Three questions a surveyor always asks, and nobody prepares for
The roof, the wiring and the drainage, in that order. Finding the three dates before the survey is booked has saved two of our sales this year.
Notes from the office
Notes on selling, and on the coast.
Short pieces written by the partners between viewings: what a figure did, what a survey found, and what we would do differently. No market predictions we would not print in the report.
The notes
Newest first
The week seven price cut, and how to avoid needing one
A reduction is read as an admission. Of the houses we saw cut this half year, the median took a further fifty-one days and still sold under the
What a dawn photograph does that a drone cannot
Every house on this coast has been shot from the air. Almost none from the doorway at six in the morning.
Summerland is no longer the cheaper Montecito
At $1,120 a square foot it has closed most of the gap in three years, and the buyers arriving now are different.
Square feet that survive a survey, and the 9% that usually do not
We measure before we write. Across eleven houses the measured area came in 9% under the printed figure.
Eleven days early: how the private list changes the first offer
Four of this year’s eleven sales were agreed before a public entry existed. The first offer came in higher, and faster.