Think mortgage application can feel a bit like the wild west? Well, the long arm of the law might be stretching a bit further in the coming months. A new bill designed to combat trigger leads just passed the House and is expected to pass in the Senate as well. While there’s still some road […]
When we started publishing these absorption rates every month, we’d never in a million years have predicted we’d hit a point in which the neighborhood with the highest surge toward a seller’s market was also our lowest absorption rate for the month. But here we are. Looking at June as a whole, it sure looks […]
Last August, we had the honor of interviewing one of our own JohnHart Real Estate professionals, the incomparable Jon Barrist, as he was elected to the prestigious President-Elect position of the Greater Palm Springs REALTORS® organization. We expected to follow up with him in 2026 after he’d had time to acclimate to his official presidency, […]
As if to say “keep the challenges coming”, over 20 JohnHart Real Estate agents earned coveted spots on the prestigious 2025 RealTrends America’s Best Real Estate Agents List in a year fraught with industry adversity. For those unfamiliar with the RealTrends America’s Best Real Estate Agents List, it ranks the top 1.5% agents in the […]
After a meeting closed to the media, the National Association of REALTOR®s (NAR) has agreed to suspend its controversial no-commingling MLS guideline. Alternately known as the “segregation rule”, the guideline was frequently criticized as being insensitive to the client experience by making it more difficult to search for non-MLS listings. Following a June 3 vote […]
If you’ve stepped away from our absorption rate analysis for a few months, you could easily look at May’s stats and think nothing’s really changed. It’s true, most of our neighborhoods have spent months hovering roughly around the same absorption rate range. Here’s a town hopping up a percentage point or two. There’s a neighborhood […]
Where does your neighborhood stand after a particularly divisive month? Despite national economic concerns, April was a remarkable month at JohnHart Real Estate as our agents doubled down on their determination, selling significantly more homes than in March. And that inexhaustible grind was felt in April’s absorption rates. Following January’s unanimous drop, February’s unanimous surge, […]
The agents on this list just delivered a better quarter than anyone would have the right to hope for in the current market. Sure, changes in the real estate landscape are nothing new to our seasoned agents. But even acknowledging this, we’ve stepped into a new market, one unlike anything we’ve seen before. The world […]
I’m a firm believer that politics has no place in our role as service providers to our community. But when political changes impact our industry, we as professionals can’t simply ignore them. This isn’t a political opinion, nor an attempt to sway political perspectives. It’s a call to do what’s needed to best serve our […]
It almost feels like March is an apology to the prospective homebuyers of the Greater Los Angeles area for February’s unanimous surge into the seller’s market. It was mostly a kinder month for the buyers, showing drops closer to the buyer’s market in all except four of these communities. And two of those just treaded […]
