Santa Cruz is Better than Salinas

The title of this blog entry may sound outrageous to some, but I expect that most folks in Santa Cruz would greet it with a…

There’s No Such Thing as Market Price

When people are looking to buy property and searching on the internet, I encourage them to search a bit, maybe a good bit, over the…

February 2008 Santa Cruz Real Estate Sales

That's good news, but if you think about it, you'd realize it couldn't actually get much worse, and even with this improvement, we're really just…

Stagflate your way to Greater Home Equity

So here I am, working on some reports about the properties I've got listed, and to cut down the monotony, I browse news web sites…

Santa Cruz Real Estate Industry Consolidation

And it's no surprise, either, that Flat Rate Realty closed an office - these discount brokerages do good when times are fat, but when times…

From Santa Cruz to Mount Diablo and Back

I've hiked pretty much all over Santa Cruz county (it took me years to see it all, or most of it, anyway), so this time,…

My 15 Minutes of Fame

Who was it who said everyone gets 15 minutes of fame ? ... Frey, 37, works at Thunderbird Real Estate in Capitola. Last month, he…

Santa Cruz and Mega Region Real Estate

Though theoretically we should be able to work just as efficiently from, as he puts it, "a ski chalet in Aspen or a house in…

Santa Cruz Gets Highest FHA Loan Limit – $729,750

Counties that get the $729,750 maximum for FHA loans are likely to get that same level for Fannie and Freddie mortgages, experts said. ... In…

Watsonville Foreclosures Meet the Press

On the eve of our tour down to Watsonville to look at some REO foreclosure opportunities, I got a call from one of the staff…