our most desirable Nevada neighborhoods. Affordable homes to stately lake front estates, and it's all good. A private beach, hiking trails, … (0 comments)

agents: Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog: Seminar Pt 1, South Lake Tahoe Home Prices since 1970 - 03/27/11 09:08 AM
Would you believe the avg. South Lake Tahoe, CA house in 1970 cost about $20,000? (Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / March 25, 2011 / Richard Bolen)
south Lake Tahoe, CA home prices have climbed much since 1970. Some may think stratospheric. In the last 40 years, the average South Lake Tahoe house, 3-bd, 2 ba, 1,300 – 1,500 sq ft, has gone from about $20,000 to the $283,000 it is today.
The video here is in two parts, one from 1970 to the end of the '90's when our multiple listing service did not have ample digital records, thus the … (0 comments)

agents: Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog: Seminar Pt 1, The Successful vs the Professional Seller - 03/25/11 10:20 AM
Being the Professional South Lake Tahoe Home Seller… costs you money every time! (Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / March 22, 2011 / Richard Bolen)
While distressed property sales can have a negative price effect on home values in a neighborhood, there is little of that here in South Lake Tahoe.  This is because our neighborhoods are non-conforming, which means houses throughout are not similar.
The economic principle of contribution, which is the effect of a sale on nearby properties, is ruled by the principle of conformity. The segment here from our South Lake Tahoe real estate seminar talks about this, … (0 comments)

agents: Selling a House for Dummies - 10/31/07 04:56 AM
A Home Sales Primer (LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We could write a book on this one. Others have. So we thought we go back to the basics, to discuss selling a house in it’s broadest and simplest form. Sometimes going back to square one helps bring back focus to us and all involved.
There are normally two opposing and one facilitating economic forces for every home sale:
A Seller (one force)A Buyer (opposing force)Two Real Estate Agents (facilitating force) THE SELLER: We’ll do Seller basics here, with those for the Buyer and the Real Estate Agents to follow: Seller’s Goals: … (6 comments)

agents: What happens when GREED gets in your Head? (a scientific study) - 08/06/07 06:05 AM
Why does Greed cause such an immediate cranial vacuity? Or last sometimes so agonizingly long?We’ve been thinking about this for a while... because it’s something that appears in human beings from time to time. At first we wondered if it’s cause is chemical, how Greed shuts down a head, or electrical - some sort of synapse circuit breakdown, or is it metaphysical whatnot that causes such a good-thought meltdown?
Maybe it’s a virus, like a computer glitch, or discombobulating bacteria, a pesky, numbing staph infection or some sort of instant head softening paramecium that’s the root of it. Sometimes, mysteriously, it disappears, … (15 comments)