Santa Maria Lifestyle

This week before the Labor Day weekend has proved to be more than a little strange for our local real estate market.  Even in our "soft" market we see an average of 6 to 8 pended listings per day during the week, with Monday being the big spike after the weekend.  That was not true this week.  Wh...

I thought you might find the market statistics for our area interesting.  The data compares YTD sales and listing information for 2007/2008: Residential Sales:  2007                                        2008                    %Change Listings Sold:          771                                 ...

Keller Williams Realty in Bullhead City announced their first annual "Christmas in July" food drive for  needy homeless persons and at-risk kids.  This event seeks donations of canned food items to help feed the homeless and less fortunate kids in this area.  Donations can be dropped off at the n...

The monsoons arrived in Mohave County this week bringing with them high humidity, thunderstorms, strong damaging winds and even some much needed rain.  In Desert Foothills along the Bullhead Parkway where I live, the winds knocked down many trees, damaged many more and even tore concrete roof til...

Getting away from the topic of real estate for a moment, it has come to my attention that our local Boys and Girls Club Organization is suffering from a funding shortage that can be attributed to the downturn in both the local and national economies.  I work with an agent who is on the board of o...

Normally during this time of year as the weather here in Bullhead City heats up, so does our real estate market.  This year seems this is not the case as our real estate market continues to remain sluggish with sales of homes centered around foreclosures.  The continued rise in the price of gasol...

Those of you in the Mohave Valley area who have Frontier communications (Frontiernet.net) as your email provider need to be aware of some recent issues with Frontiers email service.  First, if you were not aware of this, you are being required to change your account settings for your outgoing ema...

After almost a year of anticipation, delays, excitment and hard work by our dedicated associates we have moved to our new office on the Bullhead Parkway.  Located at 2440 Adobe Rd, Suite 106, our office has the brand new smell and is more than twice the size of our old office.  We already have ha...

While the sale of new and existing homes in the Bullhead City/Mohave Valley area remains slower than the boom times, Commercial Development is increasing, with a major Shopping Center currently under contruction. The new Target center located at the corner of Highway 95 and the Bullhead Parkway n...

Last week, I mentioned in my post that the real estate market here in the Bullhead City area had slowed like much of the rest of the nation.This past week has seen real estate sales slow to a crawl.  Normally, even in this slow sales period, there are between 8 and 14 daily sales of real property...