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Okay - I know I was going to feature only Italian inspired homes this week, but this one is so pretty! With Mt. Shasta and Lassen Views! 4,800 sqft, 5 Bed,5 Bath, 6 Car Attached Garages! Stunning, Quality Home on 5+ level, private, gated, fenced, acres! Granite counters w/backlit onyx trim, soaring ceilings, 4 Heat & A/C Units, Thermador stainless steel 6 burner stove, double ovens, great room, fireplace in master suite. Area for an elevator. Per PG&E 12 month avg. bill is $146 / month total gas and electric! - Just the Electric bill alone is reason enough to buy this home! Doesn't it kinda remind you of Tara? From Gone with the Wind? Classic American style, in my opinion.

It's 7 days till I am on my way to beautiful Rome, Italy. - It's going to take me 22 hours total travel time to get there but so worth it! Can you tell I'm a little bit excited? I took the kids to the Sundial Bridge here last night, the Sundial Bridge is 217 Ft high. My first planned stop in Rome is Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The Dome at the Basilica is more than 450 Ft high. So, I was looking at the Sundial Bridge and just trying to imagine how high the ceiling is in St. Peters. I can't really grasp that so I just have to wait and see. I'll be sure to tell you all about it.

St. Peters

Sundial Bridge

Now, all of us here in Redding treat this Bridge with much respect and awe. We bring all our tourist friends here and show it off.  So, it's really not fair at all to compare it - I was just using the reference from the perspective view - in case anyone got snippy.

Alrighty, back to work - List your home for Sale NOW! - Call me! If your are looking to buy - DO IT NOW! - like that? 

Sellers! - We have a huge shortage of homes right now! If you want your home to get all the attention it deserves now is the time - you have no competition out there! 

Here are some stats that might sway you... Average sales price in Dec 2011 for Shasta MLS - $165,174 - Average sales price in Dec. 2012 - $189,693 - 14.8% increase. These are just averages but take it from the girl in the trenches - Things are looking real good for sellers right now.

Buyers! There are proposed changes rumored out there that will impact your ability to get financing! If you thought it was tough now, wait and see how tough they can make it. Rates are awesome right now but who knows how long that is going to last. If you were waiting for the bottom, you missed it. Get in now! - I'm not saying there will never be a downturn again, I'm not saying that the "shadow inventory" isn't lurking out there somewhere. But, if you find a home that you love and it works for you, don't think that there is something better out there. (It's like a Spouse - Once you find one - Stop thinking there's a better one.)

Only 624 Residential listings in Shasta MLS today.  246 of those in Redding. 12 New listings today and 13 new Pendings - they are selling faster than we can list them!

Have a Great Day!
                             

Happy New Year!

            

Amazing River, Mt. Shasta & Lassen Range Views! This newly remodeled Tuscany Style home is truly a rare find! Incredible hardwood floors are found in the gourmet granite kitchen & through out the dining areas. Romantic master suite offers a beautiful granite & tile bath along w/a veranda to take in the views! Area offers Boat Launch, Pool, 3000' Private Airport, Equestrienne, 108 Acre Lake

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Let's take a look at that for a moment...3000' Private Airport... Private airport...PRIVATE Airport.. So I was thinking  "How can you have a private Airport of your own?" - then I looked closer and it is a gated community featuring a Private Airport - which is still pretty darned good - actually Amazing - but for a moment in my blondness I was thinking -"Where is there room in this house for an Airport? - Is it over the garage? - not mentioning... how in the heck are you going to deal with all those International Travelers coming through your home! And if it's Private, Why do you need an air"port"? Okay, I admit I was really perplexed. Now the agent is going to call me and I'm going to have to tell her how blond I am, because I called her to figure it out.

For the next few weeks, I will be featuring Italian inspired homes in our area - "Why are you doing that?", you may be wondering... Well, it's because - drum roll please....I'm Going to Italy!!!!!! Life is good and I am truly blessed because my oldest daughter loves me and misses me and sent me tickets to visit her in Rome!
On January 15th, I will be flying to Los Angeles, catching a flight to Paris, looking briefly around the airport in Paris and then hopping a plane to Rome - or as they say in Italy, Roma. So far, I have scoped out a few things on my list of must see's and working on learning a few needed Italian phrases. Evidently, according to my daughter, the way Americans pronounce certain phrases are incorrect and she is helping me to learn the correct way. I always (when pretending to be Italian) would say GRAT-ZEE, This I have learned is wrong... She says it Grat-Zee-A (long A sound). I'm pretty jazzed to go and see all the sights there including all the Piazza's and the churches. I'm pretty much a people watcher so I will be doing a lot of that. I'm bringing my computer so I will be able to blog from there. It's my dream to be a travel writer so we'll see how good at that I really am. I probably should stick to what I know though - Real Estate - and just have fun.

