Lacy Burke - Social Consciousness

Lacy Burke is a RE/Max luxury division realtor with an office in Santa Monica, California. He has had a very successful career, and says that giving back to the community has become an important part of what he does.
“I don’t know why you don’t hear real estate agents talking about social consciousness, but we should be,” he says. Supporting charities is an important part of his business, he explained, and is one of the reasons why he is able to establish and maintain relationships with so many of his clients.

One of the causes he is proudest to be associated with is the Make-a-Wish Foundation. This is the non-profit that grants wishes to children who are struggling with life-threatening illnesses. Since it began more than thirty years ago, the Make-a-Wish Foundation’s Los Angeles chapter has granted more than nine thousand wishes. “Volunteering for the Make-a-Wish Foundation,” says Lacy Burke, “has made me a better person and a better businessman.” It is something that he is proud to tell his clients about.

He says that he hopes his involvement with the Make-a-Wish Foundation can help to improve the public’s perception of real estate agents. “Real estate agents are viewed too much like lawyers or politicians,” he explained. “Seen as being untrustworthy, or just after the commission, but that isn’t true.” A lot of them, himself included, genuinely care about their clients, and are committed to finding them the home of their dreams.

Lacy Burke is also an advocate of pet adoption, and getting the word out about inhumane dog breeders. He is a graduate of California State University at Northridge.
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Lacy Burke - Pending Home Sales

Lacy Burke is a Santa Monica real estate agent with an intimate knowledge of the Los Angeles market, honed by the years he grew up there. He has marketed residential homes, investment properties and business opportunities throughout the city.

As a real estate professional, he closely watches the performance of the market throughout Southern California. And the state’s real estate industry shows signs of continuing improvement. Pending home sales were up 13.6 percent on an annual basis from the 114 index recorded in April 2014, which at the time was the fifth straight month of year-to-year gains, and the third straight month of double-digit advances. Across the state, pending home sales declined slightly in April, with the Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) down 0.6 percent, based on signed contracts. The PSHI is an index created by the National Association of Realtors. It tracks those home sales where a contract has been signed, but the sale has not been closed.

On an encouraging note, the share of sales closing above asking price has been on an upward trend for three months in a row. This indicates the return of bidding wars in some local markets. Thirty-six percent of transactions in April closed above the asking price, up from its lowest point of sixteen percent in January of 2015. Forty-one percent of sales closed below the asking price, and twenty-three percent closed at the asking price.

Lacy Burke is the head of Lacy Burke Realty.

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Lacy Burke - Pet Adoption

Lacy Burke is a real estate agent in Santa Monica, California, where he specializes in Los Angeles County’s Westside real estate.

He has taken up the cause of pet adoption, and made a public plea to the Los Angeles County Animal Services to shut down pet breeding operations that he was aware of. “I didn’t realize how important pet adoption is until I visited a dog breeder,” he said. That visit shocked him: he described seeing dogs kept in filthy, tiny cages. “If these dogs weren’t sick already, they would be soon. They were clearly living sad, painful, and miserable lives.”

According to the Humane Society, such dog breeding operations, known as “puppy mills,” are inhumane facilities, and yet they are reported to supply ninety-nine percent of the puppies sold in pet stores in the United States. These facilities are focused almost exclusively on the bottom line, and as Lacy Burke’s experience bears out, they disregard the health of the dogs they raise. The Humane Society estimates there are at least ten thousand puppy mills in the United States, and fewer than three thousand of them are regulated by Federal authorities.

The experience of seeing such a place first-hand changed Lacy Burke. After his visit he adopted a dog from a local animal shelter, and says it is “the best decision I’ve made in years.” He says his new four-legged friend seemed to understand that she had been rescued. He is now committed to getting the word out on the horror of puppy mills and the need for animal adoption.
Sources:
http://www.humanesociety.org/news/publications/whitepapers/puppy-mill-research.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
http://www.thepuppymillproject.org/about-puppy-mills/
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