Bad Pictures on MLS — Don’t Let This Happen to You

The moral of this story is: if you’re selling your home, make sure you know what pictures your agent is putting up on the MLS.
 Athol Kay, a realtor in Connecticut, writes a great blog, which I religiously read for the humorous “Bad MLS Photo of the Day”. These are actual photos that appear in MLS’s [...]

Pending Sales and New Listing for Mt. Carmel Area

Here’s what’s currently pending in the Mt. Carmel area.  Note the Days on Market (DOM) for each one:

524 Jeter – $989,000 – 3br/1.5ba – 11 DOM

271 Myrtle – $1,565,000 – 4br/2.5 ba – 10 DOM

1701 Whipple – $1,195,000 – 3br/2ba – 26 DOM

505 St. Francis – $925,000 – 3br/2ba – 18 DOM

77 Myrtle – $1,475,000 [...]

Using Zillow to Compute Your Home’s Value? Read this first…

Ok, so if you’ve ever used Zillow, you know that it’s a fun toy to see how much your neighbor/boss/co-worker/doppelganger’s house is worth.  Is it completely reliable? Let’s just say, it’s a starting point
Case in point. I was curious what Zillow thought the average $ per square foot was in Mt. Carmel.  I first did [...]

Fast, Cheap Rides and Carnival Food

Everything you could ever want in a school festival.  The annual Mt. Carmel Festival is coming April 25-27 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School (ok, shameless plug). 
If the rides aren’t enough to tempt you, there’s some pretty awesome Mexican food served up, games, bands, and more teeth-free carnies than you can shake a corn [...]

Current Mt. Carmel Homes for sale – Picks of the Week

Here’s some of the single-family homes currently for sale in the Mt. Carmel neighborhood. Any opinion stated here is purely the opinion of the author 
245 King St. – 2br/1ba – $846,500 – 14 days on market (DOM). Very charming home, and at 1220 sq. ft., a good size for a 2br.
153 Lowell St. – 3br/2ba – [...]

Recent Sales in Mt. Carmel

In the last 3 months, the following homes in the Mt. Carmel area closed escrow. Following that are some market averages for this area, which is, no surprise, holding pretty strong.  Is there really an “average” in Mt. Carmel, though? Probably not — in this broad mix of a neighborhood, you can maybe get a [...]

Welcome to the Mt. Carmel Blog!

Alrighty then, here we are, my second “hyper-local” blog, and on what is one of the more desirable neighborhoods in Redwood City: the friendly, tree-lined and family oriented neighborhood of Mt. Carmel.
I’ve got probably one of the longest running real estate blogs (since 2005) here on the Peninsula, the aptly named “The Gory Details ..of Real [...]