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Well at least in our home, over the past week or so we have been sharing and battling a nasty end of summer cold.  It came on fast and then lingers.  I am hopeful by the end of this week we will be back to full strength and have some energy to enjoy these spectacular fall days.  After heat of summer these upper 70/lower 80 degree days and cool evenings are a great reminder that we live in a wonderful place.

I wrote about a new listing on Friday and then ended up having some problems with my website so if you followed the link I provided and only were able to see the virtual slide show; here is the link to the listing page for Cargill Way.  I tried an experiment, embedding the slide show on the page vs. just giving it a link.  It didn’t work and for a…

As you can imagine, I have listed a number of homes and visited thousands more, but not often do I see a home that is truly adorable.  The house I listed today falls into the adorable category!  The sellers are a young couple that took a subdivision model home with lots of upgrades to the next level.  It is one of those homes that you feel you could just move right in and enjoy.  As slow as this market is right now I think, if we can get some showings, this one will sell quickly.  Take a look at Cargill Way – Roseville  and let me know what you think. 

By the way, the last report from HousingTracker essentially showed inventory and median asking price flat from the previous week.  It is good that inventory is not going up but shows the increase in…

During these dark days of real estate in the Sacramento area it is easy to feel like we may never see any positive reports again.  This week the SacBee reported that in the Capital region during the month of August, for every two sales a homeowner lost their home to foreclosure.  Check out my latest article, “Foreclosures and the future” and find out more about our local market and where it may go in the future.  I also posted the article over at Rocklin & Roseville Today in my weekly column.

Inventory in the Sacramento area actually has declined in each of the past two weeks.  Could this be the long awaited start in our seasonal decline in homes on the market?  Check out my column,” Another False Start?” over at Rocklin & Roseville Today.

Patriot Day

Today is Patriot Day and is designated in memory of the nearly three thousand who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks.  The name, Patriot Day, does not seem to have caught on yet, most of us still refer to it as “September 11th” or “Nine-Eleven.”  Today is a time to pause and remember, stand with courage….one nation, one spirit.

I am doing two open houses today!  Both in Rocklin, first at my Willard Way listing from Noon to 2:00 PM and then as soon as I can get to Tanus Circle (2:00 PM) to 5:00 PM.  These are both attractive homes in nice neighborhoods and I am hopeful of having some good traffic as they are both ready to sell!

I just picked up a new listing in Yuba City on Oregon Way.  It is my second “short sale” listing and I think it is a great house and priced very aggressively. 

By the way, I still have a few copies of my September Newsletter, let me know if you would like to have one mailed to you.  They are written to be light, fun and not full of real estate stuff.  You can get that here on the website.

Finally, we are moving into the last week for buying the…

We just mailed out the September issue of my Newsletter and it is pretty good with snippets about Patriot Day, a famous dog’s 77th birthday and “Indian Summer”.  We printed a few extra so drop me a note if you would like to receive a FREE copy.

Well, as I have been saying for the past few weeks, the Sacramento real estate market generally slows to a crawl the last two weeks of August and through the Labor Day weekend.  I just checked the inventory level over at HousingTracker and for the week ending September 3 there was virtually no change from the previous week.  We were down 6 homes to 18, 838.  We should get a good idea of what September will bring with the report on September 10.  Traditionally, the inventory has peaked for the year and is starting…

The last two weeks of August and through the Labor Day weekend has historically been a slow time in the Sacramento and Roseville real estate market.  Most of us are getting a last minute summer holiday and starting to make the transition from summer to fall, even if the weather has been unbearably hot the past week. 

I expect we will see some increased activity starting next week although I am beginning to think buying a house is not getting much positive reinforcement from friends and family as it has in the past.  I overheard the following comment the other day from a mother talking to her daughter and son-in-law when they were telling her they were actively looking to buy their first home.  Mom said. “Are you sure you want to buy now, I think you…

Sales are down, inventory is up, prices are falling and more households are able to afford an entry-level home.  All of this is and a prediction is included in my Rocklin & Roseville Today column today, “Only Time Will Tell.”  I have also posted it on my new page at jalone.com.  Let me know what you think, send me an email; I enjoy reading your comments.