Featured image credit: Sansculotte When it comes to houses for rent Los Angeles architecture buffs would adore, the supply can be pretty tight. That’s not to say we lack architectural wonders. Few other American cities can give you Spanish Colonial Revival bungalows across the street from a historically significant Craftsman home neighboring a modern brutalist […]
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The Top 25 Agents of Q2 2025
Making it onto the list for the JohnHart Top 25 Agents of the Quarter shows that an agent truly understands their market, their clients, and their community. And while the numbers speak for themselves, they don’t tell the full story. How could they fully explain the strong connections these agents have undoubtedly built in their […]
Trigger Leads in Danger as Bill Advances, Promising More Security to Mortgage Application Process
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 […]
Absorption Rate Analysis: June 2025 – Is This the Sign That We’re Moving Into an Overall Buyer’s Market?
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 […]
Exclusive Interview: Jon Barrist Talks Balancing Home, Career, and Politics as He Accepts Early Presidency of Greater Palm Springs REALTORS®
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, […]
22 JohnHart Agents Make 2025 RealTrends America’s Best Real Estate Agents List
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 […]
NAR Votes in Favor of Suspending Controversial No-Commingling MLS Listing Guidelines
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 […]
Absorption Rate Analysis – May 2025: Sometimes Stable Terrain Deserves a Closer Look
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 […]
Absorption Rate Analysis – April 2025: A Busy Month Influences a Divided Housing Market
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 Top 25 Agents (and Top 5 Associates) of Q1 2025
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 […]