tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89702265740186671672024-03-18T20:24:29.813-07:00Realtor JeffJeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-72148640201462613262017-04-04T14:11:00.000-07:002017-04-04T14:11:15.297-07:00The "Green Rush" and Humboldt County, CA Real Estate
The “Green Rush” is on! People from all over California and all over the nation are rushing to Humboldt County to buy up “grow properties,” land suitable for the growing of marijuana. Has it affected the real estate market in Humboldt County? I teased out some simple statistics to get a broad overview of this issue.
To get a baseline of the real estate market without Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-31256789266131419312013-02-05T11:20:00.001-08:002013-02-05T11:20:09.431-08:00Real Estate Market Stats - Humboldt County, CA , February 2013
The statistics for Humboldt County's real estate market are very, very
remarkable. I've had to tweak the parameters of my graph axis to keep the data
on the chart!
The inventory of active homes in Humboldt County has literally fallen off
the charts! I've never seen less than 500 homes on the market until last
December, and now we are under 400! There is a real shortage of homes on the
Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-83017490013010399042012-12-13T15:24:00.004-08:002012-12-13T15:24:57.163-08:00Humboldt County Real Estate Statistics for November 2012 I'm bragging! I called the bottom of the market as January 2012 as early as last February! And sure enough, we seem to have hit it and bounced up a little bit! So, where are we going from here?
The good news is that inventory is really, really low! I don't think I've ever seen inventory this low! This usually means buyers fighting over the best listings with multiple offers, maybe Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-82562779640713478942012-07-20T17:09:00.001-07:002012-07-20T17:14:27.707-07:00Was January '12 the Humboldt Co. Real Estate Bottom?Everyone is wondering when we're going to hit bottom in the real estate market. I predicted this past February that January 2012 was going to be it! Why?
The number of active homes on the market has been at normal or below normal levels since December of 2011.
And demand in the form of the number of homes sold has been very solid since August of 2011! When supplyJeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-12948214034431382902012-04-18T19:59:00.002-07:002012-04-18T20:00:04.835-07:00Great Humboldt County 3rd District Supervisorial Forum!
Mark Lovelace
Humboldt Association of Realtors had a great candidate forum tonight between two great people, incumbent Mark Lovelace and challenger Karen Brooks, who are both running for Humboldt County’s 3rd County Supervisor seat! Both candidates did a great job of fielding some tough questions and communicating many similarities, but also some key differences in how they would Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-88358231701549251922012-04-07T11:14:00.001-07:002012-04-07T11:15:36.735-07:00Tacky Neighbors Can Cost You Money!The three biggest factors in real estate values are 1) location, 2) location, and 3) location. So the old saw goes, but this photo proves that the quality of neighbors has to fit in there somewhere. I drive by this pick-up truck on my way home from our local grocery store, and cringe every time. And when my children are with me, I often think about pointing out some feature in Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-78494691365992054162012-03-14T09:52:00.000-07:002012-03-14T09:52:23.679-07:00Why I Love Humboldt County, California!I Love Humboldt County, California!
A picture is worth a thousand words!
But just in case you missed some of them, let me repeat. The mountains trail down right to the ocean, so we Eurekans can walk on the beach, often in the warm sun, and see snow in the mountain peaks inland a few miles. I love the way big waves crash against our rocky coast and spray foam everywhere. I loveJeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-44017251428953039942012-03-05T17:15:00.000-08:002012-03-05T17:15:14.766-08:00Humboldt County, California Real Estate Market Report - February 2012Could January 2012 be the bottom of the bust?
Our inventory hardly ever goes down for three straight months at the beginning of the year, but that's exactly what happened January, February & March of this year! This can't help but to give prices some support, and keep them from going down.
And the number of homes sold is not only running at "normal" levels for February, but has Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-43688812894499006042011-11-07T13:18:00.000-08:002011-11-07T13:18:05.129-08:00How to Sell a Listing for an Extra 5.5%!I made my sellers an extra 5.5% on their sales price!
