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In market climates like this, a win seems to mean more. And that’s saying a lot when it comes to the prestigious Real Trends’ America’s Best Real Estate Agents List. This year, we have the privilege to boast that 16 of our agents made the cut. In Some ways, it’s not a surprise. After all, we see the incredible feats our professionals perform on a daily basi...
Leave it to the hottest month on record to deliver a breath of fresh air to Southern California homebuyers. While it’s not exactly unanimous, 10 of the 12 neighborhoods we monitor dropped closer to a buyer’s favor. And we’re not talking about minor drops in most cases. One neighborhood even sank a surprising 18 percentage points! Of course, we...
Less competition doesn’t make the current housing market any less challenging. Just ask the agents who battled through a vicious third quarter to claw their way onto our Top 25 Agents list. This year has turned a lot of agents away from the industry, from rookies feeling in over their heads to seasoned agents tempted into early retirement. Then, there are those agents who st...
As our absorption rate analysis blogs have likely emphasized by now, statistics are often at the whim of interpretation. These numbers are concrete: they tell us something that actually happened. A certain number of homes were sold in a given area. A certain number of homes were on the market in that same area. Anything beyond that is an assigned meaning that we’ve come to t...
If you missed JohnHart’s {RE}VOLUTION event yesterday, you’ll likely be hearing some of our plans trickling out to the public over the weeks. One of the most hotly discussed topics after the presentation was the introduction of JohnHart’s and Golden Coast Finance’s AMLOsm: a plan that would see qualifying agents potentially multiply their commissions while ...
Originally published on April 25, 2023 Several weeks ago, some of you received an email from your JohnHart agent about a promising new housing loans initiative. Dubbed the California Dream For All Shared Appreciation Loan, it sought to level the playing field for disadvantaged Californians with aspirations of homeownership. Yet, less than two weeks later, the program has already disperse...
April 2024 brings more of that same energy we saw in March as the industry shakes off the accumulated frost of the holiday hibernation. A lot of our communities continued to climb further into the seller’s market, though with less severity. One neighborhood really ingratiated itself to sellers with a double-digit surge. But it was a usual suspect (we’ll get to that in ...
