San Marino, California is known for its luxury homes, expansive lawns and #1 public school district in California.  Real estate is not inexpensive here.  In fact, an average priced home sold in February of 2011 was $1,886,000 and the average price per square foot was $631 ...

What is the one room in the house that everyone is drawn to? The Kitchen!

When I show homes for sale in Pasadena, the majority of my buyers, had straight to the kitchen. They linger in the kitchen for awhile, I'm sure, trying to visualize themselves cooking and entertaining ...

A few days ago, we talked about what takes place at a Termite Inspection. As a recap, in California, a termite inspection is part of the process of selling a home. The home seller is usually responsible for providing the termite report and paying for certain items on that report ...

If you have your Pasadena home for sale, your real estate agent most likely suggested that you get a Termite Inspection done as soon as possible.  I usually order a termite inspection the first week of all my home listings.

The reason for that is that in Pasadena and ...

QR Codes are here to stay!

Are you selling your Pasadena home?  If so, is your agent tech savvy enough to use QR codes and do they really help sell your home?

A QR Code stands for Quick Response Code and allows users who have a smart phone like ...

Southern California real estate forecast for 2011 seems to be on everyone's mind right now. It's that time of year when I get questions and emails about where the real estate market is heading next year.

Now... I am not a huge believer in predictions, however there are ...

Pasadena real estate closed the month of November with 64 sales (single family). 9 of the 64 homes sold were over $1 million. Below are the most expensive homes that closed escrow last month. On average, the home sales price in November was $712,427 and it took about 2 ...

In our last post, I promised to give you my opinions on whether or not you should put your Pasadena home on the market during the holidays. I am sure that you've been seeing articles where real estate experts take very strong positions on this subject, both pro and ...

Recently, I had several conversations with both Pasadena real estate agents and real estate appraisers about the declining market. Pasadena being part of Los Angeles county is automatically considered to be a declining market by many. Is this a true assessment of the Pasadena real estate market? Can we make ...

There were 56 Pasadena home sales in October of 2010 ranging between $185,000 to $4,000,000. Ten of these Pasadena homes closed escrow at over $1,000,000.

The top 3 luxury home sales include 2 that were on Arden Road!

October's Most Expensive Luxury Estate Sale ...