Ramesh Nyberg's Real Estate Blog

I think the cool weather is finally over. When the mangoes start looking good, that seems to be the indicator, right? And the mango trees are full. 

I wasn't sure when I would be saying this again, but it is starting to look like a good time to get your home on the market, if you need to sell. I'm still telling people that if you don't have to, then don't. But if it's a time for that lifestyle change, retirement home, whatever it is, then the stats I've been talking about the last few months are telling us that summer might be real good.

I'm not saying the asking prices are on the rise--there is still a significant amount of inventory and we haven't reached that tipping point yet. But if you need to sell, I'm saying now, as the serious summer buyers start their searches. They'll want to be closed and moved in before the next school year starts.

If you happen to be on Twitter, you can now follow me there, at rameshnyberg. I always find it fascinating how people communicate. There is this revolution going on with communication, an expansion so fast and so great that the spectrum of people who are alive today can sometimes be so far apart--there are people from my generation--let alone my parents---who still haven't bothered with email, and then there are my sons' peers, who are twittering, instant messaging, facebooking, and whatever else, as a matter of routine.

The immediacy of it is what is exciting to me: find a home for someone, take a picture from the driveway, and email it to a customer. Get a reply from them, and make an appointment to see the house, all from your mobile device, all in a matter of minutes. Makes me wonder what type of things my daughter will be communicating with ten or fifteen years from now.

Enough wondering--it's nearly 8am and I'm not out the door yet!