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06/28/2026

A Huntington Beach listing. 30 to 40 buyer groups through the door each day of the open house weekend. Five offers. Sold $100,000 over asking.

Here's what made the difference, and it cost less than $10,000:

→ Painted the kitchen cabinets (out with the dated dark brown, in with a warmer tone)
→ New tile backsplash in the kitchen
→ Added recessed lighting throughout
→ Deep clean
→ Professional staging

That's it. No major renovation. No gut job. Just smart, targeted improvements that made buyers walk in and immediately feel something.

The sellers took our advice. The market rewarded them for it.

Not every seller does. And those listings? That's a different, and longer, conversation.

If you're thinking about selling, let's talk before you list. The prep work is where the profit is made.

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06/20/2026

Something has shifted in buyer behavior, and if your agent isn't paying attention, it's costing you.
Buyers, especially millennials, are not picking up the phone to schedule private showings.

They're waiting for open houses. We're seeing it consistently across our listings: minimal activity day one, then a flood of buyers the first open house weekend.

Which means if your agent isn't committed to doing open houses, you're missing the buyers who are most ready to purchase.

It's not just a nice-to-have anymore. It's how deals get made right now.

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06/12/2026

If you felt like the market went quiet over the holidays, you were right. December and January were slow. Really slow.

But there's a marker we watch every year: the Super Bowl. Once it passes, buyer activity consistently picks back up. And this year was no different.

The buyers who were looking in January? They've been purchasing. New buyers are stepping in. And right now, anything under a million in a good area is moving.

If you've been on the sidelines waiting for the right moment, the window is open. Don't let it close on you again.

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06/05/2026

Let's put this to rest: the market is not crashing like 2008. Not here. Not anytime soon.

Has it softened? Yes. Are there more buyers and sellers moving around right now? Yes. But the fundamentals that caused 2008: overleveraged loans, synthetic financial products, mass foreclosures, those aren't what we're looking at today.

Here's what is happening, though: people who are waiting for a crash are sitting on the sidelines while equity builds for everyone else. Every month you wait is a month of appreciation, principal paydown, and tax advantages you're not collecting.

You're not being patient. You're pricing yourself out of the future.

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05/30/2026

One of the most important lessons I've ever learned in investing: don't confuse a bull market with brains.

In grad school, I pitched a furniture stock; my theory was that tax refund season would drive purchases. They thought it was a dumb idea. They funded it anyway.

The stock dropped 20%. We caved under pressure and started selling. Then their earnings call dropped. Up 40% for three days straight, basically to the dollar I called it.

And I thought I was the smartest guy in the room.

Spoiler: I was not. I got lucky. And then I lost money proving that to myself.

The market will humble you if you let one good trade convince you you've figured it out. Learn to tell the difference.

Marterra.com | 949.910.1042

05/26/2026

That big, scary real estate headline you just saw? Read past the first line.

National data and local markets are two completely different conversations. What's happening in Phoenix or Austin has almost nothing to do with what's happening zip code by zip code in Orange County.

And here's the thing people miss: when you're looking at sales data for a specific zip code, you might be working with fewer than 30 transactions over an entire year. One outlier sale can completely skew the numbers and make a healthy market look broken, or a soft one look strong.

We saw a wave of people leave California during COVID. Some are trying to come back now and finding themselves priced out. That's a local story. The national headline won't tell you that.

Before you make a decision based on what you read, talk to someone who actually knows the zip code.

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05/24/2026

A perfect weekend in Corona del Mar, as told by someone who actually lives it:

Start with a beach walk. Always. Then breakfast at Rendezvous, a little French bakery that feels like almost nobody knows about, which is insane because the omelets, the breakfast sandwiches, the whole vibe? Absolutely sensational.

The owner is French, warm, and will probably come talk to you. Go there.

Hit the Farmers Market at Marguerite and PCH: great bread, flowers, dips, and tomatoes that are genuinely worth writing home about.

Wind down at El Cholo for happy hour, or Sidecar if the marine layer rolls in. Then catch the sunset from the roof.

That's the day. That's life.

If you've been on the fence about Corona del Mar, this is what you're missing. DM us and let's talk about what it actually takes to get here.

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05/21/2026

My dad told me early on: look at the cars in the apartment complex you're thinking about renting. How people take care of their stuff tells you a lot about how they take care of the community.

The same principle applies to multifamily acquisitions.

We found one of the best-performing pockets in Costa Mesa by looking at the green strips along the sidewalk. Immaculate. No dog waste. Well-kept. That block? Consistently one of our strongest investments.

The block next to it? A little different. Deals are harder to make work there.

Sometimes the best market research isn't in a spreadsheet, it's in paying attention to what's right in front of you.

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05/19/2026

Okay, she said it herself, she could write a love letter to her post office. And honestly? That's exactly the kind of thing that tells you everything about a community.

When you can walk to dinner, have a margarita, and walk home. When the sunsets are so good, you've photographed over 3,000 of them. When the ocean is in your rearview mirror every single morning.

That's not just a home. That's a lifestyle.

Corona del Mar has that quality, and it's the kind of thing that doesn't show up on a Zillow listing. You have to live it to understand it.

If you're curious about what life looks like here, DM us. We'll show you around.

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