How’s the Real Estate Market?  The news in our real estate market continues to revolve around the supply of homes.  As you read the local and national news the topic of a housing shortage continues to be a recurring theme. With our low inventory levels, we are still seeing a surprisingly…

How’s the Market?  Our greater Santa Barbara real estate market remains very active with one notable change, our sales volume has seemed to peak and is trending to more historic numbers. So it begs the question, is our market changing because our sales volume is trending down a little? Currently, it…

How’s the Market?  Our real estate market is dynamic; many buyers and sellers are making changes right now as they consider their needs, desires, and dreams. We continue to have a high demand for properties in Santa Barbara as seen by our sales volume exceeding our historic averages.  For the last 12…

Real estate in Santa Barbara remains highly sought after. We have remarkably few homes and condos on the market.  On May 28th, only 150 homes & condos were listed for sale from Carpinteria to Goleta.  In April, 219 properties sold even amidst limited inventory.  In theory, if no new homes came on the market for 30…

Home means a tremendous amount to us all. Over this last season, most of us have spent more time thinking about our homes, considering likes or dislike.  People dreamed, desired change, and realized that time is short. A lot of people are on the move and this is being seen across…

Lack of homes! We all have a general understanding that our “free market” runs on a number of principles, one major one being that of supply and demand. This has never been so highlighted to us in our real estate market as it has been these last nine months. Our…

First, we simply need to thank you for supporting our business, we are always grateful! And now the wrap-up of 2020. The Unexpected Year! As we all can attest, 2020 was a year like no other. From a real estate perspective, the first two months started off strong.  Sales activity…

How’s The Market? We continue to have an incredible demand. A typical November yields an average of 126 sales over the last 7 years. 2020 was dramatically higher with 204 sales. The pace dropped compared to September and October record highs of 272 and 267 respectively, but we don’t feel…

So How’s The Market? Like none other! Santa Barbara real estate has not seen activity like this before. The sheer volume of sales is unprecedented.  The amount of buyer activity continues to surprise us all. September was simply a banner month with 272 total home and condo sales. To put…

So How’s The Market? August has to be characterized by the sheer volume of sales. 229 homes and condos sold from Carpinteria to Goleta in the month of August. Since January 2013, almost eight years, only one other month has had more monthly sales than August 2020; May 2013 the…