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2026 Blog Posts Pricing Your Laguna Niguel Home in 2026: Why 11 Days and 81 Days Are the Same Market Hey neighbors, the fall market is doing something that looks like a contradiction. Orange County listings now take an average of 122 days to go pending, the longest stretch since January 2019, and yet most of the homes that actually closed in September sold in under two weeks at full asking price. Both numbers come […]
2026 Blog Posts Is It Lowball Season in Laguna Niguel? How Offers Are Actually Getting Accepted This Fall (2026) Is It Lowball Season in Laguna Niguel? How Offers Are Actually Getting Accepted This Fall (2026) Hey neighbors, on paper this fall makes a strong case for writing a low offer. Orange County listings now take an average of 122 days to go pending, the longest stretch since January 2019, according to Steven Thomas’s latest […]
2026 Blog Posts Flood and Fire Insurance: A South Orange County Guide South Orange County got hit from two directions in one week. On October 9, a tidal surge pushed knee-high water across a two-mile stretch of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, and the city declared a local emergency that same day. On October 16, the Norte Fire started near San Clemente and burned into San […]
2026 Blog Posts HOA Dues and Mello-Roos in South Orange County Two buyers can tour the same $1.4 million house in Laguna Niguel and end up with monthly payments that differ by several hundred dollars. The loan is rarely the reason. It is the HOA dues, and in some neighborhoods a Mello-Roos special tax, that never appear in the listing price. Laguna Niguel’s median sale price […]
2026 Blog Posts Inherited a Home in Laguna Niguel? Prop 19 Explained If you inherit a parent’s home in Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo, San Juan Capistrano or Aliso Viejo, the property tax bill that follows tends to catch people off guard. California’s Proposition 19 rewrote the rules for parent-to-child transfers on February 16, 2021. Most families learn how it works after the transfer instead of before. The […]
2026 Blog Posts Helping Your Kids Buy a Home in Orange County: What Parents Should Know in 2026 My family, recreating a photo we first took in 1993. Same crew, same dorky sweatshirts.. Hey neighbors, this one is for the parents, and the grandparents too. That is my own family in the photo up there, a recent recreation of a picture we first took back in 1993, and getting three generations into one […]
2026 Blog Posts Buyers Are Negotiating Again in Orange County: What That Looks Like in Laguna Niguel (2026) Hey neighbors, For about four years, “negotiating” in Orange County real estate mostly meant deciding how far over asking you were willing to go. That era is quietly ending, and the newest national and local numbers agree on it, so let’s talk about the concessions buyers are actually getting right now, and what that means […]
2026 Blog Posts Should You Trade Your Orange County Condo for a House in 2026? If you own a condo in Orange County and a house has always been the plan, this market is quietly asking you a question, and it deserves a better answer than a shrug: move now, or wait it out? It’s a sharper question than it looks, because Orange County isn’t really one housing market right […]
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2026 Blog Posts Prop 19 Property Tax Transfer in South Orange County A homeowner who bought in Laguna Niguel in 1998 may be paying property tax on an assessed value near $300,000, while the house that closed down the street last month is taxed near the $1,395,000 median. That gap is why a lot of long-time owners in South Orange County stay in a house that no […]
2026 Blog Posts Fire Zones and Home Insurance in South Orange County CAL FIRE published updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for Orange County cities in March 2025. The Laguna Niguel City Council adopted the new zones by ordinance on June 3, 2025. Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo, and San Juan Capistrano went through the same state-required process. If a parcel landed in a High or Very High […]

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