Coachella Music Festival grounds are larger and even grander!
Locals and the Music Festival!! As with all relationships,there is a yin and a yang to the three weekends of the Coachella Music Festivals. The first two bring in current superstars, future hopefuls, and recent New Musical discoveries in the Coachella Music Festival. The only difference this season was the SIZE of the Festival..the city approved a newly enhanced limit of 125,000 people. The grounds themselves were larger too. All this was FANTASTIC! But…increased traffic, increased litter, long waits, detours to stay away from the busy streets..some inconveniences for us locals.
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Real Estate Sales are up in the Coachella Valley, California.
Kimberley Kelly, local Coachella Valley realtor, is having a busy summer! My colleagues report the same..activity is UP in our desert valley. In my 16 years of real estate experience in our Coachella valley cities, it seems that when the builders return to building New Homes, resale properties follow suit. My “Best Buy” homes under $100,000, to the luxury home on the lake at PGA West, to Equestrian Estates in high and low deserts, the buyers have returned! One of the new Palm Springs housing developments on the old Palm Springs golf course, has just received approval..Serena.
Recent Farm Sales, and continuing activity around investment Land, farms, and luxury Equestrian Estates, also signal that buyers are serious. If you’re looking to buy, Sell, or just get more information, give me a call at 760-285-3578.
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mid-century modern neighborhoods
The Coachella Valley offers mid-century Modern Homes in cities other than just Palm Springs. The recent re-awakening of our love for anything mid-century, has swept the Coachella Valley, states Kim Kelly, local Realtor. One of our most popular tourist events is our Modernism Week. During the week, tours of mid-century Modern homes designed by the likes of Donald Wexler, and William Krisel, are offered to the public. Walking neighborhood tours are also featured, but because the Modernism week is based in Palm Springs, many people don’t realize how many of our Coachella Valley cities offer spectacular examples of this architectural style. If you’d like to check out some of our mid-century modern home areas, give Kim Kelly a call at 760-285-3578, or send me an e-mail at kjkpolo@gmail.com
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The Movie Colony in Palm Springs, CA.
IS PALM SPRINGS THE NEW HAMPTONS? Kim Kelly, Coachella Valley Realtor, heard this reference over the past week, and it has inspired some market status inquiries. Socially, it could very well be true. Palm Springs, our most Westerly lying Coachella Valley city, is HOT! I don’t mean temperature either, but rather in demand for Real Estate. Why?? Chalk it up to Modernism Week, and our Valley’s close proximity to Los Angeles, (movie star land). We have been “discovered”. Seems so funny as I’ve lived here for 35 years, and knew all those years ago, how incredible our desert valley is. What’s happening in Palm Springs? What’s selling, and for how much? Interested in a tour of available Palm Springs area properties for sale..give Kim a call at 760-285-3578.
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55775 Pebblebeach at PGA West, La Quinta, CA.
The Stadium Course at PGA West in La Quinta, California, is the site of this spectacular Custom Home! Kim Kelly, Coachella Valley Realtor, says this incredible property will be Available to tour after the Music Festivals, This Lake front property is as unique as it is functional. Offering approx. 4,600 sf., 3 bedrooms/4 bathrooms in the main home, PLUS very large detached Casita with kitchenette. A circular driveway and a triple car garage provide plenty of off street parking for your guests, and when they pass through the custom, wood carved entry gate into the beautiful courtyard, they’ll feel like they’re truly on vacation. Call Kim Kelly, Coachella Valley Realtor, to set up your personal tour..760-285-3578.
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80875 Via Portofino, La Quinta, CA.
The Hideaway in La Quinta, California is undergoing a new building phase. This Just Listed Estate home site at 80875 Via Portofino is one of the best locations! There is construction all over the Club. A bit of a slow down on the interior streets, but the Hideaway home owners are smiling. Nothing like New Homes to improve everyone’s property values. This home site is one of the few remaining quiet, interior parcels of this magnitude at the club. The Hideway Golf Club is an extremely popular club in the Coachella Valley. It is locally referred to as “the social club” due to all the social activities for members, and their families. Very easy to get to with it’s main entrance off of Jefferson St., which is an artery street directly to the 10 fwy. The Palm Springs airport is approx. 25 minutes away on the 10.
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Coachella Valley Festivals rock on..
Festivals coming up next weekend in the Coachella Valley. Indio is formally known as our desert “City of Festivals.”, but our desert should really be called “The Valley of the Festivals.” We all know by now of the magnitude of the Coachella Music Festival, followed by the Stagecoach Festival in April. I suppose the success of these Festivals, along with the original Indio Date Festival, has just naturally dovetailed into Festival this, and Festival that. No matter..this coming weekend, is a weekend of Festivals to kick off our follow up to Halloween, and intro to Thanksgiving Celebrations in the Coachella Valley.….
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Vegetarian dining option? Haven’t tried them!
Vegetarian Dining in the desert, means you have to be a little creative. There aren’t that many hard core Vegetarian restaurants and dining options available, especially in our East Cities of La Quinta and Indio. There are several strictly Veggie places in Palm Springs and Palm Desert however. Luscious Lorraines which is inside Harvest Health Foods in Palm Desert. The incredibly popular Native Foods in Palm Springs. Do not dispair locals in the East Valley. The great news is that nearly every restaurant you go to at this point offers variations, or their chef’s are open to “vegetarian changes” that you may request. Why not? It probably saves them money, substituting Tofu, or Soy/vegetable products for meat.
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Luxury Property Sales
Luxury Property Sales in the past 30 days are pretty impressive for our Desert Cities. Keep in mind that we are in our slowest summer months, and several of our desert cities recorded sales of 1 million Plus.
Topping our most recent Luxury Market Sales is a home in South Palm Springs. This home was listed one day before it was scooped up! Listed at $2,100,000, and boasting 4 bedrooms/5 bathrooms in approx. 4,658 sf, it SOLD for $1,950,000 CASH. This property was located in the Old Las Palmas area of South Palm Springs. This particular area is often referred to as “The Beverly Hills” of Palm Springs. Homes that come up in this prime area do not sit for long!
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LA QUINTA’S GOLD MINE OF A GOLF CLUB – THE QUARRY
The Quarry at La Quinta offers an exclusive desert lifestyle
La Quinta’s golf community The Quarry is quite unique… and there are many reasons why it has been recognized by Travel and Leisure Magazine as one of America’s top golf communities. If you’ve ever visited The Quarry, you would immediately understand. Its picturesque location, nestled in a cove at the base of the Coral and Santa Rosa Mountains on an old mining site, creates an allure and feeling of total exclusivity, privacy and security. This is where Native Americans roamed and the Old West once flourished. Life-size bronze sculptures strategically placed around the property artfully pay homage to the land’s history.
Hidden up a curving entrance road, the Fazio designed golf course at The Quarry cuts a dramatic oasis-like swath up the cove… with manicured fairways and four lakes, streams and waterfalls encircled by lush indigenous landscaping. Owning a home at The Quarry is a privilege unlike anywhere else in the Palm Springs Valley.
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