Corona & Prescott

three two one good morning good morning this is randall and diane bro here in the beautiful square in downtown prescott uh right side our little cowboy outside the uh we are enjoying this gorgeous gorgeous spring morning yeah absolutely flower here little flower yeah enjoying spring enjoying spring spring has sprung yeah getting out of the quarantine for a few minutes getting out of the quarantine for a few minutes a lot of people here easy to find a parking place easy to find a bench very pleasant yeah very pleasant we wanted to send out a lot of encouragement to all of our friends out there who watch uh we’re all in lockdown yep um but we have a lot of encouraging news yeah we do yeah we ran some stats to see what’s going on with real estate here in prescott and uh for the month of march year over year there were actually 13 more closings in prescott and prescott valley than the year before which we were surprised i was surprised i guess a lot of people are trying to close before the virus hit or whatever i don’t know considering everything that’s going on i was very very encouraging yeah and at this point we’re halfway through april as we’re filming this yes and we are in a dead heat with last year exactly just almost exactly the same number of closings uh as last year so you know we have and a lot of uh activity over 900 homes are on the market about a third of them are pending yes uh which is a balanced market very healthy all the numbers look great so still happening here yeah it’s still happening despite all of this terrible kind of doom and gloom and it’s kind of sad someone’s playing their music yeah somebody’s playing music live we love when they do that whenever we’re filming yeah perfect perfect we are super encouraged yeah we are after we kind of ran the numbers and looked at everything and um now we are the people who bring in buyers from out of town which is a big driver in this market in prescott so and a lot of our buyers come from california california uh has been shut down for the virus they really clamp down hard on on the people in california so the governor has shut down the governor however our governor here in arizona has deemed real estate essential business essentials so so we’re still moving forward uh a lot of our california buyers who were scheduled uh for march and april have uh have postponed uh which is understandable but they’re gearing up to come back but they’re gearing up to come back they’re excited to come back they are people who are evidently are not from california are still doing their thing that’s right they are dedicated they are committed to making the move yeah absolutely it’s just been a little delayed yeah it’s done but we are super excited um we are the pickle lady brigade is practicing very very safe safe health protocols yeah absolutely to the biggest degree yeah absolutely yeah so when we go when people come uh we are keeping appropriate social distances we have gloves we have our wipes we have ourselves we go wipe things down we wear our masks yeah wipe when we’re done that is correct although we’re really not practicing social media but that’s okay we’re yeah it’s hard to get in the shot yeah so you got to get within six feet of her that is right i know that’s a pain for her but we that’s true yeah so this quarantine is a little too much together too much togetherness a little too much i need my six feet plus yeah you’re so good yeah thank you but anyway uh so when things uh settle down and the dust settles and and you guys are ready to come back come on in we are still practicing all of our safe protocols uh we’re happy to take you out uh we are very strict on how we handle that and how we approach it we also are happy to virtually video any home that you’re interested in that you get in our home search yeah absolutely we’re happy to do that and at least you can kind of daydream and still get some education on what’s going on here and still look at beautiful homes absolutely we’ve been using the time well uh reorganizing the website to make it easier to negotiate navigate uh so from now on you guys as you guys have been following us around for a while know we have tons of free information both for buyers and sellers and uh rather than send you to a thousand different places we’ve reorganized there’s one place to go pickle411.com there’s a link down at the bottom and whether you’re a buyer so seller it will walk you through the process of finding what you’re looking for so take a moment and check out all the resources we have and uh if you like this wind down um subscribe you’ll see the subscribe button and make sure that you don’t miss us every week we’ve got tons of topics that we love to cover absolutely love to see you soon in the weeks to come we’re ready ready we’re gearing up to make it happen for you in this next new chapter absolutely don’t be discouraged friends all will turn around cheers bye oh i didn’t click yeah there we go it is bad luck sorry sorry anyway i wore my flower for spring flower spring flower for spring but anyway we look forward to seeing you in the next month or so and uh when things turn around we’re here for you bye