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2011 South Lake Tahoe, NV Year-End Real Estate Report

Posted by Richard Bolen on January 12th, 2012

More Distressed Sales and a few more High End sales above $5M characterize Stateline, NV 2011 real estate market.

This is the 2011 bottom line for the Nevada side of our South Lake Tahoe real estate market: demand was down slightly; median home values were about the same as last year; the percentage of distressed properties was higher, and luxury home sales over $1M were about the same in number, but notably higher above $5M.

The chart below is the source material for this report. Now for the details:

Number Homes Sold :
Slightly fewer homes sold in Stateline, NV in 2011 than in 2010.

Total 2011 sales: 86
2010 sales: 91

The difference: Five fewer single family homes sold in 2011 than last year.

Median Sold Price : (home values)
The 2011 Stateline, NV median sold price was little changed in 2011 compared to 2010.

2011 Median Sold Price (w Glenbrook and Lakefront Properties): $575,000
2011 Median Sold Price (w/out Glenbrook and Lakefront Properties): $530,150

2010 Median Sold Price (w Glenbrook and Lakefront Properties): $570,000
2010 Median Sold Price (w/out Glenbrook and Lakefront Properties): $519,900

The difference: From 2010 to 2011, with Glenbrook and Lakefront Properties included, the Stateline, NV median sold price increased by $5,000, or only .8% (point-eight).

From 2010 to 2011, with Glenbrook and Lakefront Properties not included, the Stateline, NV median sold price increased by $10,250, or by only 1.9%.

In 2011 luxury homes in Glenbrook and Lakefront Properties added $48,850 (7.8%) to the Stateline, NV median sold price. In 2010 that same contribution was $50,100, or 8.8%.

Distressed Sales : (bank owned properties and short sales)
The percentage, or incidence of Stateline, NV distressed properties sold was 9.4% higher in 2011 than it was in 2010.

2011 Bank Owned Sales (REOs): 16
2010 Bank Owned Sales: 8

2011 Short Sales: 11
2010 Short Sales: 12

Total 2011 distressed sales: 27 (31.4%)
Total 2010 distressed sales: 20 (22%)

The difference: There were twice as many bank owned sales (REOs) in Stateline, NV in 2011 than there were in 2010. Overall there were 7 more distressed sales in 2011 than in 2010, which amounted to a difference in 7 more overall.

Observations on Listing Price :
The average original list price was higher in 2011 than in 2010, which to a degree had to do with more high-end luxury homes to hit the market this year that were priced above $5M than in 2010 (6 v. 2). The percent homes were reduced off of their original list price in order to get sold was essentially the same in 2011 as it was in 2010, however.

2011 average original list price: $1,637,924
2010 avg original list price: $1,238,767

The difference: The average list price was $362,650 higher in 2011 than it was in 2010. That same numerical difference was $282,986 in 2010.

2011 percent reduction off original list price to get a home sold: 22.1%
2010 percent reduction: 22.8%

The difference: Well, there really was none (less than 1%).

Observations on Luxury Home Sales :
There was essentially no difference in the number of Stateline, NV luxury home sales at $1M or more in 2011 compared to 2010. There were three times as many homes that sold at $5M or more this year than last, however.

2011 sales between $1M and $2M: 8
2010 sales in the same range: 16

2011 sales between $2M and $3M: 2
2010 sales in the same range: 2

2011 sales between $3M and $4M: 2
2010 sales in the same range: 0

2011 sales between $4M and $5M: 3
2010 sales in the same range: 3

2011 sales over $5M: 6
2010 sales in the same range: 2

The difference: There were 2 more luxury home sales in 2010 than in 2011, but there were 4 more ultra high-end sales in 2011 than in 2010.

The chart below is the source for this report:

Stateline, NV 2011 real estate home sales final.

