With the official beginning of summer this week, the weather is beautiful up here in Big Bear with highs in the 70’s and awesome conditions on the Lake (up almost 9.5ft from last winter)!! Below are last month’s Big Bear real Estate stats. As always happens this time of year, the inventory has climbed considerably since winter (up to a … Continue reading →
Here are last month’s single-family residence Big Bear real estate stats. There were fairly large increases in $/sqft for Big Bear City, Big Bear Lake, Moonridge, and Sugarloaf. The lake level also continues to rise and as of this past Monday, we were only 9.33ft from full. That’s a gain of over 9ft already for the season, as the creeks … Continue reading →
Below are the Big Bear MLS single-family residence stats for the month of March. It’s that wonderful time of year when both the slopes and the Lake are open, so it’s a great time to visit! The Lake is up almost another foot and a half since our last email. Even though the creeks are still running fast and hard, … Continue reading →
Sorry it’s been a while, but we were in Hawaii at this time last month doing some work on our rental properties out there. Btw, we are planning on selling one of our Kona condos (studio) to buy a little larger unit, so if you know anyone looking for a good cash-flow condo in an oceanfront complex, just let us … 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 →
Below are the monthly Big Bear real estate single family residence statistics for the month of July. The inventory appears to have reached it’s peak for the year. We were at 537 single family residences last Monday and 540 this Monday. Since most sellers put their properties on the market at the beginning of the season, there are usually much … 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 →
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 →
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 →
As temperatures start to cool, the inventory has fallen to 551 Single family residences already. That’s about a 10% drop from the peak a month ago. That makes this the last chance of the year to buy a property while there are still a relatively good number of choices and get it on a rental program by Thanksgiving. Sales and … Continue reading →
Hi folks! As we head into the unofficial “last weekend of summer”, the Big Bear real estate market has been extremely active and we have already seen our inventory start to drop. As of this morning, we are down below 600 active single family residence listings already (a combination of a very hot market in August and the fact that … Continue reading →
Here are last month’s lists of “sold” and “pending/back-up” Big Bear real estate. The number of sales and escrows remained strong from the previous month and inventory seems to have more or less reached it’s peak for the year at 607 active SFR listings, as of this morning. This is about the same place we were with inventory at this … Continue reading →
