Laguna Beach Median Home Price Tanks in April

The April dataquick numbers are in and things are still tanking for Laguna Beach home prices.
The median single family home price in Laguna for April was $1.16 million, down a whopping 31%.
May and June should pick up a little given it is the summer buying season.
The economy and the lack of good financing is just killing the homes priced above the median, for which one would borrow more than the current $729,000 conforming jumbo limit. This pressure will continue past any little summer jump and things will slide further as we go toward December.
If you put in an offer, make sure the offer price is low enough so that you don't end up holding the bag for these future losses.

Cartoon House - Now Asking $1.2M - Down 57%

In December 2007, I identified this listing as ridiculously overpriced at $2,800,000.
Nailed this one. At 940 Hillcrest in Laguna Beach, it hasn't sold and is now listed at $1,200,000, a whopping 57% reduction in asking price. Of course, that is still a lot for a CARTOON HOUSE.
Presumably, this property is being sold for the value of the lot. Nonetheless, I think the term CARTOON HOUSE fits in just fine with the snake oil most Laguna Beach and Newport Beach real estate agents are selling.

Barton Rollert of Coldwell Banker has this listing. Rollert's credibility is scraping bottom since the past listing for this property asked for $2,800,000, and obviously this was way, way off the real value.

Barton, can I buy your CARTOON HOUSE with CARTOON MONEY?

This shows how much trouble a buyer could get into by giving any weight whatsoever to a Coldwell Banker list price. If someone would have paid $2,800,000, or anything close, we now know that the buyer would have been stuck with at least a $1,600,000 loss based on the present list price.....