Ken's Blog

In the past sixty years or so, Americans and Huntington Beach home owners have made a shift from the practicality of their parent's generation to the preference of their own. For many people, size, status and sparkle took precidance over strength, stability and savings. Unfortunately (or fortuna...

Who lives here, Popeye the sailor man or Jack Sparrow? As I was doing my normal Huntington Beach Real Estate research this morning I came across an article from the OC Register's Huntington Homes column about a very interesting listing. I'm normally all about interesting properties especially th...

  I've been a dog owner most of my life and my pets have been a huge part of my life and a great source of enjoyment. Now that none of my companions are still around I thought I might take a break from the difficulties in owning an animal. Contrary to what I thought when I was nine, you're right ...

All of you in the Huntington Beach market, check out this video I just posted to YouTube about short sales and how they're NOT the majority of listings in Huntington Beach.                          There are a lot of homes available for standard sale right now, no need to worry about the extra wo...

There are lots of ways to get rid of your old things but one of the most fun just might the online auction. These days you can buy anything you can possibly image through an auction. So many online auction sites allow for unprecidented sales of items previously thought to be totally intangible. ...

I just blogged this on my own site www.dixonteamoc.com but I had to share it with all you active rainers too.      Last week a home for sale in Huntington Beach offered more than basic staging, this house included a reptile petting zoo! Ok so maybe it was just one reptile, but the three legged ig...

  No, this is not a buy one get eight free special. While looking over Huntington Beach Real Estate news this morning I read an article from the OC Register which took a look at luxury home listings in Orange County. I LOVE the article because it pushes my practicality buttons. According to the a...

Dixon Team OC Mythbusters: The Majority of homes on the market are NOT short sales.  Let's take a quick look at some of the data out there for the Huntington Beach market. You may be under the perception that the majority of the properties on the market right now are short sales or distressed pr...

  From Surf to Snow, you can see it all in Huntington Beach Let me start by saying I know there's no snow IN Huntington Beach. But that's beside the point. Huntington Beach is perfectly located at the northern end of Orange County which puts it just a short drive from California's most famous cit...

I get the feeling that most people looking at condos for sale in Huntington Beach don't often put much weight on what local businesses surround their potential abode. I think it's an important thing to consider when searching for a neighborhood you want to live in. This week I had several intera...