(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Highland Woods, one of the neighborhoods in our South Lake Tahoe real estate market. Please click the link “Highland Woods, CA” found in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog.  This will lead one to all current Highland Woods listings, current escrow and all home sales in 2007. Also included are all Highland Woods home sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004. Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate market. Here you will find current South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available online... 10/12/2007

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Heavenly Valley, one of the neighborhoods in our South Lake Tahoe real estate market. Please click the link “Heavenly Valley, CA” found in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog.  This will lead one to all current Heavenly Valley listings, current escrow and all home sales in 2007. Also included are all Heavenly Valley home sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004.Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate market. Here you will find current South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available onl... 10/12/2007

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Gardner Mountain, one of the neighborhoods in our South Lake Tahoe real estate market. Please click the link “Gardner Mountain, CA” found in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog.  This will lead one to all current Gardner Mountain listings, current escrow and all home sales in 2007. Also included are all Gardner Mountain home sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004.Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate market. Here you will find current South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available... 10/12/2007

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Country Club Estates. Please click the link “Country Club Estates, CA” found in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog.  This will lead one to all current Country Club Estates listings, current escrow and all sales in 2007. Also included are all Country Club Estates sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004. Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate market. Here you will find current South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available online. Our goal is to provide you with all of the informatio... 10/12/2007

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Christmas valley. Please click the link “Christmas Valley, CA” found in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog.  This will lead one to all current Christmas valley listings, current escrow and all sales in 2007. Also included are all Christmas valley sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004. Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate market. Here you will find current South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available online. Our goal is to provide you with all of the information... all of the ... 10/05/2007

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Bijou. Please click the link “Bijou, CA” found in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog.  This will lead one to all current Bijou listings, current escrow and all sales in 2007. Also included are all Bijou sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004. Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate market. Here you will find current South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available online. Our goal is to provide you with all of the information... all of the time. About Bijou: (Number homes: 1,372 plus... 10/05/2007

(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG) We’ve just updated Al Tahoe. Please click the link “Al Tahoe, CA” found in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog.  This will lead one to all current Al Tahoe listings, current escrow and all sales in 2007. Also included are all Al Tahoe sales for 2006, 2005 and 2004. Also included in our left sidebar are all other South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV neighborhoods, plus complete reports on the entire South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate market. Here you will find current South Lake Tahoe and Stateline, NV real estate absorption rates as well. This is the most complete and up-to-date Lake Tahoe real estate information available online. Our goal is to provide you with all of the information... all of the time. About Al Tahoe (Number of ... 10/05/2007

A Day in the Life of a Realtor’s Day Off!Ok, I’ve got a roaring cold. The dreaded flu. One of those kind that everything you take for it tastes so near-nauseatingly awful that one gets well quicker out of the absolute terror that you might have to take it again. This is one of those frog in your throat, head pounding, red nose rubbing, bronchial wheeze maladies that is far too pedestrian for any human being. Yet we all get them... and we all know what it feels like.So Sunday morning, I’m in bed, of faint enough consciousness to know that the TV is on, and that it’s still football season, but could care less if the truth be known. It was one of these states where nobody has, or would ever care about having a favorite team. Today was no Sunday at the beach. Grumplestilskin just wanted to ... 10/02/2007

Tahoe360 Gets More Scenic Virtual Tours---TAKE A LOOK!!! Tahoe360 Gets More Scenic Virtual ToursCutting-Edge Lake Tahoe Website Brings the Hi-Res Virutal Experience to a Map-Based Visitor GuideLake Tahoe, CA - Enthusiasts and potential visitors of Tahoe can now get an immersive view of the area's impressive scenery with shoreline Virtual Tours now viewable on Tahoe360.com. The site, which offers detailed information on the entire Reno / Lake Tahoe region, specializes in the more visual online experience, using custom interactive map technology, web cams and 360º virtual tours.Tahoe360 hosts a number of the QuickTime VR tours of the Tahoe region, in the viewer's choice of sizes. Web visitors select from "small" or"medium" formats, for slower internet connections, or "full-screen," for a ... 09/28/2007

What are absorption rates... and why are they the best indicators of Market Performance? As it relates to your South Lake Tahoe Real Estate market, we first heard the term “absorption rates” in a class to earn our Certified Residential Specialist designation (CRS).  We thought it must be something very complicated. You know one of those tedious to learn, intellectual kind of things, straight out of egghead world. But we were wrong. Perhaps wordy, and nothing more than that, “absorption rates” are very simple and immediate to understand and appreciate.Absorption rates are also the most important guide we know of  to help you price a house for sale, and to get an idea of how long it might take to get it sold. We'll show you how this works under "Absorption Rates by Price Range" further be... 09/27/2007

Finding and Using Your South Lake Tahoe Real Estate Statistics: Here’s How. [LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG Active rain friends, we're posting this for both our South Lake Tahoe real estate market, and for you. Our hope in providing this for AR is to present an example of how all of us might position our "other" blog to our primary market.We've added this as a link in the "Our favorites" in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Blog. We'll also refer to this link when we email prospects and clients.We will also advertise our "Our Purpose" and "How To" links publicly and include them in our email and direct mail campaigns.]Here's the article: One of the key features and services of the Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog are the statistics found herein. The statistics are market facts, rumor free and ... 09/26/2007

Our purpose is multifold: It starts with South Lake Tahoe real estate market health.(LAKE TAHOE REAL ESTATE BLOG. Active rain friends, we're posting this for both our South Lake Tahoe real estate market, and for you. Our hope in providing this for AR is to present an example of how all of us might position our "other" blog to our primary market.We've added this as a link in the "Our favorites" in the left sidebar of our Lake Tahoe Blog. We'll also refer to this link when we email prospects and clients. To follow this article, we'll do a complete "How To" post on the statistics found in our blog, why they are important and how to use them.We will also advertise these "Our Purpose" and "How To" links publicly and include them in our email and direct mail campaigns.)Here's the post: (every... 09/25/2007