Some previous Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts about the NV side of the South Lake Taheo real estate market:

Jan 5, 2011: Final Stateline, NV 2010 home sales report
May 16, 2009: South Lake Tahoe 2009 Home Sales: Stateline, NV
Jul 27, 2010: U.S. Home Prices Increase… so what about South Lake Tahoe?
Feb 11, 2010: South Lake Tahoe, NV Home Sales in the last 365 days
Dec 21, 2009: South Lake Tahoe, NV: Stateline Home Sales in the last 365 Days

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First Jobs Report of the Year is a Good One

Posted by Richard Bolen on January 5th, 2012

Unemployment applications getting better

2011 trend of better, but slower than we'd like, economic news continues.

Here's what it says, "The job market is looking a little brighter at the start of the new year." It's via the Associated Press and it's in the first weekly jobs report of 2012.

As we've consistently reported since the onset of the tough economic times that started in late 2005, and got worse by 2008, they key to recovery is the US housing market, and the key to that is our national jobs market.

Here's a few bullet points in today's jobs report:

Weekly unemployment benefit applications have fallen to levels last seen more than three years ago.

The data released today shows a picture of an economy that is slowly strengthening.

Today's report found Wall Street more focused on the debt crisis in Europe, which could slow U.S. growth later this year.

Today's results of 373,250 unemployment applications are 11 percent lower than the same time last year.

When applications drop below 375,000 – consistently – they generally signal that hiring is strong enough to reduce the unemployment rate.

(Full article here)

Another CNNMoney.com report today on this same information, though, says the unemployment rate could likely rise by a tenth of a point tomorrow, from 8.6% to 8.7%. Some economists are predicting this because the suspect more people will likely be seeking employment because there are more jobs to be had. (here)

Previous Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts you may find resourceful:

Dec 27, 2011: 2011 Year End Economic Indicators
Dec 13, 2011: US Housing Affordability Now at Record High
Dec 12, 2011: South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Values and Distressed Sales right now
Oct 2, 2011: More South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Value is Q3 Trend
Jul 6, 2011: Q2 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Apr 2, 2011: Q1 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Jan 2, 2011: 2010 South Lake Tahoe Housing Demand Report

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2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Year-End Real Estate Report

Posted by Richard Bolen on January 4th, 2012

Demand Up, Prices Down, Distressed Property Sales about the Same.

This is the 2011 bottom line for our South Lake Tahoe, CA housing market: demand was up by 6.7%; home values were down by 19.7%; the percentage of distressed properties sold was about the same, and the percentage of properties sold under $300,000 increased by 17.7%.

The charts below are the source materials for this report. Now for the details:

Number Homes Sold :
More homes sold in South Lake Tahoe in 2011 than in 2010.

Total 2011 sales: 541
2010 sales: 507

The difference: 34 homes sold, or an increase of 6.7% in 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA housing demand.

Median Sold Price :
South Lake Tahoe, CA median home values declined in 2011 by 19.7% compared to 2010.

2011 Median Sold Price (w Tahoe Keys): $265,000
2011 Median Sold Price (Tahoe Keys not included): $240,000

2010 Median Sold Price (w Tahoe Keys): $319,000
2010 Median Sold Price (Tahoe Keys not included): $299,000

The difference:
From 2010 to 2011 (w Tahoe Keys): median sold price decline of $54,000, or 16.9%.
With the Tahoe Keys not included: a decline of $59,000, or 19.7%.

The difference in the effect of Tahoe Keys homes on the South Lake Tahoe, CA median home values was 9.4% in 2011 compared to 6.3% in 2010.

Distressed Sales :
The percentage of South Lake Tahoe, CA distressed properties sold (bank owned and short sales) was similar in 2011 to that of 2010.

2011 Bank Owned Sales (REO's): 171
2010 Bank Owned Sales: 156

2011 Short Sales (REO's): 95
2010 Short Sales: 79

Total 2011 distressed sales: 266, or 49.1% of all 541 total South Lake Tahoe, CA homes sold.
Total 2010 distressed sales: 235, or 46.4% of all 507 total homes sold.

The difference: an increase of 2.7% in the percentage of distressed homes sold in South Lake Tahoe, CA in 2011 compared to 2010.

