To be an informed seller or buyer, it is imperative to know what is happening in the current market.  There are many factors to determining the proper price when listing a home for sale.  There are just as many factors to help you decide whether you are getting good value for your dollar when you purchase a home.The tables below show you the weekly breakdowns of new listings, homes sold, active listings and homes currently in escrow.  We have further broken down this information to show you median prices and price ranges, number of days on market and the percentages of list price to sales price.To discuss your particular property and to get a more detailed idea of what your property is worth in our current market, including a free comparative market analysis, please call us.  If you are... 02/02/2009

  Crestline   PRICE  ADDRESS BR/BA/BLT LIST EXP LISTED BY                    CRESTLINE           $56,900  565 Acacia 2/1/1926  10/15/08 02/27/09  Coldwell Banker Sky Ridge $75,900 23400 Crestline Road 2/1/1925 12/22/08 03/19/09  Keller Williams Realty   $96,900 22993 Oak 2/.75/1924 12/16/08 03/16/09  ERA Bruin Trojan   $99,900 504 Wylerhorn 2/1/1963 01/15/09 05/15/09  Prudential Lake Arrowhead   $109,900 24379 Outer Lk. Gregory 2/1/1984 09/23/08 01/30/09  C21 Bonnie Blue   $109,900 23752 Crest Forest 3/2/1986 11/06/08 01/30/09  Mountain Cabin Real Estate   $112,900 585 Old Mill 2/1/1958 11/18/08 05/18/09  Ash Realty   $125,000 1038 Lausanne  3/2/1996 08/25/08 02/20/09  Re/Max Lake Arrowhead   $132,500 499 Dorn 2/1/1958 01/05/09 04/15/09  Coldwell Banker Sky Ridge   $137,800 661 Pyramid ... 02/02/2009

To be an informed seller or buyer, it is imperative to know what is happening in the current market.  There are many factors to determining the proper price when listing a home for sale.  There are just as many factors to help you decide whether you are getting good value for your dollar when you purchase a home.The tables below show you the weekly breakdowns of new listings, homes sold, active listings and homes currently in escrow.  We have further broken down this information to show you median prices and price ranges, number of days on market and the percentages of list price to sales price.To discuss your particular property and to get a more detailed idea of what your property is worth in our current market, including a free comparative market analysis, please call us.  If you are... 01/26/2009

Well, I did it again.  Foot, enter mouth....kinda.  In my posts of bank-owned listings, I inadvertently breached a rule of our Realtor association concerning the advertising of other brokers' listings.  In my desire to provide my readers with a single place to access listings in this popular segment of the real estate market, I completely forgot to give credit where credit was due....to the listing agents of these properties.  Hence, the "OOOPS!" In some ways, I wish they were all my listings.  In other ways, I'm certainly glad that they're not.  The real estate agents who take on these repo listings work hard and put up with a lot of things that most agents would run from.  They deal with eviction, cleaning out abandoned properties, changing out door locks, getting utilities on, paying... 01/26/2009

Looking at what is to come for the real estate market in Crestline for 2009, I thought it important to look at the sales statistics for bank-owned properties in 2008 (since I don't expect the market to change drastically over the next 12 months or so).What I found was actually quite interesting:  Of the total number of single-family homes sold in Crestline in the year 2008, 51.1% of them were foreclosure properties - that's 72 out of 141 units. Looking at prices of the bank-owned homes that sold in 2008, ALL the homes sold for less than $300,000, with only 7 properties selling for $200,000 or more.  That means that just over 97.2% of the bank-owned homes sold in 2008 sold for less than $200,000.Exactly 95% of the total number of homes that sold in Crestline for less than $100,000 in 200... 01/24/2009

