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The Real Estate Corner Desert Market Update

The Real Estate Corner Desert Market Update NUMBER OF SALES Home sales are up Valley-wide. The total three-month sales are up 2.9%. On a city by city basis, six cities show higher sales, with three; Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs and...

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Palm Desert Golf Cart Parade

Palm Desert Golf Cart Parade 2018 Sunday, October 28th from 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. It’s time to kick off a new season in the Desert with the Palm Desert Golf Cart Parade! This years theme is “Celebrating our Super Heroes” Our communi...

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Top 6 Summer Staging Tips

SUMMER STAGING TIPS Did you know that more than 50% of the desert home sales happen during the summer months? The desert summer real estate market is as hot as it is outside; knowing how to present your home for sale will be an important...

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Summer Desert Market Report

Summer Desert Market Report  – Median home prices rose for the 8th straight month. Up 9.6% from last year. The hottest cities for sales by volume were Palm Desert (233), Palm Springs (213), La Quinta (156), Indio (131), Rancho Mirage (...

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What the Dodd- Frank Rollback Means for Real Estate

What the Dodd-Frank Rollback Means for Real Estate On May 22nd, Congress passed reforms to the Dodd-Frank Act, the massive financial reform bill enacted in July of 2010 in the wake of the 2008 US financial crisis. The current bill could...

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Train Day at the Living Desert

All Aboard!  It’s Train Day at The Living Desert, featuring fun events including A Scavenger Hunt,  Train chats, Train Adopts, and more! Train Day is centered around the 3,300 linear feet of track at the Garden Railroad with a train...

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Concerts in the Park Palm Desert

Enjoy Cool Summer Evenings in Palm Desert – Music in the Park We’re kicking off the Summer Season in the Desert with Live Concerts on the Terraced Lawn at Palm Desert Civic Center Park.   Every Thursday throughout the month of May M...

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The Real Estate Corner

Market Watch Fall 2017 Here in The Real Estate Corner, we’re keeping an eye on the Desert Real Estate Market. Leading Economist, Michael McDonald, is one of the principals in Market Watch, LLC. Michael along with his partners, study real ...

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Home Sale Negotiations

HOME SALE NEGOTIATIONS Home Sellers Want the Highest Price and Home Buyers Want a Deal.  How Can They Ever Find Common Ground?   THE TUG OF WAR BEGINS! The foundation for any negotiation starts with the data, the black and whi...

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