Homes Sold Under $300,000 :
Both the number and percentage of South Lake Tahoe, CA homes sold under $300,000 increased in 2011 compared to 2010.

2011 homes sold under $300,000: 311, or 57.5%.
2010 homes sold under $300,000: 202, or 39.8%.

The difference: 109 more homes sold under $300, 000 in South Lake Tahoe, CA in 2011 compared to 2010 (an increase of 17.7%).

Average Size :
The average size of the South Lake Tahoe, CA house sold in 2011 (not including the Tahoe Keys) decreased slightly compared to 2010.

Average size all 2011 homes sold (Tahoe Keys not included): 1,674
Average 2010 size: 1,793

The difference: a decline in size of only 119 sq ft, or 6.6%.

Average Age :
Because of South Lake Tahoe, CA environmental growth restrictions, which are a benefit to all area homeowners and future buyers, the average age of a house is rather constant. Most homes here were built in the 1970's, many of which have been remodeled, and of course some not.

Average age of all 2011 homes sold: 1977
Average age of all 2010 homes sold: 1979

The difference: 2011 homes sold were on average 2 years older than those of 2010. This less-than-1% difference is likely due to the slight increase in distressed property sales and the larger increase in the number of homes sold below $300,000. This such incidence usually produces sales in smaller and older homes, but here again these changes are minimal in terms of either significance or value.

Luxury Home Sales :
A luxury home in this report about South Lake Tahoe, CA is defined as any home with a value of $1M or more. (Usually there are many more luxury homes sold on the Nevada side of the South Lake Tahoe market.)

Number 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA luxury homes sold: 9
Number sold in 2010: 12

The difference: 3 fewer luxury homes sold in 2011 than in 2010 (25% decline).

The chart below is the source for all 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA home sales in this report. (Full size here)

2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA real estate home sales report

The chart below is the source for all 2010 South Lake Tahoe, CA home sales in this report. (Full size here)

2010 South Lake Tahoe, CA real estate home sales report

Previous Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts of interest:

Oct 2, 2011: Q3 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Jul 6, 2011: Q2 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Apr 2, 2011: Q1 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Jan 2, 2011: 2010 South Lake Tahoe Housing Demand Report
Nov 16, 2010: What People are Buying: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales per Month
Nov 15, 2010: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales: Where We Are Now
Oct 9, 2010: Analysis of 2010 South Lake Tahoe, CA homes for sale
Oct 2, 2010: On Target with South Lake Tahoe, CA Homes for sale
August 31, 2010: US Home Prices Up… what about South Lake Tahoe?
August 27, 2010: I Woke Up this Morning… to the South Lake Tahoe Blues.
July 1, 2010: South Lake Tahoe Foreclosures: No Change Yet.
May 15, 2010: Where is the New Foreclosures Deluge?
November 15, 2009: Foreclosure Filings Down in October, what does it mean?

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Better Year End Economic Indicators… for the Country and South Lake Tahoe

Posted by Richard Bolen on December 27th, 2011

Better Year-End Economic News

Rising Consumer Confidence, Lower Housing Prices, Falling Jobless Claims, Historic Low Interest Rates are hopeful signs.

Here's a few reports that have come in through the holidays that we find encouraging. All are hopeful about a recovering economy (yes, we too wish it were faster), and all are good news for home buyers looking for South Lake Tahoe opportunities in the new year.

This first article came out just before Christmas, and it finds the number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits dropped to their lowest level since April 2008, boosting optimism in the job market. (here)

This next article came out today, and in it Case Schiller finds that housing prices dropped in 19 of 20 top US cities in October. We find it interesting that this is phrased as "housing recovery will be bumpy in 2012" rather than this is good news for home buyers, which lower prices always are. (here)

This article also came out today and it states the U.S. economy will grow faster in 2012 – if it isn't knocked off track by upheavals in Europe. (here)

Next today (it has been a good day for news) comes an article that says Americans are gaining faith that the economy is on the upswing. The monthly Consumer Confidence Index surged to the highest level since April and is approaching a post-recession peak. (here)

Though not found in a particular article, today's average mortgage interest rates are on average below 4%. We find these here, and this coupled with lower home prices are bountiful news for today's interested South Lake Tahoe home buyer.

