Sweet Digs’ Sharp-Eyed Readers Ask The Important Questions

Two readers of this blog raised interesting issues that are worth sharing with a wider audience — not least because I can supply an answer to one of them.

Reader Pop asked whether original list prices and subsequent new/reduced prices are tracked officially anywhere. Or, as she put it, “Is that information purposely hidden in the way real estate markets work, so that buyers can’t surmise how truly “motivated” (read: panicked) sellers might be?”

I’m happy to report that, along with some other cool tools, Redfin’s “new improved” service includes a “Listing Price History” for every house it lists (like the one below for 2 Somerset Place in Berkekey:

Secondly, reader and Rockridge dweller BJ would like to suggest Redfin reconsider its stated boundaries for his her beloved neighborhood — another fancy new Redfin feature is neighborhood delineations on its maps — see map below.

While acknowledging that “the borders of a neighborhood are even more nebulous and debatable than the borders of a city”, he she suggests we start by looking at the map produced by the Rockridge Community Planning Council (below).

I happily toss this question out into cyberspace. (Something tells me this one could run and run…)