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Loonie Rides Past Parity With US Dollar. Canucks Follow!
The Canadian Dollar rose above par with the US Dollar today as investors cheered an agreement reached by European leaders on a plan to resolve the euro zone’s debt crisis. The strengthened Canadian Dollar represents a five percent savi...Luxury Sold For Less At Mountain View Country Club, La Quinta
My team and I continue to find great opportunities in all price segments here in the desert. In the luxury segment though, a large discount percentage (40% in this case) from the original sales price of a property can add up to some really big ...Are Luxury Home Sales Here Better Than Expected?
I’m not surprised but you may be. I’ve mentioned this in several of my blogs this year. Luxury home sales (those over $1 million) continue to be fairly substantial. In fact sales of luxury homes here in the desert totaled an impressive $2...Is Brown The New Color For Desert Golf Courses?
I mentioned in my post of October 10th that my team and I were previewing properties at Andalusia in La Quinta. Take a look at my photo here and you’ll see that most of the golf course except for the putting surface looks brown. This is t...Fall Weather In The Desert Brings Lower Temps & Winter Flowers
Yesterday marked the beginning of fall weather in the desert. While there are no local maples and oaks to change color, an abundance of new winter colors will soon be sprouting up throughout the desert. Gardeners and homeowners will sta...
Desert Bank Owned Homes Selling Near Listing Prices
Banks don’t want to own homes that they’ve foreclosed on and so they generally price them to sell. Early on in the mortgage meltdown we saw banks give many properties away at well under market values. Banks have gotten a better handle ...
47 Bank Owned Homes Listed, 14 Remain In 16-Days!
Everyone loves a bargain and a bank owned home usually offers buyers a great opportunity and value. Regular readers of my blog know that banks don’t want to own homes. Banks want to sell foreclosed properties and they want to sell them qu...
How Important Is Location Here In The Desert?
If you’re a first time home or condo buyer in the Palm Springs area you might be interested in a series of articles that I posted online over the last few months that are linked from our Information For Buyers web page. Location is nea...