Previous Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts you may find resourceful:

Dec 13, 2011: US Housing Affordability Now at Record High
Dec 12, 2011: South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Values and Distressed Sales right now
Oct 2, 2011: More South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Value is Q3 Trend
Jul 6, 2011: Q2 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Apr 2, 2011: Q1 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Jan 2, 2011: 2010 South Lake Tahoe Housing Demand Report
Nov 16, 2010: What People are Buying: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales per Month
Nov 15, 2010: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales: Where We Are Now
Oct 9, 2010: Analysis of 2010 South Lake Tahoe, CA homes for sale
Oct 2, 2010: On Target with South Lake Tahoe, CA Homes for sale
August 31, 2010: US Home Prices Up… what about South Lake Tahoe?
August 27, 2010: I Woke Up this Morning… to the South Lake Tahoe Blues.
July 1, 2010: South Lake Tahoe Foreclosures: No Change Yet.
May 15, 2010: Where is the New Foreclosures Deluge?
November 15, 2009: Foreclosure Filings Down in October, what does it mean?

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U.S. Housing Affordability is Now at Record High. How Good for South Lake Tahoe is that?

Posted by Richard Bolen on December 13th, 2011

Terrific News for all South Lake Tahoe Home Buyers

Here's what the article says: "There may not have been any generation in history that has faced such incredibly affordable home ownership, especially when a young couple is buying a first home to get started in life, invest in a home, and raise a family. At least in terms of housing affordability, young, middle-class Americans have never had it this good."

This means you, South Lake Tahoe home buyer.

The article comes today via the Wall Street Pit, and it is in full here.

The basis of the article, and it is worth repeating, is that it has never been more affordable for our public to buy a house than it is right now.

Here is an interactive chart from one of our Federal Reserve banks that shows the U.S. housing affordability index since 1980.

We hope you find this information helpful.

Previous Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts you may find resourceful:

Dec 12, 2011: South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Values and Distressed Sales right now.
Oct 2, 2011: More South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Value is Q3 Trend
Jul 6, 2011: Q2 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Apr 2, 2011: Q1 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Jan 2, 2011: 2010 South Lake Tahoe Housing Demand Report
Nov 16, 2010: What People are Buying: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales per Month
Nov 15, 2010: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales: Where We Are Now
Oct 9, 2010: Analysis of 2010 South Lake Tahoe, CA homes for sale
Oct 2, 2010: On Target with South Lake Tahoe, CA Homes for sale
August 31, 2010: US Home Prices Up… what about South Lake Tahoe?
August 27, 2010: I Woke Up this Morning… to the South Lake Tahoe Blues.
July 1, 2010: South Lake Tahoe Foreclosures: No Change Yet.
May 15, 2010: Where is the New Foreclosures Deluge?
November 15, 2009: Foreclosure Filings Down in October, what does it mean?

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A Glance at the South Lake Tahoe, CA real estate home values right now.

Posted by Richard Bolen on December 12th, 2011

A 17.3% decline in the South Lake Tahoe, CA median sold price over the last 365-days.

At present the South Lake Tahoe, CA median sold price is $231,500. This is based on all sales in the last 180-days, with the Tahoe Keys not included. If the Tahoe Keys were included, the median sold price over the same time frame is $250,000. In other words the Tahoe Keys skews the South Lake Tahoe median sold price upward by $18,500, or 7.4%.

Over the last 90-days, the South Lake Tahoe, CA median sold price is $227,900, and over the last 30-days it is $207,500. In other words South Lake Tahoe, CA home values are still trending downward.

At this same time last year, the median sold price over 180-days, again with the Tahoe Keys excluded, was $280,000. This means that the South Lake Tahoe, CA median sold price has declined $48,500, or 17.3% since December of 2010.

