Lakewood Real Estate News

(12/6/08, by Dave Emerson) Today I’m writing not as a Realtor but primarily as a native Southern Californian who’s lived here all of my 58 years, most of them in Lakewood, starting at age 1.
Every now and then it hits me what a very special place I’m privileged to live in. Today’s one [...]

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Knowing school district lines in Lakewood is trickier than it seems. In our case, if the home was just three tenths of a mile to the south or to the east, it would have been in the Long Beach school district. 200 yards to the east, & we’d have been in a third district. The lines were drawn sixty years ago, and are a little tricky.

“Lakewood City” was the name of a tract on both sides of Carson west of Bellflower Blvd. Two thirds of the “Lakewood City” tract and MLS area are actually in the city of Long Beach. Yet dozens of listing agents list dozens of Lakewood homes as being in “Lakewood City” when they’re actually miles away from there. That’s only one of the most common mistakes.

When a home’s listed in the wrong area, it’s invisible to any agent who’s searching for it under the area it’s actually in. Yet I routinely find that about 35% of Lakewood homes are listed in the wrong MLS area of Lakewood. You’d think an agent who was going to make thousands of dollars if his listing sold would spend $5 for a MLS map to be sure it was listed in the right area. . . but you’d be wrong! That $5 mistake could cost his seller thousands of dollars, or even a sale.

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