Hits: 17It is difficult to break away from the pack and go forward alone. Well, for some it is difficult while we all know others that never do things the same way as everyone else. Pricing a home when listing it for sale is an art and a science. And very few sellers want to […]
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Sales keeping marching on as inventory drops
Hits: 12Welcome to an update of the residential real estate market for Santa Fe city and county, circa early September, 2015. Mostly the news continues to show improvement in unit sales along with a gradual shrinkage of inventory edging the the market more into balance and creating urgency with buyers. As is always true, the […]
Continue readingIt must be difficult to focus
Hits: 10With all the distractions and interruptions, I have trouble staying on message sometimes. How about you? There are times I want to dig deeper into the supernova that is The Donald and then realize the election is more than a year off and what I read now may be obsolete by Halloween; so why […]
Continue readingProper grammar can’t help me now!
Hits: 11If only I had stayed in school for another couple dozen years. Then I might be able to convey what it is I want to say. I usually assume it is my lack of communication skills when someone I am talking with does not understand. I almost never assume it is their lack of […]
Continue readingShow me YOUR double digits and I’ll show you mine
Hits: 12If Santa Fe residential real estate gets any hotter, we are going to have to jump in the pool. At this point year-to-date we are 11.5% ahead of last year’s unit sales pace. Through July 31, 2015, 1139 sales had been reported while the same period in 2014 saw 1022 sold. That fact alone […]
Continue readingThis just in: pleasing everyone is still impossible
Hits: 13The City of Santa Fe has a short term rental ordinance that attempts to regulate and control the activity of leasing a dwelling unit for a period of time less than 30 days. There are several reasons why many think this is necessary and just as many people think it may be invasive of […]
Continue readingResponding to cries for attention
Hits: 21Few children fail to master the skill of gaining attention from their parents and caregivers. Some have multiple ways to get attention, with noise or actions or facial expressions. And we all probably know plenty of adults that still use their bag of tricks to get attention for whatever selfish reason they possess. Sometimes […]
Continue readingTrump buying Santa Fe real estate?
Hits: 13What’s this I hear? The Donald is buying hotels and golf courses around Santa Fe? And designing a new home in the hills that will look down over all of us minions? Anyone with first hand information about this scoop please speak up. We all need to be on the lookout for this sort […]
Continue readingThese numbers are great!
Hits: 12Several milestones were reached recently that inform us once again that our slow but steady climb out of the worst of the recession is over. The one I want to mention first, available in the Monthly Residential Sales chart from the list of reports on the left side of this blog, is the single […]
Continue readingA moment of balance
Hits: 22Librans like to focus on balance and harmony. There is a time when balance in the real estate market can be found and its right about now. This is the time we change over from cool to warm when taking the temperature of our market. We’ve had enough of tepid. What happened in June […]
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