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An inherited house on this coast: the court's clock, the family's pace, and the as-is question.
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Downsizing on this coast, without owning two.
From the family house to the ocean-view residence, in the order that keeps you from holding both.
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$750M+
career sales
15
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$47M
record La Jolla sale represented
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How do we avoid owning the family house and the next residence at once?
By starting at the other end. The next address is the scarce item, so the sequence is set by what exists there, not by a rule about selling first.
Once we know the building or the street you would move to, the family house gets a date, a price and a preparation list. Not before.
What is genuinely scarce?
The one-level residence with a view, an elevator and a well-run association. There are not many of them on this coast, and they do not wait for you.
The house you are leaving is the part you control. It can be prepared, photographed and priced on your schedule. That asymmetry should drive the entire plan.
What do we tour first?
The place you would actually live. Not three of them, and not the aspirational one you already know you will not buy.
Then we price the family house against that number, so you make one decision with both figures in front of you instead of two decisions six weeks apart.
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