  Crestline   PRICE  ADDRESS BR/BA/BLT LIST EXP                 CRESTLINE       B $56,900  565 Acacia 2/1/1926  10/15/08 02/27/09 $75,900 23400 Crestline Road 2/1/1925 12/22/08 03/19/09   $96,900 22993 Oak 2/.75/1924 12/16/08 03/16/09   $99,900 504 Wylerhorn 2/1/1963 01/15/09 05/15/09 R $109,900 24379 Outer Lk. Gregory 2/1/1984 09/23/08 01/30/09   $109,900 23752 Crest Forest 3/2/1986 11/06/08 01/30/09   $112,900 585 Old Mill 2/1/1958 11/18/08 05/18/09 R $125,000 1038 Lausanne  3/2/1996 08/25/08 02/20/09 R $132,500 499 Dorn 2/1/1958 01/05/09 04/15/09   $137,800 661 Pyramid 3/1/1946 01/09/09 04/08/09   $143,100 24863 Felsen 2/1/1962 12/19/08 03/19/09   $144,900 1017 Coulter Pine 3/1.5/1962 01/06/09 04/06/09   $159,900 23959 Lakeview 4/1.5/1977 09/25/08 03/08/09   $164,950 25293 Basel 2/1/... 01/24/2009

The following chart shows all single family home sales in the Crestline Market reported to Rim Association of Realtors, and Mountainlakes MLS for the calendar year 2008 as of January 4, 2009.      Firm Sellers Buyers Total Coldwell Banker Sky Ridge Realty 43 26 69 Century 21 San Moritz 11 13 24 Bibby Realty 9 10 19 Realty World Mountain Resorts 8 11 19 Remax Lake Arrowhead 5 13 18 Out of Area Broker 0 17 17 Lynne B. Wilson and Assoc 8 8 16 Cozy Cabins Realty 4 10 14 Remax Crestline 8 5 13 Prudential California Realty 7 4 11 Century 21 High Country 9 1 10 ERA Bruin Trojan Realty 8 2 10 Lakeview Realty 4 4 8 Exit Realty 4 3 7 Century 21 Prestige Properties 2 5 7 Greg Grant Realty 2 4 6 Coldwell Banker Rim O The World 2 4 6 The Parkinson Group 5 0 5 Windermere Lake Arrowhead 2 3 5 Highlan... 01/24/2009

To be an informed seller or buyer, it is imperative to know what is happening in the current market.  There are many factors to determining the proper price when listing a home for sale.  There are just as many factors to help you decide whether you are getting good value for your dollar when you purchase a home.The tables below show you the weekly breakdown of new listings, homes sold, active listings and homes currently in escrow.  We have further broken down this information to show you median prices and price ranges, number of days on market and the percentages of list price to sales price.To discuss your particular property and to get a more detailed idea of what your property is worth in our current market, including a free comparative market analysis, please call us.  If you are ... 01/20/2009

  Crestline   PRICE  ADDRESS BR/BA/BLT LIST EXP                 CRESTLINE         $75,719 25207 Forest Lake 2/1.5/1941 12/11/08 03/10/09 R $75,900 23400 Crestline Road 2/1/1925 12/22/08 03/19/09   $96,900 22993 Oak 2/.75/1924 12/16/08 03/16/09 N $99,900 504 Wylerhorn 2/1/1963 01/15/09 05/15/09   $109,900 23752 Crest Forest 3/2/1986 11/06/08 01/30/09   $112,900 585 Old Mill 2/1/1958 11/18/08 05/18/09   $119,900 24379 Outer Lk. Gregory 2/1/1984 09/23/08 01/30/09   $134,900 24815 Bernard 3/1.5/1960 10/13/08 02/13/09 $137,800 661 Pyramid 3/1/1946 01/09/09 04/08/09   $139,000 499 Dorn 2/1/1958 01/05/09 04/15/09   $143,100 24863 Felsen 2/1/1962 12/19/08 03/19/09   $144,900 1017 Coulter Pine 3/1.5/1962 01/06/09 04/06/09   $154,900 1038 Lausanne 3/2/1996 08/25/08 02/20/09 R $159,900 23959 Lakev... 01/17/2009

To be an informed seller or buyer, it is imperative to know what is happening in the current market.  There are many factors to determining the proper price when listing a home for sale.  There are just as many factors to help you decide whether you are getting good value for your dollar when you purchase a home.The links below take you to weekly breakdowns of new listings, homes sold, active listings and homes currently in escrow.  We have further broken down this information to show you median prices and price ranges, number of days on market and the percentages of list price to sales price.To discuss your particular property and to get a more detailed idea of what your property is worth in our current market, including a free comparative market analysis, please call us.  If you are l... 01/12/2009

