Vacation Rental for Sale in Indio, 11 beds/8 baths on 1.3 acres. Indio Vacation Rental for Sale:  Offered turnkey furnished and with current bookings for $4,100,000.  This one is a wow!  Literally walk from the house to the Polo fields, home of the world famous Coachella Festival and Stagecoach Festival grounds.  Located at 81871 Sandy Ct., Indio, this impressive estate is known as Seraphina.  There are no gates, but there is a $110/mo. HOA, but the community is completely short term rental friendly.  Call local agent, Kim Kelly at 760-285-3578. Seraphina in it ..read more

Interior and exterior needs to be clean and clear! Sellers:  Prepping your house for sale. Just because you love your house just as it is, doesn’t mean it is in it’s best condition to bring in the most buyers!  There is definitely a pre sale thought process that you need to do, especially when the market softens as it is now.  Make your home stand out.  If you are looking to buy or sell in the Coachella Valley, give local agent, Kim Kelly a call at 760-285-3578. 5 Important Things to do BEFORE you list Clear it out!  That means remove all the knick knacks from ..read more

La Quinta Cove; 1575 sf, 3 bed/2ba high in the cove. COMING SOON! La Quinta Cove;  Coming soon!  The La Quinta Cove, a non-gated, non golf course community located in one of the most beautiful coves in the Coachella Valley.  Surrounded on the West and South by mountains and trails, the La Quinta Cove still offers some of the best priced real estate in the valley.  If you are looking to buy or sell in the Coachella Valley, give Kim Kelly a call at 760-285-3578. This cute home was built in 2002, has a gated front entry courtyard.  It doesn’t have a pool, but a cou ..read more

Coachella Valley’s most expensive properties! Coachella Valley’s most expensive homes.  Let’s take a look at the top tier prices for our Coachella Valley cities.  The real estate market is kind of stuck right now, but I do not see prices dropping.  I do see sellers waiting to list their properties until the end of the year, and I see buyers being very firm with their offer prices.  I think the high Interest rates have hit sales for sure, and I also think buyers and sellers are waiting to see what happens with the elections.  The high end real estate market for A ..read more

Sales are slower in the Coachella Valley right now; good time for sellers to carry! What’s selling in the Coachella Valley???  This is a crazy market right now.  There are so many factors at play in the real estate market right now.  First, the election.  I’ve found during my 23 years of selling Coachella Valley real estate that every 4 years, the market gets stuck.  Why?   Nobody knows for sure, but I think some buyers are waiting to see if there will be tax cuts coming, and they are also waiting to see what happens with the wars.  Then add the e ..read more

Ferris Wheel at the Coachella Music Festival! Coachella Festival is ON!  When  you are a local, you dread the festival weekends, but you also LOVE the festival weekends.  Dread..well, the traffic, the grocery stores are jammed, lines everywhere, traffic circles that get stuck, just lots and lots of people and movement.  The great side is that most everyone is happy, or looking happy as they hang out with their friends in fantastic outfits, phones buzzing, singing and laughing, and I mean on the streets..not just festival grounds!  I also LOVE the energy created ..read more

Equestrian Estate becomes Coachella event site:  I’ve been a Coachella valley resident for about 40 years now, first as a part timer, then a full time desert rat.  In my past life as a polo professional, I had been a guest on the Merv Griffin show.  He did a show about women who were successful in typically male fields.  What an experience!  What a kind, very funny man.  He shared with me at the time that he had a ranch in the Coachella Valley where he would come to be with his horses and to relax.  Fast forward, and that former Griffin equestrian estate ..read more

9.7 acres on the corner of Monroe/Avenue 62 Organic Date Farm, just listed!  What a sweet opportunity to own a small (9.7 acres) organic date farm in the Coachella Valley!  This date farm is located on the corner of Monroe and Avenue 62 in Thermal.  There are approximately 374 producing Medjool date trees and 118 shoots.  There is a reservoir on site for Ag water, and electricity to site.  If you are looking to buy or sell in the Coachella Valley, give local resident and realtor, Kim Kelly a call at 760-285-3578. This date farm is really easy to get to here in t ..read more

5 things for local realtors to keep in mind Top 5 things consumers want in a new property:  Full disclosure..these 5 things came from a survey taken by Coldwell Banker.  I’m not a huge believer in surveys because let’s face it; most of us don’t even answer our phones!  But..I do like reading them and I figure there is always something interesting and pertinent to my real estate business.  Keeping up on various data, reports, surveys, and of course social media helps realtors keep up on changing ideas.  Can’t hurt!  If you are looking to buy or sell real estate i ..read more

Madison Club in La Quinta offers spectacular views! Madison Club; La Quinta Community.  This is a stand alone community.  Meaning there is nothing like this ultra luxurious golf club in the Eastern Coachella Valley.  Ultra prestigious and private, the Madison Club is entered off of Avenue 52, directly across from the world famous polo fields.  Celebrities, athletes, political figures, and other high net worth individuals are choosing the community for their families.  If you are looking to buy or sell in the Coachella Valley, give local resident and realtor, Kim ..read more