White in the garden.

These are wonderful little freesias that I planted a long time ago. They just keep coming up year after year......And they smell soooo good!! Here is a sweet little bunny hiding in the bushes getting ready for Easter.

Add in some white petunias and you have a great white garden..It is springtime in Cambria.

The weather here today is georgous!! Now at 5:30 pm it is 75 degrees!!!

I am doing an open house this Friday on Weymouth...I am baking fresh cookies!! Come by for cookies and to see a beautiful, ocean view home. Follow the Coldwell Banker signs.

I don't know why all my sentences have an underline. I guess that is the way blogger rolls.

Those little bunnies you see in the photo were at a friends house where I play Maj Jong. They are napkin holders that a friend of hers made..They are the cutest things I have seen in a long time..

By the way,,,I didn't win at Maj Jong. But I did have a lot of fun. The hostess made a yummy chocolate cake for our snack.

February Stats

The new market statistics are here for February. The average sales price for Feb. 2010 was $559,550. That's down from Feb. 2009 when the average sales price was $711,000. The average days on the market is 223, up from 144 last year at this time.
We have 22 pending in Feb and 15 new listings. That is all the good news for now. Back tomorrow with more fun and games.

Hearst Castle 1957

Here are a couple of pictures of me at the Hearst Castle in 1957 or so. My grandparents worked for the Hearsts and I got to go to work with them. My grandmother worked as a cook for the family. My grandfather drove the buggy that Mrs. Hearst used to go to town. He also took care of the horses.
I remember smelling the orange blossoms and seeing the HUGE kitchen.....all stainless steel!! Very impressive to a young child.

2009-2010 Survey of California Home Sellers.

Changes in family and employment status as well as adjustments to monthly mortgage obligations played significant roles in homeowners' decisions to sell their homes in 2009, according to California Association of Realtors "2009-2010 survey of California Home Sellers." According to the report, 67 percent of all sellers in California did so as a result of difficulties related to meeting their mortgage obligation.

March Update..... Real Estate Statistics

Well.....another rainy day in paradise!! I knew I should have bought that raincoat I saw. Every time I bought a raincoat....it didn't rain anymore. So I stopped buying raincoats and look what happened!! Over 20 inches of rain.
Here are some interesting real estate statistics for this year. As of March 1, 2010 there are 100 active listings in Cambria and San Simeon. This includes single family homes, condos and mobile homes. Since Jan. 1, 2010, 21 have gone pending and 18 have sold.
The average square feet of the pending homes is 1753. The average list price is $665,086 and the median list price is $499.00. They have been on the market an average of 162 days.
The 18 houses that were sold since the first of the year were on the market for an average of 174 days. The average sales price was $619,806 but the average list price was $657,203. They were larger houses in the fact that the average house was 2406 square feet. The selling price was 95.74% of the listing price.
The median listing price is $474,000 and the median selling price was $447,000.
Enough facts for now. Have fun and enjoy your evening.

I've learned that when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money, and the man with money ends up with experience!!