The Hardest Month to Sell a Desert Home (And What to Do About It)
If you own a second home in the desert and live on the coast, you have probably noticed the market has a rhythm. The valley fills up in winter and spring, and it empties out in summer. That rhythm matters when you decide when to list. The short version: the slowest stretch for buyer traffic tends to
Which Coachella Valley Cities Have a 24-Hour Emergency Room, and Which Ones Do Not
The Coachella Valley has nine cities. Three of them have a hospital with an emergency room open 24 hours. The other six do not. If you are choosing between La Quinta and Rancho Mirage, or between Palm Desert and Palm Springs, that is worth knowing before you pick a street. Here is where the emergenc
Will Boomers Selling Flood the Housing Market? What 13.9 Million Homes Means for La Quinta and Palm Desert
If you are in your sixties in a desert house and you have been waiting for the right moment to sell, you have probably seen the headline by now. Something like a silver tsunami, or thirteen point nine million homes about to hit the market. It is a real number from a real analysis. It is also being r
What a Month of Rising Rates Actually Costs a La Quinta Buyer
If you are planning a move to La Quinta or Palm Desert and you have been watching rates, the last month has been the wrong kind of interesting. The 30 year fixed average has risen in every weekly print for the last month. Here is the sequence, straight off the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Sur
September 2026 Industry Roundup: Who Controls Your Listing?
The Fight Over Your Listing Reached My Own MLS The biggest industry story this month landed in my own backyard. On September 8, Compass sent a demand letter to CRMLS, the large Southern California MLS that covers the Coachella Valley. Compass wants CRMLS to stop fining agents who publicly advertise
Should You Wait for Lower Interest Rates to Buy in the Coachella Valley? What Waiting Since 2023 Actually Cost
At the end of December 2023, the average 30-year fixed mortgage was 6.61%. Almost every buyer I spoke with that winter said the same thing. Rates had just touched 7.79% in October, the highest in 23 years, and everyone expected them to fall. So they waited. This morning, the 30-year fixed is 6.95% t
Fee Land or Leased Land? How to Tell Before You Make an Offer in the Coachella Valley
You found a place in the valley you actually like. The price looks reasonable for what you are getting. Then you read the listing again and see two words that were not in any of the other listings: land lease. If you are buying in La Quinta or Palm Desert, I can save you some worry right now. Then I
California's Zone 0 Rule Is About to Take Effect. Does It Apply to Your La Quinta or Palm Desert Home?
If someone has told you that you need to tear out everything within five feet of your house, they are partly right. They may also be completely wrong about your house specifically. That second part is the one nobody is saying out loud, so I want to start there. What Zone 0 actually is Zone 0 is the
What Happens to Your Home Value If the Golf Course Behind You Closes?
You paid for the view. Maybe not on the closing statement, and maybe nobody said it out loud, but you paid for it. A home backing a fairway costs more than the same home one street in. That is true in La Quinta, it is true in Palm Desert, and it has been true here for fifty years. So the question