Recent content by ravi

Was the home underpriced to begin with to draw attention though and get a dozen offers? Don’t know the specifics on this home but it’s a very common strategy in parts of the Bay Area. Many homes are underpriced and they end up selling a few hundred thousand above ask price but the ask price is...

Personally love a neighborhood that’s walkable (retail, restaurants, coffee shops that’s a 10-20 min walk, a lot of young families live in these areas) and has a mix of housing- apartments (yes apartments), condos/townhomes, SFRs. You then get to see young families, kids, a nice mix of people in...

LOL, you really want proof that you are a perma bear and that you said 10 years ago prices were expensive? Is that really not true? Just be true to your conscience and admit it yourself that you said that. You believed prices were expensive ten years ago, now they are $1-1.5MM more, and then...

you say current high price (agreed on rates) environment but given you are a perma bear, are you saying ten years ago we were not in a high price environment? Because isn’t that what you said and there is proof of that on this forum. 10 years ago, if you search these forums- there were comments...

But you posted the data from 2024-2026 for a very specific reason right? I was just curious if data from 2016-2026 would also help make your case? If it helps your case you can gladly post it? And no response to my comment last week in the 2026 happiest cities in America post. Wonder why?

were prices cut by that much even in 08?

Why data from only 2024-2026? Why not 2016-2026?

Agree from an in state tuition and value perspective, UGA is best for kids in GA, UA is best for Arizona kids, UC’s are best for kids in CA and so on. But my point was more about optics/desirability since you specifically mentioned “investment”. After all just like real estate, optics matter...

What’s the out of state and international student percentages in UGA vs the top UC’s, this could be a proxy to see how desirable these schools are from an “investment” perspective.

I am looking for a 4BD plus a loft, ideally a detached home since they usually have bigger backyards, so been obsessed with the market ha. $1.5M+ you mention sounds right. Let’s say $1.6M for a 1,700 SF 4 BD home, that’s $940 PSF, so upper end of the range I mentioned.

Ha agreed in Irvine it will be expensive but the asking price is already $750 PSF which is inflated because the SF is less than 2K SF and the lot size is less than 3K SF. Taking into account the small lot size and total SF, it can’t be that much more expensive in Irvine. Maybe $850-1,000 PSF...

Yes rent is far less than the mortgage, but when you think of a renter who are you thinking of? The image I have in mind is a middle class family with 2 kids living in a 1or 2BD Irvine company apartment in a space that feels a little tight. You want a bigger space but rent is a lot more for a...

Agreed on the number of high paying opportunities in the bay area especially in tech. It’s not even close and If you have to be in the office in the Bay Area, you have no other choice. There are some tech high paying jobs in OC but a lot more white collar jobs in finance, law, health care, etc...

A theory- Fremont’s renter rate is significantly lower than Irvine's renter rate. Could that have helped Fremont in these rankings? Sure renting may not necessarily make someone unhappy automatically but outside of a few exceptions (someone who has plenty of savings for a down payment and can...

Thoughts on this one? https://redf.in/8AMctQ Video from the listing last year since photos are not uploaded yet for the new listing Asking price is almost $2.5MM when it sold for $2.05MM in august. It’s not a flip from a renovation standpoint based on the pictures from the last listing in...