Real Estate Features Archive

Steady as it Grows

Home prices are higher, but there is concern that the Fed’s Quantitative Easing program might create another price bubble or that rising mortgage rates of the last few months will stop the housing recovery.

By Vic Cooper and Mike McDonald

Coachella Valley Housing: Buy, Sell or Hold

In this presentation Market Watch explains in detail the Distress Housing Market Model used to predict the 20% price gain in the Valley’s housing markets in 2012.

Mike Mcdonald

Baby Boomers Meet Desert Housing

The Market Watch seminar on April 26th begins by explaining to us the 8% price gain in the median price per sq. ft. of a Valley home during the first three months of this year.

Mike Mcdonald

Market Watch — Waiting to Exhale

Results for the first quarter of 2013 show the continuation of the strong housing recovery begun last year.

By Vic Cooper and Mike McDonald

psst! — The Cool School

This oasis dazzles in the center of Los Compadres Equestrian Estates, surrounded by 1.5 miles of French-graveled walking paths.

psst! — Hot Property

A personal hot tub on the 17th fairway of one of golf’s finest courses distinguishes this mountaintop mansion on Rocky Creek at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert.

Valery Neuman Shares Tenets of Success

Valery Neuman is one of the Coachella Valley’s most successful high-end real estate professionals, closing in excess of $1 billion.

By Jim Powers

Frank Sinatra's Villa Maggio on Market for $3.995 Million

Frank Sinatra's Villa Maggio estate above Palm Desert is for sale. The late actor named the property after a character he played in, “From Here to Eternity”.

By Jim Powers

Coachella Valley's New Housing Inventory Begins to Slowly Recover

Right now the battle to obtain new housing in the Coachella Valley is fierce because there is very little new inventory. But indicators show construction will take off in the next two years.

By Jim Powers

Real Estate - Power to the People

As the Coachella Valley housing recovery continues to evolve, the area’s median price per square foot declined slightly in February. Of the nine desert cities, six grew and three declined.

Vic Cooper and Mike McDonald