Lake Tahoe's North & West Shore poised for solid April Real Estate Sales

On the California side of the Lake, the pace of sales was stronger in the 1st quarter of 2020 than it had been in 2019, and the median sales price of a single family home on the North & West Shore rose 4 percent to $670,000. 

Overall sales volume was down 25 percent over the same period in 2019. But those numbers were heavily slanted by one whopper of a sale – Mark Zuckerberg’s $37 million purchase of the Brushwood Estate (pictured below) in January of 2019, which accounted for two-thirds of last year's 1st Quarter sales volume.

By the first week of April, we had 18 homes under contract at the Lake, a few of which had accepted offers after the state shutdowns. …

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What Buyers and Sellers Need to Know about Coronavirus and the Tahoe Donner Real Estate Market

Coronavirus fears aside, the pace of real estate sales in Tahoe Donner was slightly better for the first three months of 2020 than it had been in 2019. Total Q1 sales volume rose to $33 million, with 7 more homes selling during the first quarter of this year than last. While we did see some cancellations in March due to Covid-19 concerns, six Tahoe Donner homes sold in the first week of April, including this new custom home near the Tahoe Donner Golf Course that sold on April 8 for a little over $1.4 million (within 4 percent of its original asking price):

Tahoe Donner Home Sales

  • 47 homes sold in Tahoe Donner from January to March this year (up from 40 during the same…

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Buyer Opportunities at Gray's Crossing

Gray's Crossing Golf Course Homes

Gray’s Crossing, a newer golf course community of some 450 homes near downtown Truckee, saw 4 homes sell in the first quarter of 2020, a nice rebound from the first three months of 2019, when there were no sales. All of this year’s sales are homes that had gone into contract by late February or earlier, well before Tahoe and the rest of California was shuttered.

The community really hit its stride in 2020 with the median sales price rising to $1,695,000, and 43 home sales (a record number of sales never before seen in Gray's). One went under contract on March 14, the day before Tahoe’s ski resorts were shut down. The other – a stunning new home on the golf course at $1.9 million - had an accepted offer on…

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What Buyers and Sellers Need to Know about Covid-19 and Tahoe | Truckee Home Sales

This was a tough column to write because I know so many of you have suffered hardships as a result of the unprecedented fallout from the Coronavirus epidemic, and I don't want to appear be tone deaf. Those of you who know me, know that my motto is service above sales.

So many questions have rolled in about what 'exactly' all this means for the Tahoe Truckee real estate market, that I felt my 1st Quarter column needed to go granular. As you scroll down, you'll find global statistics, along with Links to specific communities, so you can zoom in the areas you're focused on.

Lake Tahoe Real Estate

March was a roller coaster ride none of us had ever seen before, and with the news and the…

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Incline Village Homes Still Selling Despite Covid-19 Closures 

Incline Village Lakeview Home

With hotels shuttered and the beaches yet to open for the season, Incline Village is unusually quiet this Spring. But the real estate market in this lakeside community on Lake Tahoe's north shore is still cooking.

Incline Village closed out the 1st quarter of 2020 with 36 single-family home sales, 12 homes selling per month on average. But significantly, the Incline real estate market moved into April with 18 homes under contract to sell. And more than half of them had accepted offers in mid-March, following the breaking news of the coronavirus pandemic and the March 15 closure of Tahoe's Ski Resorts.

In the midst of stock market volatility, and statewide shelter in place orders,…

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