Several other agents had told my clients that they couldn’t sell their home for more than $500,000! I thought we could! My CMA (Competitive Market Analysis) indicated that we could sell for somewhere between $500,000 & $540,000, so we listed it at $539,000 and went to work.
My team prepared our standard Big WoW Marketing Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-67530071487839711022011-11-03T11:42:00.000-07:002011-11-03T11:42:25.158-07:00I Made My Sellers an Extra 6.7%!I made my sellers an extra 6.7% on their sales price!
My client had been listed before at $1M with a different agent. He was shocked when I told him his property was worth $750,000. He really wanted to sell, and he loved my Big WoW Marketing package, with it's custom website, but he said he couldn’t go below $850,000. I told him I would market his property at $849,000, and we’d give it our best Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-56786869757219372582011-09-16T10:42:00.000-07:002011-09-16T10:44:00.398-07:00Do Custom Websites for Listings Work?My sellers had already moved to Arizona when they called me in response to an expired listing letter. They had their home listed with another agent, it didn’t sell, and they weren’t happy with the agent’s efforts to sell their home. I explained my Big WoW Marketing package to them (see a sample at http://www.2972oldarcataroad.com/) and they listed their house with me, albeit at more than I told Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0Big Lagoon, CA 95570, USA41.160927000000008 -124.132874000000028.7150260000000088 176.10150099999998 73.606828000000007 -64.367249000000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-79590793320769729912011-08-05T15:56:00.000-07:002011-08-05T15:56:44.104-07:00Humboldt County, California Real Estate Statistics, July 2011How is our local real estate market in Humboldt County, California performing, in the midst of all of the gloomy national and world economic news? Kinda yucky.
Our housing inventory, the number of homes for sale on the market, has been creeping up all year. We're not high beyond normal, but we are high enough that we might start seeing some downward pressure on prices.
The more homes we have Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-84782861037177906172011-08-04T16:03:00.000-07:002011-08-04T16:03:09.207-07:00Good Video, Bad Video, for Luxury HomesThe marketplace is changing, and no place faster than real estate. One of the hot new developments in the marketing arena is the use of video. All of the guru’s are saying that we as Realtors must use video to show off our listings. Is this a good, necessary thing? If it’s done correctly, yes!
Many agents are using smart phone technology to do a video “walk through” of their listings. Beware. Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-52611601887343797772011-06-15T11:08:00.000-07:002011-06-15T11:08:51.066-07:00How Do I Rent-To-Own?Lots of times potential buyers ask me about a rent-to-own home purchase. In California, rent-to-own purchases are most commonly done as a "lease-option," where the buyer makes an offer to lease the property over a defined period, with the option to buy it in the future at a pre-agreed price and set of terms. The first stage is to offer terms of a lease. Often a buyer mightJeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-24854654257569108532011-01-21T17:43:00.000-08:002011-01-21T17:46:16.819-08:00Humboldt County, California December Real Estate StatisticsI’m a little late getting these stats our, but the real estate market in Humboldt County, California is hanging in there during the month of December!
At the beginning of 2011, there were 550 homes on the market, which is right in our “normal” 500- 550! Fewer homes on the market, of course, supports prices and keeps them from falling. That’s good.
And we had an uncharacteristically high 75 Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-45782499546321828232010-12-16T17:29:00.000-08:002010-12-16T17:29:44.133-08:00Humboldt County, California November Real Estate StatisticsI’m a little late getting these stats our, but the real estate market in Humboldt County, California is hanging in there during the month of November!
There are currently 568 homes on the market, which is just a hair higher than our “normal” 500- 550, and close to our recent low of 550. Fewer homes on the market, of course, supports prices and keeps them from falling. That’s good.
The Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-74734347877524545022010-11-10T11:34:00.000-08:002010-11-10T11:37:58.999-08:00What Are Closing Costs?First time home buyers often ask about closing costs, and it can be very confusing, especially when they have limited funds to bring into escrow for closing, or when they are shopping multiple loan products with different costs structures. It’s important for all home buyers to remember that there are 3 different types of closing costs.
