Tag Archives: home+pricing

Should You Hire A Buyer’s Agent?

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Tim Freund

“I’d like to see your listing at 123 Such and Such Street.  Can you show me?”  I get this call now and then.  In fact I handle transactions for both buyer and seller a couple-few times a year.  As a … Continue reading →

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New Home Sales: A Creative Cure

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Tim Freund

For several years now, the housing industry has struggled to boost interest in new homes.  Competition from foreclosures and distressed sales coupled with an oversupply of resale homes, has led to the fewest number of newly constructed homes on record.  … Continue reading →

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Buyers, Buyers Buyers…

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Tim Freund

I love buyers.  I enjoy looking at a lot of properties before finding the right one.  I don’t mind spending time on the phone going back and forth, over differences of opinion, discussing financing, and the merits or lack thereof … Continue reading →

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The Real Estate Perception Gap

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Tim Freund

Recently I wrote about the “Accidental Landlord” syndrome, where a seller ultimately concludes that it makes more sense to rent their property than to take an offer far below what they feel their property is worth.  In my earlier discussion … Continue reading →

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Should I Stay or Should I Go (Part 1 of 2)

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Tim Freund

As a college kid in the eighties I loved the Clash.  Should I stay or should I go now… A lot can be learned from the poets and the artists of the world…  If I go there will be trouble, … Continue reading →

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What Ventas Inc. Tells Us

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Tim Freund

Who?  I know that’s your first thought.  It was my first thought when I read about them last fall.  Ventas Inc. is a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust).  Their singular focus has been the very rapid acquisition of housing for … Continue reading →

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Only One Can Own “The Best”

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Tim Freund

Yesterday I showed a new listing I have coming out to an agent and his client.  The agent had sold the same 4200 square foot, 5 bed, 5 1/2 bath model about 8 houses down for $950,000 in late spring; … Continue reading →

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All’s Quiet On The Western Front… Literally

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Tim Freund

I have been selling real estate for nearly 21 years.  In all those years there are certain truisms that play out year after year: August is the slowest month of the year for real estate; sellers typically command more money … Continue reading →

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Proposition 13

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Tim Freund

My parents closed on their home in Walnut Creek, California in August of 1966.  For 13 years they saw their home reassessed every year as California property values steadily increased.  In 1978 Howard Jarvis led California in what was characterized … Continue reading →

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Case-Shiller for October

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Tim Freund

Greetings from vacation!  I just couldn’t resist a comment on these numbers…  We knew going in, October was going to post a bad month in the S & P/Case-Shiller Index, and it was, yet not entirely, specifically for California.  There … Continue reading →

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