  Crestline   PRICE  ADDRESS BR/BA/BLT LIST EXP                 CRESTLINE         $64,500 22175 Pine 1/1/1945 05/13/08 12/22/08   $69,900 565 Acacia 2/1/1926 10/15/08 01/14/08   $75,719  25207 Forest Lake  2/1.5/1941 12/11/08 03/10/09 R $92,900  23400 Crestline Road  2/1/1925  12/22/08 03/19/09   $96,900 22993 Oak 2/.75/1924 12/16/08 03/16/09 N $106,000 25022 Basel  3/1.75/1950 01/06/09 03/07/09 R $109,900 23752 Crest Forest 3/2/1986 11/06/08 01/30/09 N $112,900 585 Old Mill 2/1/1958 11/18/08 05/18/09 R $115,000  465 Redwood 2/2/1934 11/19/08  02/06/09   $119,900 24379 Outer Lk. Gregory 2/1/1984 09/23/08 01/09/09 R $129,900 479 Thousand Pines  3/1.5/1954  11/04/08 02/02/09   $134,900 24815 Bernard  3/1.5/1960 10/13/08 02/13/09 N $137,800 661 Pyramid 3/1/1946 01/09/09 04/08/09 N $139,000... 01/10/2009

This is going to just be a brief post showing some of my latest pictures of our beautiful paradise here in Crestline and Lake Arrowhead.  The snow began the week before Christmas, and for one full day I didn't leave my house because the plows stopped running in town.  There was so much snow falling that all plows and those huge CAT-3? tractors were all on the main highways trying to keep those roads open for the safety of travelers.  The snow fell from about 5am all the way into the night.  My husband actually had to stay the night down the hill because I didn't want him to risk coming home and getting stuck with the folks who didn't carry chains and were causing accidents.  I stayed up kind of late, and the first tractors came by again about 10:30pm, and there were three of them right ... 01/08/2009

Good morning world. After taking off as much time as I could the last couple of weeks of the year for family that was in town and Christmas, I got my well deserved rest.  I looked back on this year, glad it was over, glad that it happened, glad for all of the people I met, the clients i served, the folks I've shown homes to up here in paradise.  The Lord has blessed us this year, and I don't mean financially. We've had some additions to our family's next generation, with a n and two nephews.  I've had tons of friends get pregnant or have kids, and I think children truly are a blessing.  My husband and I have been able to begin remodeling our home(aesthetically for now, nothing major, but hopefully if kids are in the picture for us this year we will add on some rooms). A few thoughts on ... 01/06/2009

The following chart shows all single family home sales in the Crestline Market reported to Rim Association of Realtors for the calendar year 2008 as of January 4, 2009.    Firm Sellers Buyers Total Coldwell Banker Sky Ridge Realty 43 25 68 Bibby Realty 9 10 19 Remax Lake Arrowhead 5 13 18 Out of Area Broker 0 17 17 Lynne B. Wilson and Assoc 8 8 16 Realty World Mountain Resorts 8 8 16 Remax Crestline 8 5 13 Cozy Cabins Realty 4 8 12 Prudential California Realty 7 4 11 Century 21 High Country 9 1 10 ERA Bruin Trojan Realty 8 2 10 Century 21 San Moritz 0 8 8 Lakeview Realty 4 4 8 Exit Realty 4 3 7 Century 21 Prestige Properties 2 4 6 Greg Grant Realty 2 4 6 The Parkinson Group 5 0 5 Windermere Lake Arrowhead 2 3 5 Highlander Real Estate 0 3 3 Coldwell Banker Running Springs 1 2 3 Coldwell... 01/06/2009

