The post previous to this was about water heater Deadband. This post is related in that it shows us another way that deadband affects use of hot water and the safety concerns posed by deadband. How difficult can it be to figure out what the water temperature in a home is? In the State of Washington, …
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Let’s compare the Silver Lake and Echo Park real estate market in the 1st Quarter 2012 against the same period last year. At present it is difficult to accurately split the two markets as the MLS combines them. However, I hope soon to be able to do that since Echo Park and Silver Lake are two distinctly …
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Century City is a commercial and residential community on the westside of Los Angeles. The borders are Santa Monica to Pico and Century Park East to Century Park West. Once the back lot of Twentieth Century Fox, this is where Century City derived it’s name. Century City is home to many luxurious high and low …
Let’s compare the Brentwood real estate market in the 1st Quarter of 2012 as compared with the same period in 2011. Brentwood Single Family Homes Number Sold: 43, a 30.30% increase over the same period in 2011. Median Price: $1,800,000, a 27.21% increase over the same period in 2011. There are 100 active listings. With …
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I was asked today by a Los Angeles home buyer “what do you mean when you say the home has to appraise.” When a buyer makes an offer on a property they are relying on their Realtor® to have done a competitive market analysis (CMA) based on previous sales in the area. However, the CMA is …
Siding materials need proper clearances between finish grade and the siding—regardless the type of siding. This requirement is not just to prevent damage to the siding—–it serves a couple of other functions as well. Maintaining proper clearances reduces access to wood structures behind the siding by wood destroying insects or damage from water that might …
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How is the Century City condo market faring? Let’s see how the 1st Qtr of 2012 compares with the same period in 2011. Number sold: 22, a 29.41% increase over the same period last year. Median Price: $738,700, a 26.27% increase over the same period last year. There are 76 active listings and with an …
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Following this weekend’s CicLAvia, Mayor Villaraigosa announced that Los Angeles will be starting a bike sharing demonstration project towards the end of the year. This program will be run by Bike Nation, which will install 400 booths with a total of 4,000 bikes. How does this work? There are many of these bike-sharing programs around the …
How is the Westwood real estate market doing this year? Let’s check out the 1st Quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year. The numbers are taken from the MLS/CLAW and are deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Westwood Single Family Homes Number Sold: 34 a 100% increase over the same period in 2011. …
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An article in today’s Los Angeles Times talks about the shortage of rental properties in Los Angeles and Southern California and predicts that rents will rise 10% over the next two years. Rents in many if not most area markets are already on the way up, and rental properties in Los Angeles What does this mean? …
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