Coachella Valley Blog

Hello and welcome to my Coachella Valley Blog. Here you will find fun and exciting news and information about the desert cities and events along with any local real estate deals you should know about.

The National Association of Realtors is doing something atypical — directly reaching out to consumers with little-known facts about housing. NAR’s new website – www.housingmarketfacts.com — is designed to give homebuyers and sellers information that illustrates the value of real estate as a long-term investment.

WATCHING THE GAME - A 30-second TV ad run during Super Bowl # 1 (held on 1/15/67) cost $42,000. For Super Bowl # 42 (to be held 2/03/08), a 30-second TV ad will cost $2.7 million. Today’s cost reflects annual price inflation of +10.7% over the last 41 years. 93 million viewers watched last year’s game (source: USA Today).  

SUPER BET - on the Monday after the New England Patriots and the New York Giants won their respective conference championships to qualify for Super Bowl #42, the Patriots were made 14-point favorites by the odds makers. In the previous 41 Super Bowls, the favorite has won 30 times (source: USA Today). 

The 20th Anniversary of the Frank Sinatra Countrywide Celebrity Invitational tournament launches Tuesday, Jan. 29 with a “Guess the Number of Golf Balls” contest at the Countrywide Mortgage office, 73261 Highway 111, Palm Desert. Read the full story here.