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Is It Time to Sell Your Costa Mesa Home?

Whenever the U.S. economy is booming, there are naysayers who view it as terrible news. It’s not surprising since economists can disagree about just about anything and point to statistics that prove their point.

A recent CNBC report provides a golden example. It’s one that, if you’re inclined to think it’s time to sell your Costa Mesa house anyway, would reinforce that thought. It ran under the gloomy headline “Housing is providing another in a line of troubling signs”—the signs were those “pointing to an economic downturn.”

The report elaborated on a finding that compared home sales statistics from a recent period with those that preceded coming recessions. To the analyst author (Fed economist William Emmons), the result indicated that an…

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Inspections Dampen Costa Mesa As-Is Listing Dramas

Of all the attention-grabbing terms to be found in Costa Mesa listings, the audacious “as-is” ranks right up there near the top of the deck. Intentional or not, it carries a pronounced dramatic aura. Contractors see Costa Mesa “as-is” listings as calls to action. House flippers’ pulse rates quicken when they come across it. For most typical prospective buyers, on the other hand, the same term triggers furrowed brows and a hasty move onto the next listing. “As-is” carries shades of meaning with legal implications, but in general, it simply signals to the world that the seller is not interested in improving the offered property. If something needs to be fixed, it’s up to the next owner to handle it. For that reason, Costa Mesa as-is listings are…

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Costa Mesa Real Estate and Blockchain: Coming Our Way?

Last year, Costa Mesa readers started reading about real estate sales transacted in bitcoin. Since Costa Mesa real estate changes hands through transactions involving six- or seven-figure dollar amounts, the idea of actually completing sales in the mysterious new digital coinage was novel enough to get a lot of attention. “Will Bitcoin Revolutionize How Real Estate is Bought and Sold?” asked NAR.com this past February. The answer was maybe, but probably not in a meaningful way—at least not any time soon. So Costa Mesa homeowners needn’t feel that they are likely to be left out of some momentous advantage if they don’t constantly track bitcoin’s value gyrations. But there is a related phenomenon that could prove to be more of a Costa Mesa real estate…

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THE L3’S OPEN HOUSE’S THIS WEEKEND ON 6/9 & 6/10

L3 REAL ESTATE FEATURED OPEN HOUSE’S

2737 Cardinal, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

1210 Conway, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

20501 Callieburn, Huntington Beach
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

3058 N Westhaven, Orange

Sun 1-4 PM

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3 is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa, offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3 mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3 was originally formed to offer personal, concierge-level service as an alternative to the large, nationally based real estate companies. From…

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Despite Momentum: It’s Prime Time to Sell Your Costa Mesa House

As with any momentous decision, settling on when to sell your Costa Mesa house can take time—and even then, acting on the decision can be slowed by extraneous factors. Who doesn’t have local obligations to deal with and Costa Mesa friends and neighbors who’ll need to be reassured that your relationship isn’t going to be irredeemably severed? Acting on a decision to sell your Costa Mesa house can seem to be the real estate equivalent of moving an ocean liner with a single tugboat: very slow going. Even so, there are persuasive reasons why you might want to move the process along more quickly than momentum would dictate. Recently some of those reasons were laid out in Realtor, the official magazine of the National Association of REALTORS®. It’s…

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THE L3’S OPEN HOUSE’S THIS WEEKEND ON 6/1, 6/2, & 6/3 !

L3 REAL ESTATE FEATURED OPEN HOUSE’S

2737 Cardinal, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

2064 Phalarope, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

20501 Callieburn, Huntington Beach
Fri 10:30AM -1 :30PM & Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

3058 N Westhaven, Orange
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3 is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa, offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3 mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3 was originally formed to offer personal, concierge-level service as an alternative to the large, nationally based…

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Selling Costa Mesa Homes: Is it a Sellers’ Market?

If you’ve been contemplating selling your Costa Mesa home, if you came across last week’s USA Today article that found “home sales are slowing,” it might make you think twice. You couldn’t be faulted for jumping to the conclusion that slowing national sales means tough sledding for selling Costa Mesa homes—but that takeaway is almost certainly wrong. The reasons are tied to the nature of the market—specifically, to this year’s Costa Mesa market. It is true that in some slow markets, sellers find themselves at a disadvantage. That’s the case when a sales slowdown is due to a national economic outlook that makes consumers nervous, or to financial turmoil like runaway inflation, or to other general conditions that drive down the number of eager…

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THE L3’S OPEN HOUSE’S THIS WEEKEND ON 5/26 & 5/27 !

L3 REAL ESTATE FEATURED OPEN HOUSE’S

2737 Cardinal, Costa Mesa
Sun 1-4 PM

2064 Phalarope, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3 is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa, offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3 mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3 was originally formed to offer personal, concierge-level service as an alternative to the large, nationally based real estate companies. From its small beginnings of only two employees, L3 has grown to a full staff of 20 serving over 300 clients a…

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A Boring Palette Helps Sell Your Costa Mesa Home

It may sound paradoxical, but one proven way to sell your Costa Mesa home is to make it boring…or at least, a little bit more boring. The principle here stems from buyer psychology—specifically, the difference between a house that would make a great tourist attraction and one whose first impression is more apt to lead to a sale. At first blush, the flashy version might seem to be not only memorable, ¬¬¬but more valuable as well. But that’s not typically true. A potential buyer can remember your house in two different ways. One memory might be of striking red walls and purple tile that call to mind images from an architectural magazine. That sort of memory will be vivid, but it doesn’t necessarily help to sell your home. A different type of memory…

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THE L3’S OPEN HOUSE’S THIS WEEKEND ON 5/19 & 5/20 !

L3 REAL ESTATE FEATURED OPEN HOUSE’S

2737 Cardinal, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

2064 Phalarope, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

5722 E Stillwater Ave #15, Orange
Sat & Sun 1-4pm

3012 Buchanan, Costa Mesa
Sat & Sun 1-4 PM

  We are built on a philosophy of Heritage & Hustle L3 is a full service real estate agency with a regional office located in the heart of #CostaMesa, offering a wide-array of custom services to meet their clients’ needs with roots in the community since 1976. It’s L3 mission to provide trusted, convenient, responsive service to ensure clients enjoy their real estate experience. L3 was originally formed to offer personal, concierge-level service as an alternative to the large, nationally based real estate companies. From its small…

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