I have been extremely remiss in my blogging here, but the holidays always take so much time and there is so much to do.Wah Wah. There, that's my lame excuse. 

What's going on in Redding Real Estate - because really that's why you're here right? - Alrighty then. The market inventory is Awful! - We need more listings! You have to call me and list your house! - There are only 658 Residential listings currently available in Shasta MLS. 257 of those are in Redding. 
Since my last post, there have been 287 new listings, 298 Closed and 347 Pending. As you can tell, the 257 current listings are not going to last long at this rate. (Only residential listings included in these numbers).
Prices are going up as you can see on the chart below.

Time Period	Area	Average Sale Price	Average Price/SF	Price/SF 0 – 10 Yrs	Price/SF 10 – 30 Yrs	Price/SF 30+ Yrs
Q3 2011	Redding	195,797	107.01	128.68	115.07	87.89
Q4 2011	Redding	181,025	103.01	123.41	111.69	86.14
Q1 2012	Redding	191,593	104.80	137.12	108.37	86.49
Q2 2012	Redding	195,276	109.34	133.17	117.09	89.52
Q3 2012	Redding	205,356	113.74	133.47	121.67	95.86
Oct-Nov 12	Redding	224,047	118.23	141.51	126.83	97.33

Here's one of those nifty little charts I get from Bob Sprenkel, an appraiser here in town.

Have a Happy New Year - be safe - don't drink too much and remember Designate a Driver if you are going out.

Thanksgiving!

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Here is my new listing, just a great little starter home!





This adorable little 3 bedroom 2 bath home has more space than you think! Extra long driveway to two car garage plus 2 additional rooms off the garage and a workshop with laundry hook-ups! Natural gas hooked up to the property. It has a very nice little covered patio in the backyard.

It has happened, the holidays are rapidly approaching and full scale chaos is just around the corner. Thanksgiving is next week and the kids are coming home! - AAUGH! I'm not saying that I don't relish this chance to see the babies and the kids and have everyone all together, in fact that the very best part - the AAUUGHH is for all the work to do before this happens. You know what I'm talking about. The carpets have to be cleaned. The shower in the second bath which hasn't worked in months has to be fixed. Babies and toddlers will be in the house - which is definetly NOT childproof! - I don't worry about them breaking stuff, I worry about them eating stuff. Stuff that I would never consider eating, babies and toddlers will eat.
I did seriously consider taking a suite at a nearby resort, but ruled out that option. The only other option is to clean like mad, crawl around my home and put stuff away and clean it again.

One year, when I was a newly familied young person, my mother decided that we would all just rent a three bedroom in a resort in Oceanside. We had our Thanksgiving dinner at this really posh resaurant and me, my husband and our baby girl joined with my parents and yournger sister eating at this huge table. My beautiful baby girl didn't like her dinner. In fact, she hated it, she hated the restaurant, she probably hated the little fluffly dress I had her in and she wanted to make sure the whole restaurant knew it. She THREW her plate across the room like a champion frizbee player. Yup, everyone in the restaurant knew.

The thing about Thanksgiving is that real families can be really messy. Literally and metaphorically.  That was the last time I took my Thanksgiving public. So, here we are.

Usually, Thanksgiving at my house is pretty tame. We all sit around eating too much and talking all at once, I look around the table at all the different personalities and all the beautiful people who sit around me and I feel so very blessed. I'm always the one who gets all emo when we say our thanks. Thanksgiving really is my favorite holiday. No expectations really, feed everyone and be together. That's all.

So, although I still have a lot of work to do at my house this week, I know it's all going to be worth it.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

Meanwhile Real Estate keeps going. Only 714 Active, residential listings in Shasta MLS, 287 of those in Redding. If you want a bargain, there are only 12 homes priced under 100K.