Santa Cruz Home Sales – October, 2008

OK, this data is about a week old, but I bet you haven't seen too much of it, so here it goes. For starters, we…

Competence and Ethics of Santa Cruz Realtors

However, the Preamble does says Realtor® members should: eliminate practices which may damage the public or which might discredit or bring dishonor to the real…

Real Estate Auction in Monterey: November 13, 2008

The auction is being held at the Hilton Garden Inn and they will be auctioning off properties from the Salinas-Monterey area. As it happens, one…

Blue Light Special Turns Red!

A month ago, I wrote a blog entry about a homeowner in Soquel who was having a blue light special on the sale of his…

Redman House Apple Annual 2008

There's a property I've long been fascinated with - the so-called Redman House, just off Highway 1 outside of Watsonville, down by the Red Roof…

Santa Cruz Conforming Loan Limit 2009

Of course, the reverse was true on the way up - ridiculously easy credit , liar loans , lax underwriting standards , and mortgage fraud…

Downtown Santa Cruz on Halloween

Perhaps it was from stories I'd seen in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about people getting stabbed downtown on Halloween night - although, unfortunately, stabbings downtown…

Santa Cruz is #6 Foreclosure Capital Nationwide

The smell of freshly brewed coffee wafts through the house, as I peruse my trusty RSS News Reader, skimming over news articles and blog entries…

Santa Cruz Median Home Price: $475,000 in Sept. ’08

Still, though - if you have a house in Santa Cruz, you're looking at it being worth about $58,725 less than it was this time…

Billions, Trillions and a House in Santa Cruz

I should have just sat there and watched as my hard-earned dollars evaporated, sucked it up, been a man, and lost all that cash, the…