John Gonnello

In the retirement communities of Coachella Valley, two homes with the same floor plan, the same square footage, and the same street can sell $100,000 apart. The difference has nothing to do with location or timing. It comes down to whether the owner kept up with maintenance or let it slide for decades. John Gonnello, ...

The Coachella Valley real estate market is splitting along price lines. Properties above $1 million are still moving. Below $500,000, activity has slowed noticeably, a dynamic that complicates the conventional wisdom about retirement destinations as uniformly resilient markets. John Gonnello, a Realtor with HomeSmart Professionals in Palm Desert, California, has spent close to 40 years ...