Lakewood Real Estate News

This is a blog written by two Lakewood Realtors with over 30 years combined experience working with Lakewood sellers and buyers.

Our goal is to give you a front-line perspective on what’s going on and what we expect to happen next in the real estate market in Lakewood, California.

We’ll also be putting up posts designed specifically to help Lakewood buyers, sellers, and homeowners, including a summary of some of the classes we’ve taught over the years for the city of Lakewood’s community service department. Such as our popular seller’s course, “How to Sell Your Lakewood Home for Top Dollar in 30 Days.” Or info from our buyer’s courses, including “How to Move Up to Your Dream Home,” “Fixers, Foreclosures, and Fantasies,” and “How to Buy Your First Home.”

We’ve been writing a similar blog for all of Southern California since last fall, but we’ve always wanted a blog that focuses on the community we’ve both lived and worked in for so long. For a look at some of our region-wide perspectives, you might want to visit SoCalRealEstateNews.com. There you’ll find over 50 posts, including our most recent projections post, “So Cal home price bottom near?” our post on “How we got into this mess,” and our thoughts on “Top 5 ways NOT to pick an agent.”

We’ve already got some stories about what’s going on in Lakewood right now, like “A Tale of Three Listings: The probate seller’s big mistake” and The “flipper” Realtor who didn’t think, both about recent activity on the same block in Lakewood, California 90712.

Now just a brief introduction.

Our lead writer, Dave Emerson, has lived in or near Lakewood since his parents moved in as original owners way back in 1951! Dave was only one year old at the time, so that “Lakewood Park” Model 19 was the only home he knew until he bought his own first home in Lakewood in 1976!

Dave grew up in Lakewood, attending Gompers Elementary, Bancroft Jr. High, and graduating from Lakewood High School in 1968 as class valedictorian. Fascinated by the process of buying his first home, in 1980 Dave began working part time as a Realtor for the same company and broker he has been with for the last 28 years. He obtained his broker’s license in 1982, about the same time he stopped teaching at Mayfair High to become a Realtor full time. Since that time Dave has been # 1 in sales out of over 500 agents in his firm seven years, and has been elected “Agent of the Year” by his peers four times.

Blair Newman was a winner of Prudential California’s Rising Star Award when our office’s mentor agent suggested Dave team up with him. Blair brings the perspective, energy, and technological savy of his generation to Dave’s many years of experience. Like Dave, Blair bought his first home in Lakewood, but that was just 3 years ago. Blair also was a teacher before becoming a Realtor full-time several years ago. Blair also happens to be married to Dave’s daughter, which makes this a genuine family business.

We intend to get new posts specifically dedicated to Lakewood real estate every few days, so you might want to click the RSS in the upper right corner to subscribe to the RSS feed for this site using live bookmarks. Your thoughts, comments, and questions are welcome, and we’ll do our best to answer or respond.

Thanks for visiting, and welcome to Lakewood Real Estate News, the real estate blog dedicated to the city of Lakewood, California.

How to contact us:

1. The “comments” section below is probably the easiest way to get in touch with us. It will automatically generate an e-mail, and we will respond either publicly or privately, which ever you prefer.

2. You can also call us directly at 822-SOLD. The area code is, of course, Lakewood’s–562.

3. You can e-mail us at RealtorDaveE at msn. (You know how to translate that to an e-mail address–”at” means @ and “msn” is followed by “dot com”–but those web crawling computers that love to harvest e-mails don’t.

4. You can write us at our office address, Blair Newman, Prudential California Realty, 11409 Carson St., Lakewood, CA 90715. It’s just west of the 605 freeway on Carson, across from the Long Beach Towne Center. But if you just drop in you probably won’t find us unless you call first–we spend most of our time in the field, and do most of our office work from our home offices.