Hi folks! Here are last month’s Big Bear Real Estate statistics. As of this morning, the inventory has dropped to 447 single-family residences in the Big Bear MLS, along with a handful of condos. If you click on the link for the MLS, you’ll see that we switched our idx providers to a more user-friendly search that can be selected … Continue reading →
It’s that time of year already! Snow Summit opens tomorrow and Bear Mountain is scheduled to open for weekends only until Dec.7th, starting next Friday. Below are last month’s Big Bear real estate statistics. It was a busy month for what is usually one of the slower months of the year, but keep in mind that most of the listings … Continue reading →
With the beautiful color of changing leaves and our first dusting of snow at the higher elevations last weekend, it’s definitely beginning to feel like fall in Big Bear! As we normally mention at this time of year, we are at the point where inventory is still relatively high (503 single-family residences in the Big Bear MLS) and activity drops … Continue reading →
Hi folks, Below are the Big Bear real estate numbers for the last full month of summer. Even though summer is almost over, the market is remaining hot, with the busiest September we can remember in our 11 years as Realtors up here. They are always adding more events so that spring and fall aren’t as slow as they were … Continue reading →
As we rapidly approach the beginning of our summer selling season (usually right around the 4th of July), here are the Big Bear single-family residence stats for last month. As of this morning, the Big Bear MLS residential inventory is at 474 active properties on the market. As usual, many sellers put their houses on the market in the Spring … Continue reading →
With the summer season quickly approaching, I thought I would send out a quick breakdown of the properties that have sold so far, since the beginning of the year. As usual, the vast majority of homes sold were in the $500K and under range. That’s usually the range that most people are able to afford for a second home and … Continue reading →
We hope you’re having a great year so far! Sorry we haven’t sent out any emails yet this year, but we’ve been in Hawaii for the last 6 weeks “tending to” some vacation rentals that we own out that way. With the inventory being as low as it has been in Big Bear, we figured it was a good time … Continue reading →
It’s been a little while because we were gone last month on a cross-country trip to visit family, but here are the most recent statistics for Big Bear real estate single family sales. Since the acquisition of our local resorts by Aspen was finalized in early August, our inventory has dropped over 35%! There are only 392 single family residences … Continue reading →
Hi folks! Here are the monthly stats for Big Bear real estate for the month of July. Sales prices continue to rise and are expected to do so even more, especially with the recent purchase of our local resorts by Aspen/KSL. Below is a link to an interesting graph from Trulia, which shows that, in Big Bear Lake (92315), the … Continue reading →
As summer kicks into full gear, we are currently at 538 Single family residences on the market. Last month, there were a total of 147 sold properties and another 207 in escrow (Pending/Back-up). As prices continue to rise closer to the Lake and slopes, the more distant areas are increasing even more, with Big Bear City averaging more than $200/sqft … Continue reading →
Here are last month’s Big Bear Real Estate statistics. Sales continued strong for the last full month of Spring and the average $/sqft remained elevated in Big Bear Lake and Moonridge following the Aspen and Rathbun Creek/Moonridge Redevelopment project announcements. Area #Sales Avg. Sale Avg.$/sqft SP/LP DOM BBC 30 $235,298 $193.33 99.5% 87 BBL-general 17 $378,322 $251.84 95.0% 115 BBL-lakeview … Continue reading →
Hi folks! After receiving our annual “Mother’s Day snow” this past Sunday (the early May/late season snow that we receive almost every year), the weather is warming back up to match the housing market. Late April was unseasonably warm (both the weather and the market). Part of this appears to be caused by the increasing pace of the housing market, … Continue reading →
Hi folks! Here are last month’s single family residence statistics for the Big Bear area. As usual for the last month of winter, the emphasis was closer to the slopes and the $/sqft in Moonridge jumped to almost $260/sqft! There were 4 shallow-water lakefronts that sold (great news, since that particular sub-category hasn’t moved much until the Lake went up … Continue reading →
Hi folks! Here are last month’s lists of “sold” and “pending/back-up” properties. Sales in the first month of Spring continued to be very strong and were especially high, given the historically low inventory. In total, there were over 300 properties either sold or in escrow! If you didn’t have a chance to watch our latest episode of HGTV’s “Log Cabin … Continue reading →
Here are the Big Bear real estate stats for February 2017. Although it was a short month, the number of sales remained relatively high. As usually happens at this time of year, there were significantly more sales closer to the slopes than closer to the Lake (the $/sqft on the one lakeview property was considerably lower than normal because it … Continue reading →