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Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog: Seminar Pt 1, Putting You in Front of the Market

By Gary Bolen

Real Estate Agent with McCall Realty

March 22, 2011 10:29 AM

Being in Front of the South Lake Tahoe market is much better than the market being in front of you.

(Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog / March 20, 2011 / Richard Bolen)

A home seller must understand the advantages on being in front of the market, rather than the opposite. Perhaps one of the key things that is in the best interests of every South Lake Tahoe seller is to avoid chasing the market down at all costs. That's because, of course, chasing the market down always costs more than right pricing from the get-go.

Right pricing is, of course, starting out at that place that is attractive to home buyers right now, not overpricing to "get lucky", which almost always results in dropping the price some time thereafter. In a declining market, often one does not reduce enough, and the cycle of wait and reduce continues… all at the expense of the home seller.

The key to right pricing is what this blog is all about: good information. Here we provide that 24/7, and we've been doing that for you consistently since 2007 here, and in our real estate market update newsletters that first appeared in 2002.

The seminar was in three parts. This is the fifth segment of Part I. You can also find Part I in it's entirety in our Vimeo account here. It is about 56 minutes in length.

The table of contents for the subjects covered in Part I of our seminar follows:

1. Seminar introduction.
2. Seminar structure and themes.
3. Better understanding Real Estate News.
4. A hardheaded Seller named Tom.
5. Putting you in front of the market: the purpose of our real estate seminar.
6. A market reality about selling a house.
7. The Successful v. the Professional Seller.
8. The two forces in every real estate market.
9. South Lake Tahoe median sold prices since 1970.
10. Effects of high end neighborhoods on the South Lake Tahoe real estate market.
11. How much have South Lake Tahoe home values declined?
12. The folly of real estate reporting, and what if baseball were reported like that?
13. The $300,000 South Lake Tahoe house then and now.
14. If you are considering selling now.
15. Housing demand on both sides of our state line.
16. Distressed property sales volume on both sides of our state line.
17. Distressed property sales effect on home values on both sides of our state line.
18. Distressed property sales compared to those that are not.
19. A short sale primer.
20. Your odds of selling a South Lake Tahoe house.
21. A look at expired listings, a positive surprise.
22. Selling for the most the quickest.
23. Showing you, not telling, you what the market is.
24. Acceptance of market reality and grief recovery.
25. Summary of market conditions.
26. What successful selling isn't.
27. Summary on the successful seller.