Hi folks!

Below is a link to this week’s “What’s Up at 7000ft”.  Highlights include the Old Miner’s Day Parade, Summer Theater in the Village, and another free Summer Movie on the Beach – “Cars 2” (think “drive-in” at the beach).

Also, here are a few links that you might find helpful.  First, we’re always getting calls from people who are looking on secondary and tertiary websites such as Zillow, Trulia, etc. and finding properties with outdated prices or statuses (we get calls about properties that sold a year ago).  The reason for this is that these websites buy their data from someone that bought their data from the MLS where the data was originally inputted.  That’s why the actual MLS is ALWAYS going to be the most current source of up-to-date information,  The MLS is where the listing agent actually enters the data and makes any changes; and sometimes it can take months for those changes to trickle their way down to Trulia, etc.  Also, these websites (especially Zillow) don’t seem to know the difference between “active” and “active contingent”; so they continue to show short sale properties as “active” for months after an offer has been submitted to the bank.  If you have already registered on our new BigBearTeam.com website, you can access the Big Bear MLS directly, just by logging in on the bottom left of the homepage.  If you registered on the old version of our site and would prefer to go directly to the Big Bear MLS, you can do so here: Big Bear Real Estate MLS Search.   Also, for those of you who get daily or weekly email updates from us, you can access the MLS directly by clicking on any of those links and then “Property Search”.

Finally, here’s the most recent data on our local real estate market.  While websites like Trulia are horrible for up-to-date information on specific properties, they can be very good sources of information on market trends.  As you can see, in 92315, the median sales price is up 12.5% in the last 3 months and 1.4% year-over-year: