Tahoe Update — June 28, 2026

Greetings Fellow Life Travelers:

Just like that, from summer to cold and windy – Thursday kinda of a ‘hug the bed’ day.  Tahoe is seldom boring!  Traffic has escalated as guests and families come up for summer fun.  Looks like pollen has subsided, so now I can wash down the decks and get pillows out. Feels like it was a long siege.  Action in real estate escalates now that we’re into summer.  Let’s take a look.

Residential Real Estate – week 6/20 – 6/26

For Tahoe Sierra MLS, there were two whopping new listings in Martis Camp, one at $22M, the other a re-list down from $25M to $22,95M.  One West Shore lakefront listed at $7.6M went to escrow. Incline had interesting escrows; out of the 17, 12 were condominiums. For the 5 solds, non were condos. Reno’s market continues to buzz with a new listing at $5.95M.  Out of the 130 Actives, 15 are listed between $1 and $2M, one over at $2+M.  There are 9 listed over $5M with 2 over those over $10M. The high end languishes there.

Local/Real Estate/Luxe

• San Francisco’s single-family market is heating up after an extended lull as a flood of AI wealth enters the market.  May’s actives of 393 fell to 215 in June, with average 18 days on the market – the fastest in 5 years.

• Outdoor summer concerts abound: Wednesday nights in Truckee – Music in the Park, and Sunday at Tahoe City Commons Beach (no July 5). 

• Truckee Thursdays is in full swing with music, food and vendor shopping.  TART free shuttles available.

• Watson Cabin, Tahoe City, has reopened after significant restoration. Great to see our TOT taxes invested in our community! 

• Free transportation – both in Truckee and Tahoe City.  Shuttle routes from Olympic Valley and the West Shore go to the TC Transfer station for easy TC access.  Specially good for July 4th! 

• Estate and financial planning.  With as little as $300,000 to invest, Mercer Advisors  - one of our resources for REALM – is available for assistance with your investment questions and thoughtful plans

Entertainment

• Nostalgia:  Kate Smith introducing God Bless America for first time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOAH2lv3H0

TidBits & Quotes

• Celebration can rescue your day—even if it is someone else's victory. Envy will ruin your day—even if you're actually winning."  James Clear

• If guns kill people, then I guess pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk and spoons make people fat.

• Old age comes at a terrible time.  Just as I was starting to know it all, I’m now forgetting everything I knew.

• The first bottle of Coca-Cola from 1894 contained around 3.5 grams of cocaine.  Explaining why our parents and grandparents could walk to and from school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefoot.

• Just heard someone say that the World Cup is just the US having a giant sleepover with the cousins we never see because our parents hate each other.

• When the road gets bumpy, you don’t leave the car, you put your seat belt on.

• Sales don’t equal savings. (good one for Realtors!)

• If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?

• Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?

• With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it’s only a matter time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him too.

• A friend asked me, ‘what’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever done?’  I replied, ‘It’s awfully bold of you to assume that I’ve peaked.’

• Yesterday I wore something from 5 years ago and it fit.  So proud of myself.  It was a pair of socks.

• I can’t believe that all my childhood punishments have become my adult goals: eating vegetables, staying home, having a nap, going to bed early.

• I saw a lady at the gym on the exercise bike wearing a helmet, so I put on a life jacket and got on the rowing machine.

• I was pulled over for speeding. A Texas State Trooper walked up to my window with his little book.  I said, “I bet you gonna sell me a ticket to the Texas State Trooper’s ball.”  He said, “Texas State Troopers don’t have balls.”  There was a moment of silence and then he closed his book, walked back to his patrol car and left.

• I didn’t sleep well last night so I made my coffee this morning with Red Bull.  I got half way to work before I realized I forgot my car.

So, have a great 4th weekend celebration, remember where you parked your car, thanks for reading my weekly Updates, and thanks to my cousin and a few friends who send me fodder for Tidbits! 

Best wishes,

Trinkie