The Wendell Turner Blog
Buying guides, market reports, snowbird tips, and neighborhood spotlights from 30 years of Southern California real estate experience.
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City GuidesA 30 year broker's read on Cathedral City: how the Cove, the Dream Homes grid, and Desert Princess trade differently, what the price tiers really look like around the $475,000 median, and the four things relocating buyers get wrong.
A 30 year broker's close read on Bella Vida in Indio: 79 homes built 2003 to 2006, big lots on fee land with no HOA dues, a split school district, and what living two blocks from the Empire Polo Club really means in April.
Short-term rental rules in the Coachella Valley change at every city line, and in Palm Springs the certificate is tied to the owner rather than the parcel. Here is what that means for anyone buying with rental income in the plan.
A 30 year broker walks through what the current numbers for the Coachella Valley actually say, which figure tells you who has negotiating power, and why the valley average almost never describes your street.
Buyers rarely lose a deal over the inspection itself. They lose it over the calendar printed inside the contract. Here is how contingency periods actually count, how removal really works, and which desert and mountain items quietly eat your days.
The offer price is not the number that closes escrow. A 30 year broker walks sellers through how the appraisal really works, what a reconsideration of value can and cannot do, and the five choices you have when the number lands short.
A 30 year broker's read on Palm Springs: fee land versus lease land, how Old Las Palmas, Vista Las Palmas, Movie Colony, Twin Palms and Deepwell Estates actually trade, and the four things relocating buyers get wrong.
A 30 year broker's inside read on PGA West in La Quinta: who really lives there, what the housing stock is like from $475K condos to $6M estates, and the HOA and club math most buyers miss.
The Coachella Valley real estate calendar is upside down compared to the rest of the country, and the January through April stretch changes the math for both sellers and buyers. Here is how a 30 year broker reads the window you are standing in right now.
Desert Hot Springs has the best rent-to-price math in the Coachella Valley and real duplex and triplex inventory. A 30-year broker walks through what these properties cost, what they rent for, and what to check before you write an offer.