Distressed Sales :
Part of any real estate market these days are distressed sales. The incidence of bank owned and short sales does affect a market's median sold price. Like it or not, distressed sales are part of the market, and very much in the competition mix. This means buyers have distressed properties to choose from, which impacts all home sellers, and distressed sales do pull median home values downward.

As of the end of November, for all of the 376 homes sold in South Lake Tahoe, CA to that date, 48.7% of them were distressed sales. For all 507 homes sold in South Lake Tahoe, CA in 2010, 46.4% of them were distressed. What this means is there has not been a meaningful change in the incidence of distressed sales this year compared to last.

Another way of looking at this is the decline in median home values we have seen in 2011 is across the board, rather than primarily because of distressed sales.

Previous Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts you may find resourceful:

Oct 2, 2011: More South Lake Tahoe, CA Home Value is Q3 Trend
Jul 6, 2011: Q2 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Apr 2, 2011: Q1 2011 South Lake Tahoe, CA Real Estate Report
Jan 2, 2011: 2010 South Lake Tahoe Housing Demand Report
Nov 16, 2010: What People are Buying: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales per Month
Nov 15, 2010: South Lake Tahoe 2010 Home Sales: Where We Are Now
Oct 9, 2010: Analysis of 2010 South Lake Tahoe, CA homes for sale
Oct 2, 2010: On Target with South Lake Tahoe, CA Homes for sale
August 31, 2010: US Home Prices Up… what about South Lake Tahoe?
August 27, 2010: I Woke Up this Morning… to the South Lake Tahoe Blues.
July 1, 2010: South Lake Tahoe Foreclosures: No Change Yet.
May 15, 2010: Where is the New Foreclosures Deluge?
November 15, 2009: Foreclosure Filings Down in October, what does it mean?

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Better Jobs News is Good for South Lake Tahoe, Good for us All

Posted by Richard Bolen on December 8th, 2011

The job market is directly tied to the housing market.

Weekly US unemployment claims fall to nine-month low.

How better US jobs news is good for South Lake Tahoe is simply this: the national jobs market is directly tied to the housing market. Steady improvement in our country's employment picture will eventually lead to first, home value stability, and secondly gradual return to higher home values.

What's good for today's home buyer is rising home values have not occurred yet, nor do we expect that in the near future. As one tracks the jobs market, though, there will become a point where it will cost more to buy a South Lake Tahoe home than it does now.

Today's jobs report cited 23,000 fewer unemployment claims than were expected.

Here's some bullet points in today's report as brought to us by CNNMoney.com:

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell to a nine-month low.

This signals a bright spot in the tough employment environment.

A level below 400,000 often signals job growth strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.

These numbers could have been affected by seasonal adjustments for the Thanksgiving holiday.

(full article here, and another article about the same information from the New York Post here.)

Previous Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog posts about jobs:

Aug 5, 2011: Better Jobs Report News
Jul 28, 2011: A Better Jobs Report… amid this Political Nonsense!
May 8, 2011: A Good Jobs Report
Mar 4, 2011: Jobs Report: Good News for all of Us, and South Lake Tahoe too.
Mar 3, 2011: Caution: positive South Lake Tahoe housing news found here
Feb 10, 2011: More Better Economic News for South Lake Tahoe

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Some new things about the Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog

Posted by Richard Bolen on December 5th, 2011

New things coming on the Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog

Progress is being made from our efforts to help you in South Lake Tahoe

At first the vision was to create new stat services for South Lake Tahoe home buyers to better recognize the deal they are looking for, and at the same time to provide a means to help a buyer understand when they are not paying too much.

It took about a year to create this new tool, and it's been sitting here on our site innocuously on our site for about a month. What happened to change that original vision, though, is it has become apparent that these new tools are quite likely to become national real estate products.

There has been much recent feedback to suggest so, and this feedback has caused some immediate changes here. First, we will be taking these new tools off our site for the time being. This will happen today. They are being reworked, reformed, scaled to enterprise level software, and will be given a striking new user interface from this design firm (I have a past relationship with them, who built the product for the public company I co-founded in LA back in the '80's. Check out their client list here).

