Santa Cruz Market Update, August 2007

Another edition of my Santa Cruz County Real Estate Report is out, with sales data for August of this year. On the surface, the numbers…

Foreclosure Specialist

I spent the last couple of days up in beautiful Milpitas, California attending a seminar called The Foreclosure Specialist. I've attended a lot of training…

Give Yourself a Tax Break

Do you feel like your property taxes are too high? That sounds like it could be a bad thing - but maybe it isn't! Maybe,…

Equity Sharing – Credit Crisis key?

In case you haven't heard, there's a crisis in the mortgage market. Probably by now, you've heard about the sub-prime lender implosion, but now, it's…

The La Bahia Project

The La Bahia project is back in the news:La Bahia dealt setback, hotel overhaul delayed - By SHANNA MCCORD - Sentinel staff writer - July…

Septic Blues

Did I mention, I put a house into escrow yesterday? Yep, sure did - nice little place down in La Selva Beach. Needs work, being…

Just Say No – to County Parks?

There's an interesting article that came out in the Santa Cruz Sentinel the other day:Pleasure Point residents speak out against improvements to Floral Park We…

Time for a Mortgage Meltdown

I was at a pretty stressful signing yesterday. I'm in a deal where the buyers are taking out a pretty large pair of loans (totaling…

The ol’ 1031 Five-Year Switcheroo

So here I am, working on doing my own personal 1031 Exchange. I've done plenty of deals where either the buyer or the seller was doing…

Preserving Historical Properties

Saw this in the Register-Pajaronian a couple days ago:Castro Adobe to be restoredActually, I have no idea what the Castro Adobe is. Well, I do,…