Real Estate

Featured Tips For Listing Photographs Several years ago, a Better Homes and Gardens blog was written about taking good photos of your home. It re-surfaced with a PDF from real estate photographer Alex Chuzhoy (see below). I wanted to share some of the best tips from both sources below! Inside the Home: De-clutter as much as possible Depersonalize the house […]
Featured The Housing Inventory Crisis, Explained Jay Vorhees at JVM Lending wrote a blog about the “Housing Inventory Crisis” recently, and I wanted to share a lightly edited version of it. Read on below: Picture yourselves walking into your local Whole Foods and seeing 2/3 of the shelves entirely empty. That is exactly the state of the single-family residential real estate […]
Featured Why You’re Getting Unsolicited Offers On Your House Recently, on BHG.com, there was an article I found both timely and interesting. It was about why you might be getting offers on your house, even when it’s not for sale. Personally, I get these calls all the time. All I have to say is, “I’m a realtor,” and most hang up on me. One […]
Featured A closing in Walnut Creek! I recently closed on a home at 536 Coralie Dr. in Walnut Creek. My clients, Kim and Adam (I have known Kim since the 90s!), had been living in a small flat in San Francisco for many years. But their last child recently went to college, and they decided the East Bay would be a […]
Featured No Surprise Here! The National Association of Realtors (NAR) conducted an annual survey to create a profile of home buyers and sellers. It helps define the trends of the past year and look forward to those of the next. I want to share some of their key findings: Homes typically sold at a record pace of one week […]
Featured Rates Have Never Been This High!* *since 2021… My friend Jay Vorhees at JVM Lending recently wrote about this, and I wanted to share a couple graphs he included in the blog to give context to the “rising” interest rates. As Jay mentions in his blog, there is perspective to be considered when discussing the rising interest rates. They HAVE risen […]
Featured Another Buyer Closing! I recently represented a buyer for a home in the Antioch area. It was a 4-bedroom fixer listed at $575,000, but my client got it for $540,000. The picture below shows what the house looked like when my client put the offer in. He has since landscaped the front. This was a trust sale, and […]
Featured Understanding California SB9 I received an email from Chicago Title recently about California Senate Bill #9 (SB9), which was signed into law in mid-September and takes effect on the first day of 2022. The language of the bill means that up to four homes on parcels where one currently exists may be allowed (by allowing current single-family homes […]
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