In other words the beta versions of what we have been developing worked. Now it's time to get very serious about software product development.

Our focus is now here. A new company is being formed to develop and sell our new real estate applications nationally. There are four programmers working on this as we speak, and key administrative, accounting, financial direction, sales executives and future board members have been identified. It is perhaps more than anything else their effusive response to what we're doing that has given us this new direction.

We suspect it will be in the second quarter of 2012 that we will bring our new applications with the new user usage interface back on this blog. By then they will also be elsewhere in preliminary tests to serve other markets as well.

In the meantime, we will continue posting consistent valuable South Lake Tahoe real estate information here, and we can't wait for you to be able to use these new tools for real. They will fundamentally help you better buy and sell a house here in South Lake Tahoe.

In the meantime, here's a link to a video about the beta version of one of these applications.

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South Lake Tahoe, now with Two New Eyes

Posted by Richard Bolen on December 4th, 2011

South Lake Tahoe w two new eyes

Gratitude and Progress with Cataract Surgery

We must apologize for the gap in between our last post. South Lake Tahoe visuals have been just a little awkward with one eye, the new one, seeing things at 20-20, and the other eye seeing from a 20-400 point of view.

My glasses with only one lens didn't change that oddness, and as my right eye healed, seeing so good and new that it did, things did get a little better, but not so much that I wanted to spend my days in front on computer screens. Focus just wasn't the same.

Surgery for the left eye came last Tuesday. It too was quick, painless, and I was much looking forward to it. But the instant better sight that I experienced in my right eye didn't come with the new corrected left. Blurry was what I saw first, and it took a few days for that blur to become more clear.

Both eyes from cataract surgery are still adjusting, and it is a pleasure to write again. There is still more healing and adjustment to pass, and it will still be 3 more weeks before I can get new glasses. The truth is I already see better than I did wearing my old glasses, and with a tweak in new lenses for distant vision, and for real close up stuff, I will see better than I have… ever.

Gratitude leaps in bounds for both my surgeon, and for the amazing technical progress and medical advancements made for this sort of thing, and I'm also grateful for South Lake Tahoe, you have never looked so good.

About cataract surgery on the first eye, here.

Some Lake Tahoe Real Estate Blog videos you may enjoy:

Jul 14, 2001: Heaven on Earth: a video featuring the South Lake Tahoe Weather
Jul 5, 2011: Awesome Fireworks Finale: South Lake Tahoe, July 4, 2011
Dec 9, 2010: How to find and use our Bolero Button… and why you should.
Oct 20, 2010: Bijou Neighborhood video
Sep 28, 2010: A South Lake Tahoe Indian Summer
Sep 23, 2010: Emerald Bay Treetops… and a Bald Eagle
Sep 16, 2010: Walking on Water… South Lake Tahoe Style
Sep 11, 2010: Al Tahoe Neighborhood video

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Seeing South Lake Tahoe… with a New Eye.

Posted by Richard Bolen on November 17th, 2011

Cataract surgery is a wonderful thing

Cataract Surgery brings a wonderful new focus to South Lake Tahoe.

Blues like I've never seen them before. Reds and greens too. And it's truly amazing. I had been told I would see South Lake Tahoe better after cataract surgery, but I wasn't told it would be this good.

Only the right eye has been done so far, and all I can say is it's amazing. I've got 20-20 vision in one eye for the first time ever. Clarity and distance distinction, I pretty much knew that would get better, but what I didn't know was how much more vibrant color would be.

Everything is also much brighter too. It seems like the difference is light with a bluish tint compared to one that is somewhat yellow… and much more blurred.

The two images below of the forest that is our back yard are pretty much the before and after.

Before cataract surgery.

The image above is close to what my left eye sees now. The image below is what my right eye sees now.

Back yard after cataract surgery

There is a period of further adjustment on this first eye. But all is well, and I really look forward to seeing what South Lake Tahoe really looks like with both eyes. Will have to wait until the 29th though, when the left eye becomes free of its obfuscating cataract too.

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