Real Estate
Real Estate Market Update
On the Chinese calendar, 2012 may be known as the Year of the Dragon, but in real estate, I predict it will be looked back on as the Year of the Short Sale. It’s a well-known fact that lenders hav...
Jan 28, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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January Market Update
The discussion about what lies ahead for the real estate market always reaches a fever pitch during the holiday season. What are home prices going to do? Is the market stabilizing? Is now the ti...
Jan 01, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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December Real Estate Update
I’m going to be blunt—you are crazy if you are selling a home right now and don’t absolutely need to. If you own a home that you no longer need or want, and are in a financial position to keep it,...
Nov 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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November Real Estate Update
Not much has changed with our local real estate market in the past month, which unfortunately means that its lackluster performance continues. Countywide, both pending and closed sales are down sl...
Nov 03, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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November Real Estate Update
Not much has changed with our local real estate market in the past month, which unfortunately means that its lackluster performance continues. Countywide, both pending and closed sales are down sl...
Nov 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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October Real Estate Update
A recent survey by Apartments.com revealed new insight into our current real estate market. Their findings? Many would-be homeowners are choosing to rent not because they have to, but because the...
Oct 01, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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September Real Estate Update
Despite considerable improvements in the real estate markets surrounding San Francisco and Silicon Valley, our local market continues to be sluggish. The volume of pending sales has held relativel...
Aug 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Real Estate Update- Number of Pending Sales is Up
As I prepare to write each monthly column on the state of our local housing market, I dig into the housing numbers to get a sense of the market’s relative health. As an active local realtor, I als...
Jul 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Real Estate Update
There is no denying the numbers anymore. The nation's real estate market is without a doubt in the middle of a "double dip" with home values dropping to new lows. Fortunately, local market condit...
Jun 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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June Real Estate Update
If you have an opinion about the real estate market, whether good or bad, you can undoubtedly find data to back it up. As with all statistical analyses, many different types of market data are ava...
May 29, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Real Estate Hill Update
A strange thing happened while I was preparing a market analysis for a client considering selling her home. This involves reviewing several comparable active listings (homes currently available fo...
May 06, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Real Estate Update
Ask any realtor what his favorite part of the home buying process is and one of the more popular responses you’ll receive is “the closing.” The reasons are obvious. All the work is done, the chal...
Mar 28, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Concerned about Staying in your Home?
Since the beginning of this housing market breakdown, I’ve struggled to answer questions regarding who to turn to for help for people who are at risk of losing their homes. I’ve seen first hand, ma...
Sep 02, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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