Valentine’s Day 2014 – Fun Things to Do!
Fun Things to Do Around Long Beach this weekend
SAILING SHIPS COMING TO SAN PEDRO IN AUGUST
San Pedro will again host the “Tall Ships Festival” in 2014, scheduled for August 20th thru the 24th. A dozen ships from all over the world are expected to sail into the Port of Los Angeles for the 5 day festivities.ship
The timing of the event will help to showcase the new $40 million dollar addition to San Pedro’s waterfront; the “Downtown Harbor Project” featuring a new harbor and new landscaped town square, still under construction just north of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum.
More than a quarter million people are expected to turn out for the festivities. A port spokesman said that the port is drawing more and more visitors each year with all of the new activities and events taking place there.
How The SuperBowl Win Started in Hermosa Beach
This was an unusual event. But then the Seattle Seahawks are an unusual team. Led by an unusual head coach Pete Carroll. At team will mirror their coach and the Seahawks certainly do just that. How many NFL players would take the time to go through the kitchen at the health food store, “My Fit Foods” and thank the cooks who fed them all week while they were there?
Lets be clear: NFL offenses don’t usually work out together in April on a beach hundreds of miles from the team facility. The players came from all over the country. There regimen consisted of lunging, sprinting and skipping across Hermosa’s notoriously soft sand. This challenged the players’ lower bodies in ways many of them hadn’t experienced. And then there was the weight training circuits designed by Subin, owner of the The Yard, and the weight training was tweaked based on feedback from the players. Their meals were catered by a health food shop up the street. After lunch they would make a short drive to the field-turf at Mira Costa High School, where Wilson would throw and 20 receivers, backs and tight ends caught.
And this is how The winning of the super Bowl began in The South Bay.
Manhattan Beach – $1Million Homes are Selling like Hotcakes!
It’s official … Manhattan Beach had the most $1,000,000 + homes sold in 2013 per Gregory Wilcox, Daily Breeze writer. Manhattan Beach recorded 439 million-plus sales — the most in the state in 2013 — edging out Hillsborough in Northern California’s San...If you want to Sell your Home-Now is the Time for Top Dollar
If you are holding off selling your property but you do want to relocate. You might want to consider putting your house on the market now. The reason being the home inventory is down because of the following reasons.
While prices have been rising, sales activity has not followed. In December, only 308 single-family homes were sold, down nearly 9 percent from a year earlier, as inventory dropped.
There is only six weeks supply of inventory on the market, The supply and demand rule is in motion.
One of the reasons for a lack of supply is that there is a low inventory of distressed homes on the market.
This along with homeowners, many who have been underwater for the last few years and who plan to sell are waiting for getting the benefit of rising prices.
Real Estate Sales Up in 2013
According to the National Association of Realtors homes sales in 2013 were the highest level in seven years.
Sales totaled 5.09 million, the best performance since 2006, when sales totaled 6.48 million. The median price of an existing home rose 11.5 percent last year to $197,100, the highest in eight years.
This is more proof that our real estate market is on the upswing and all is getting healthy once more.