Buying A San Diego Home Without Losing Your Mind Or Your Shirt August 2013 | Page 2

Five Tips To

Successfully

Manuever Today's Market

Strategy

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Stay On It With Current Data

Most newspapers and media sources talk about reports like Case Shiller, Core Logic and even Trulia. Even though the information is accurate, it is reflecting 3 month old data. How do you stay ahead of the market? Look at CURRENT data such as how many homes were listed for sale this week? How many homes closed escrow this week? What was the average price per sq foot for a particular zip code this week? What homes were listed today? How do you find current data?

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an Diego saw a 12%

increase in values in 2012 and over 20% in 2013. But don’t freak out, you didn’t miss the boat entirely. If you are in the market to “day trade” or “flip” then, you can feel free to kick yourself square in the keister. But, if you simply feel as though you would like to buy a home and you feel like now is a good time for you, there is still lots of upside today.