Decline in Demand and Increase in Inventory creates Excellent Buying Opportunities in South Lake Tahoe. We’ve just updated the Absorption Rates for our South Lake Tahoe, CA real estate market. Here’s a bullet-point summary of  the current South Lake Tahoe real estate market condition:Summary: In the last 365 days, our South Lake Tahoe, CA market has sold an average of 34 homes a month.In 2007, the monthly average of homes sold in South Lake Tahoe, CA has dropped to 29 sales per month.Home sales in 2007 presents a decline of 8 sales per month compared to all of 2006.It will take 15.7 months to sell our inventory at the current absorption rates over the last 356 days.It will take 18.4 months to sell our inventory at the current absorption rates for 2007. The Bottom Line: It will take a ye... 09/21/2007

Commentary on the Fed Funds Rate Cut: by Christopher Probert. (SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, NV)  Wednesday's bond market has opened in negative territory as stocks continue yesterday's late rally. The stock markets are posting another round of gains during early trading with the Dow up 86 points and the Nasdaq up 19 points. The bond market is currently down 19/32, but due to strength in mortgage-related bonds late yesterday, we should see an improvement in this morning's mortgage rates of approximately .375 of a discount point from yesterday's morning rates.To read the rest of this article, click here. Click Here (for something cool)Our Bolero Button? (It's in the sidebar under mybloglog.)  09/20/2007

We were sitting there watching it, the News this morning, barely noticing that housing starts are at the lowest they have been since 1995. What was remarkable about that was we saw it in a bottom of the screen crawl. We didn’t care if we missed it or not.We have bigger business to deal with. Celebrity business. O. J. business. Again.We forgot about yesterday’s 300+ dow increase. That was second fiddle to todays news. There was not a word that the stock market was up again this morning by triple digits. Nothing is as important as our spoon-fed media appetite for another train wreck about to happen, another tragically flawed attention-getter about to crash and burn.So all media attention is once again focused on pomp, not circumstance. The Fed Funds rate cut is yesterday’s news. And today... 09/19/2007

What the Fed Funds Rate Cut could mean for you! As you probably know by now, the Federal Reserve lowered it’s rates today by a half point. This is it’s benchmark interest rate, and the cut represents an aggressive policy shift that is intended to limit the damage to our economy from the recent disorders and corrections in the housing and credit markets.An interest rate cut had been expected, what’s important, though, is the Fed elected to choose a bolder rate cut than the more cautious quarter-point reduction that many had anticipated.   This is the first Fed interest rate cut in 4 years. Many consumers, and perhaps some home sellers and buyers in particular, will welcome the Fed’s cut as good news. We sure hope that materializes. The move will likely mean lower borrowing costs for mort... 09/18/2007

What we are seeing from people who contact us through our Blogs. One of the great things about blog is meeting new people. We’ve met both new clients and established professionals from our real estate blog. That leaves a rather simple deduction. There is business and friendship to be had here. We certainly like making money as much as most, we suspect. But that is not the measure of us. Creativity is way up there, but friendship is more important than that.Yesterday we had the opportunity to talk to one of our newfound online friends. Broker Bryant and I had a great discussion about things AR and things us. It was our first conversation; but it wasn’t like talking to somebody for the first time; we knew so much more. It was like we were old friends. That’s what a weblog does. It gives u... 09/17/2007

South Lake Tahoe has Every Important Leisure Activity... except a Theme Park. (Thank Goodness!) Nationally, most second, or vacation-home owners gravitate toward water. They want their second home to be near a lake, the ocean or a river.That is especially true for South Lake Tahoe Buyers. The foremost attraction in seeking a vacation home is the Lake. (We’ve got a good one.) The leisure activity they like most is water sports. Especially here in the Western United States, second home buyers prefer to have a home in the mountains. That’s true for all buyers in general nationally, and certainly true for South Lake Tahoe Buyers in particular. In fact South Lake Tahoe has both of the two principal attractions for second home buyers nationwide: it’s got mountains... and a lake. And is has th... 09/17/2007

We have just updated all 2007 South Lake Tahoe, CA residential home sales. To date, there have been 243 single family home sales in South Lake Tahoe, CA this year. To get as true indication of market conditions as possible, we also continue to look at and report all single family home sales in South Lake Tahoe,CA for the last 365, 180, 90 and 30 days as well.The spreadsheet has two links that will lead you to charts containing statistical data on all these 2007 homes sales. These charts have the following information:     * Average Original List Price          * Median Original List Price          * Median Reduced, or Current Price    * $ Difference List v. Reduced Price    * % Difference List v. Reduced Price    * Average Days on Market    * Average Price per Sq Ft    * Average Size  ... 09/13/2007

National and South Lake Tahoe Economic Conditions: We have added a new feature to our Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog. The Chase Home Finance Economic Update Report... for South Lake Tahoe and Beyond.  Prepared by Steven C. Peterson, Branch Manager at Chase Home Finance in Roseville, CA,  a principal mortgage lender throughout our South Lake Tahoe real estate market, and a partner of ours in our Real Estate Market Update Seminars here in South Lake Tahoe, the report is a commentary of current economic conditions, including a list of all current economic indicators.Weekly Commentary, by Steven C. Peterson (800-894-5440, ext. 214) At this point, a consensus has been reached that the Fed will lower the fed funds rate at the September 18 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting. Ind... 09/13/2007