Title and escrow fees, and county (or city) transfer taxes Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-86275167343129596452010-11-04T12:28:00.000-07:002010-11-04T12:47:52.574-07:00October 2010 Humboldt County Real Estate Market StatisticsWhat do our October 2010 Humboldt County, California real estate statistics look like? We seem to have started a downward trend in prices again in Humboldt County, California. The number of active homes on the market, while not a huge number, is creeping up in relationship to previous years. We now have 677 homes active on the market; that’s much closer to 2008 levels than 2009 levels. And Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-8123487236190100572010-10-20T23:30:00.000-07:002010-10-21T10:33:25.241-07:00A Lesson for Victorian Homes from the Eureka, CA EarthquakeMany of you will recall that Eureka, California made national news on January 10, 2010 when a 6.5 earthquake rocked the city. We counted our own blessings, and were promptly forgotten by the rest of the world, when 2 days later when a 7.0 earthquake destroyed the country of Haiti. We in Eureka were truly fortunate, as there were no injuries, and relatively little property damage. My family lives Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-52906355412318043482010-10-08T16:42:00.000-07:002010-10-08T16:42:08.288-07:00Humboldt County, California Real Estate Statistics, September, 2010What is the state of the real estate market in Humboldt County, Califorina? Our "Active" homes, while starting out the year lower than last year, crossed over 2009 in August, and have been tracking slightly higher than last year since. While this certainly isn't bad news, it does neutralize one of the good pieces of news we had through the first half of the year. If real estate inventory is down,Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-28834411366530271122010-08-06T14:32:00.000-07:002010-08-06T14:32:41.684-07:00Getting Ready to Sell Your HomeSo you're going to sell your home and you need to get ready. What do you do? The first thing is to call me ((707) 499-7111) so we can sit down together, evaluate the value of your home and your goals in selling, and then plan a strategy to accomplish those goals. After that's done, you can start on this list.
1) Go through your home room by room, inside and out, with 2 pads of paper. On one padJeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-7019572569136746502010-08-03T11:30:00.000-07:002010-08-03T11:32:51.730-07:00July 2010 Humboldt County, CA Market StatisticsThe statistics show that July was a good news/bad news month for the Humboldt County, CA real estate market. First the bad news: inventory is up and sales are down.
As with the rest of the country, the expiration of the federal home buyers’ tax credits has created a lull in the market, with many people that would have bought in July deciding to buy in April and May to take advantage of the tax Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-61388606097185667422010-07-16T18:12:00.000-07:002010-07-16T18:12:28.931-07:00Should I Use a Broker, a Realtor, or Someone Else?Who should you use to represent you in a real estate transaction? An agent? A broker? A Realtor? Here's a brief explanation of real estate agency.
An agent is someone who acts on behalf of another person. A real estate agent acts on behalf of his client to buy or sell real estate. In California, the "agent" is the agency for which the individual "agent" works. I am an agent, but I work for the Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-58098362211607159572010-07-14T13:45:00.000-07:002010-07-14T13:47:16.339-07:00How Much Is My Home Worth?Clients always ask me, “How much is my home worth?” The first step is remembering that neither you as the seller, nor I as the real estate agent, have the power to make your home sell for a certain price. It is the market that determines the fair market value of your home. What is the market? It is the price at which 2 buyers are willing to argue over your home. How can you ascertain what that Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8970226574018667167.post-51145601512279256802010-07-06T17:38:00.000-07:002010-07-06T17:39:26.014-07:00June 2010 Humboldt County Real Estate Market StatisticsThe numbers are in, and our real estate market statistics for June 2010 here in Humboldt County, California are hanging in there. Our "Active Homes," while rising, are still staying below the levels of the last couple of years. “Normal” for this time of year is up to around 650; we’re above that at 709.
Our level of "Sold Homes," 89, is as high as it's been in 2 years. The combination of Jeff Raganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15459217690475365198noreply@blogger.com0