This posts deals strictly with CRESTLINE statistics compared to the prior year's activity for the same month.  This report is for single-family residences only and does not include condos or lots.  We are tracking information regarding new listings and properties sold.  We are also looking at some of the averages - days on market and the list to sale percentages, as well as the number of homes that had to reduce their list prices before an acceptable offer was received. CRESTLINE     DECEMBER  2007 2008  New ListingsMedian List PriceList Price Range 15$249.85K$120K - $489K 15$180K$63.845K - $399.777K Listings SoldMedian Sale PriceSale Price Range 8$214.5K$124K - $350K 11$101.5K$49.9K - $310K Avg. Days On MarketAvg. List To Sale % 122.2595.1 95.292.4 Price Reductions 4/8 (50%) 6/11 (54.5... 01/03/2009

To be an informed seller or buyer, it is imperative to know what is happening in the current market.  There are many factors to determining the proper price when listing a home for sale.  There are just as many factors to help you decide whether you are getting good value for your dollar when you purchase a home.The table below shows you the weekly breakdowns of new listings, homes sold, active listings and homes currently in escrow.  We have further broken down this information to show you median prices and price ranges, number of days on market and the percentages of list price to sales price.To discuss your particular property and to get a more detailed idea of what your property is worth in our current market, including a free comparative market analysis, please call us.  If you are... 01/02/2009

When looking to buy a bank-owned property, there are things you should know.   Call us today to find out ways to successfully negotiate with the bank and how to structure offers that will swing the odds in your favor when there are multiple offers.  We can be reached at 909.336.7971 or by email at info@gregsteffens.com.   PRICE  ADDRESS BR/BA/BLT LIST EXP                 CRESTLINE         $64,500 22175 Pine 1/1/1945 05/13/08 12/22/08   $69,900 306 Rate 3/1/1948 12/05/08 03/05/09   $69,900 565 Acacia 2/1/1926 10/15/08 01/14/08   $75,719  25207 Forest Lake  2/1.5/1941 12/11/08 03/10/09   $79,900 22063 Cedar Pines 3/2/1930 04/04/08 01/08/09 N $96,900  23400 Crestline Road  2/1/1925  12/22/08 03/19/09   $96,900 22993 Oak 2/.75/1924 12/16/08 03/16/09   $119,900 24379 Outer Lk. Gregory 2/1/19... 01/02/2009

To be an informed seller or buyer, it is imperative to know what is happening in the current market.  There are many factors to determining the proper price when listing a home for sale.  There are just as many factors to help you decide whether you are getting good value for your dollar when you purchase a home.Below is a weekly breakdown of new listings, homes sold, active listings and homes currently in escrow.  We have further broken down this information to show you median prices and price ranges, number of days on market and the percentages of list price to sales price. CRESTLINE New Listings 8 Median Price $158,950 Price Range $112,900 - $332,900     Active Listings 145 Median Price $229,900 Price Range $64,500 - $695,000     Pending Listings 25 Median Price $197,900 Price Range ... 11/24/2008

To be an informed seller or buyer, it is imperative to know what is happening in the current market.  There are many factors to determining the proper price when listing a home for sale.  There are just as many factors to help you decide whether you are getting good value for your dollar when you purchase a home.Below is a weekly breakdown of new listings, homes sold, active listings and homes currently in escrow.  We have further broken down this information to show you median prices and price ranges, number of days on market and the percentages of list price to sales price. CRESTLINE New Listings 2 Median Price $224,700 Price Range $94,500 - $354,900     Active Listings 143 Median Price $235,000 Price Range $64,500 - $695,000     Pending Listings 26 Median Price $175,200 Price Range $... 11/17/2008

Fall has come to Crestline again...and it's just beautiful up here!  Yesterday the sunset made the whole village have a yellow-pink glow, and the clouds made for a spectacular show! Living up here is a real treat, particularly when I'm driving along the Rim highway and seeing the San Bernardino valley down below, seeing the buildings and knowing about all of the cars and people and concrete.  From the Rim highway, you can see all the way to the ocean on a SUPER clear day, but also nearly down to Temecula. I don't know what kind of tree this is, but it's in full fall color right now.  I took a better picture of it, but that one's for sale ;) The clouds were heavy, and we had little rain overnight on Sunday.  I enjoy seeing the fog play with the tops of the trees. Very light dusting of sn... 11/11/2008