Serving Orange County since 1996
Sean Dezahd
| Broker
Serving Orange County since 1996
Lovely Whitesails at Mandalay Bay home in a picturesque location on the water close to the beach and Harbor in Channel Islands. This second story home features and open concept...
By Sean Dezahd | General
When you look for a new home, you may feel like its most important amenity is its school districts, or its square footage, or whether or not it has a big kitchen. But walkability? Yup, it turns out that millennials—or the generation aged 16 to 34—”prefer walking over driving by a substantially wider margin than… Continued
August 11, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
You may have noticed that the housing market in Orange County is hot hot hot. It’s so hot, in fact, that in some areas of Orange County, it’s near the pre-recession peak. These rising prices may have you wondering: Is there an end in sight? And while I certainly can’t predict the future (if I… Continued
July 9, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
We all know that Orange County’s housing market is really hot, and homes are expensive. But an interesting recent article in the Orange County Register by real estate reporter Jonathan Lansner argues that the average Orange County home is actually more affordable than your typical real estate index would have you assume. This is because while… Continued
June 9, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
Even dabblers in real estate have probably noticed that the market is smokin’ hot. How hot? Orange County, California, currently has the fifth-hottest real estate market in the U.S., according to numbers recently released by Trulia.com and reported by the OC Register. Indeed, 59 percent of homes listed on Trulia are off the market within… Continued
April 23, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
Good news for sellers and those interested in the general wellbeing of the economy (which is, obviously, pretty much all of us): Homeowners who lost their homes during the financial crisis, which started in earnest in 2007, are beginning to trickle back into the housing market, according to a recent report by the Wall Street… Continued
April 15, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
For every listing I receive, I always offer to throw a one Mega-Open House. I use the word “Mega” here because the open house is meant to be big with a capital “B”—much bigger than your everyday open house. I invite all my past clients and everyone in my geographic farm, which consists of the… Continued
April 8, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
Traditionally, spring is a great time to sell your home, with the market being especially hot in spring over the last two years in Orange County. Here are three reasons to sell your home this spring. 1. There is less competition—for now. If no new homes were put on the market going forward, it would… Continued
March 31, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
I don’t know about you, but I love South Coast Plaza, which is in Orange County, California. Although I’m not a big shopper, there’s something about the place that just makes me happy. Maybe it’s the mall’s outdoor canopies, which are made of soft artificial lights that glow in the twilight like dew-laden spider webs…. Continued
March 24, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
The media tends to give millennials, or adults aged 34 and younger, a bad rap, painting them as self-absorbed, unemployed Instagram users who are unwilling to start at the bottom of the corporate ladder and who are A-OK with living in their parents’ basements for the rest of their lives. (Uh, “Girls,” anyone?) When it… Continued
March 17, 2015
By Sean Dezahd | General
If you’re like me, when you drive past the decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, its two enormous hangars stir up romanticized images of the heyday of aviation, when Howard Hughes and the Rocketeer were pushing the envelope above the clouds. You just know there were some secret, Nazi-destroying missions that were hatched inside… Continued
March 10, 2015
