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81455 Andalusia Drive, La Quinta
Andalusia at Coral Mountain
Highly upgraded luxury country club home (plan 6 / Finana Model)
5,089 Square Feet / Priced at $2,198,000
Sheri Dettman & Associates Represented Buyers
Chef/Owner Emmanuel Janin & his family
Brasserie, the French term for brewery, refers to an unpretentious restaurant that serves drinks and classic Parisian bistro food. Newly opened this year, La Brasserie is a welcome addition to the La Quinta restaurant scene. Chef owner Emmanuel Janin and his wife Kara have succeeded in bringing a traditional French bistro to La Quinta and offer friendly service, reasonable prices and tasty food.
While my husband Bill and I find a few of the French dishes on the heavy side, we enjoyed some of the lighter fare over the course of our three visits. The Graved Lax from the appetizer menu is worth a repeat visit as is the Artisanal cheese platter with fig compote, honeycomb and seasonal garnish.
Bill enjoyed the six-hour brine pork chop with Chipotle mashed potato, grilled asparagus and Coachella Valley date chutney. That said, Bill still rates Lavender Bistro in La Quinta as serving the best pork chop in the valley to date.
The La Brasserie menu offers a good selection of meat, fish and poultry as well as several wonderful salad choices. Their Seafood Bar offers a selection of oysters and shellfish with a variety of sauces. We found the extensive wine list to offer reasonably priced selections, as well.
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La Brasserie Bistro & Bar is open year round and is located at 78-477 Highway 111 in La Quinta at the corner of Washington Street and Highway 111 and adjacent to the Beer Hunter. (760) 771-4400
Update on 2011-10-22 20:51 by Sheri Dettman
Two return visits this month to La Brasserie. And now that the weather has cooled a bit we enjoyed dining on the patio which featured a pianist on the nights we visited.
When most sellers interview real estate agents about selling their home, many get caught up in the process of choosing a sales price. The thought of receiving additional money for your home is a no brainer. Unfortunately many uniformed sellers often choose the listing agent who suggests the highest listing price. Realtors call this scenario ‘buying the listing’. These agents are hoping to sign the listing and then worry about getting the price reduced to the actual market value over the coming months when the seller doesn’t receive an offer.
Establishing The Right Value For Your Property
Truth is, the person whose opinion matters most is the buyer who makes an offer to purchase your property. Properties priced to high receive no offers. Properties priced a little to low generally receive multiple offers thereby driving the price up by receiving offers up to the real market value. There is little danger in pricing a home too low. The danger lies in over pricing and selecting your selling agent solely on their opinion of a higher value.
An agent’s job is to price the home competitively based on the most recent sales comps. Pricing a home is part science, part art and a whole lot of local market experience. It involves a combination of comparing similar properties, tracking the most recent market movement, evaluating current inventory and making adjustments for any differences between comparable properties.
Some Agents Specialize In Expired Listings
Hundreds of agents here in the Palm Springs area real estate market actually make their living by contacting the sellers of expired listings and then relisting these properties at market value. This process is called ‘re-packaging’ an overpriced property. Don’t let this happen to you. Don’t be the owner of an expired listing.
The new flights are in addition to seasonal flights already flying from Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto.
Service from Winnipeg will start December 15th with fares from $219. Flights to WestJet’s hub in Calgary will be increased to two daily round-trips during the peak tourist season.
In the Palm Springs market alone WestJet has seen the number of passengers it serves rise to 120,205 in the first six months of 2011.
Will keep the sunscreen out for you!
DataQuick Information Systems reported on May 24th that sales of resale homes here in the Coachella Valley fell 0.5% during April compared to April 2010. Here’s how our local Palm Springs area real estate market did compared to the national and state numbers for the month of April:
April 2011 versus April 2010 Re-sales:
Coachella Valley: -0.5%
California state-wide: -6.1%
Nationwide: -12.9%
In Palm Springs modern real estate news, the 7,000 square foot residence originally designed for Dinah Shore in 1963 has sold for $4.9 million. This iconic Donald Wexler design is located in the Old Las Palmas neighborhood of Palm Springs. The home was built in 1965 and features six bedrooms, eight baths, two guesthouses, a tennis court, pool and spa on 1.3 acres of land.
According to our Desert Area MLS the home was extensively remodeled. The home is considered an important and architecturally significant estate. Jerry Herman who is known for the stage hits of Mame and Hello Dolly also once owned the home.
City of Palms Springs Luxury Real Estate Update
23 homes within the city of Palms Springs have sold for over $1,000,000 to date in 2011. This compares to 23 million plus sales during the same period in the prior year. Average selling prices for luxury homes in the city of Palm Springs have remained fairly stable from last year. $1,503,738 was the average in 2010 versus $1,485,620 year to date in 2011.
52380 Ross Avenue, La Quinta
Madison Club Custom Residence Homesite
Sheri Dettman & Associates Represented Buyer & Seller
Priced at $995,000
Villa homes overlook a water feature and putting green
1130 Lake Vista, Palm Desert
Bighorn Golf Club Villa
3,314 Square Feet / Priced at $2,495,000
Sheri Dettman & Associates Represented Buyers (not listed on MLS)
Sheri Dettman & Associates was recently awarded the #50 position in the United States and Canada for sales teams during the first quarter of 2011 by Keller Williams Realty. Keller Williams has almost 80,000 agents in over 700 offices in the U.S. and Canada.
Sheri Dettman & Associates is modeled after progressive companies such as Google, Apple and Amazon. Sheri’s team fully utilizes mobile technology and new marketing tools, and has a proven track record to ensure high quality client services and communication for buyers and sellers of resort lifestyle real estate in the Palm Springs area cities of La Quinta, Indian Wells, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert, Indio and Palm Springs.