Black Friday to Cyber Monday is a wonderful time to score some great gifts at a nice discount in preparation for holiday gift giving. At the same time, the holidays are also a fabulous time for buyers to land an incredible real estate deal at a discount. If you have been following the blog for years or have been a client, you know I believe Thanksgiving Day to New Year’s Day is the Black Friday to Cyber Monday period for great residential real estate deals, so make sure to take advantage of it! Steps to Score a Great Deal Right Now The real estate market changes each and every year, so your strategy needs to change
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Month: November 2019
It’s that time of year again. Semi-annually, I like to check in on the performance of North Redondo Beach new construction town homes. As always, we will focus on MLS areas 151 (Villas North) and 152 (Villas South). For this post, I will be covering both two-on-a-lot and three-on-a-lot happenings as there has been a lot of action. Additionally, I will try to keep the structure and comments the same as my blog post six months ago titled, “North Redondo Beach New Construction Update,” so you can see how things have changed. Three-on-a-Lots Six months ago, you may remember that developers started to go bigger and bolder with three-on-a-lot developments to drive their profits higher. The
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The Palos Verdes Peninsula luxury real estate market typically moves slower when compared to the Beach Cities these days. Farther removed from major economic centers like Downtown L.A., Santa Monica, the Miracle Mile, and Silicon Beach, the pool of wealthy buyers is smaller in Palos Verdes than areas like Manhattan Beach, Beverly Hills, or Brentwood, to name a few. That said, the past couple years for luxury sales has slowed for Sellers on the Palos Verdes Hill. In “boom” years like 2014 and 2015, the Palos Verdes Peninsula had home sales of $6 million or above much more frequently, with 12 sales and 13 sales respectively. Most notable was in 2015 when those 13 sales of
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In 2017, I wrote a blog post called “A Can’t Miss South Bay Investment,” which addressed the new California ADU (Accessory Dwelling Units) bills signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. This was the first step in allowing for “granny flats” or “in-law units” to be built on owner-occupied single-family property, which was otherwise expensive or nearly impossible to get done in the past. For me, this was a “can’t miss” opportunity for homeowners in the South Bay to cash in on rental income by converting a garage or constructing a rental unit in their backyard. My optimism was soon quashed, however, as cities throughout the state could take the state law and amend certain aspects
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