Back in the Saddle

Shiver me timbers, it's been far too long since my last blog post - easily a week and a half!  Oh ho what I want…

Buyer Buy-Down

A few posts ago, I wrote about Seller Rate Buy-Downs...many sellers are offering to "buy down" the interest rate that the buyer will pay on…

Scene of the Crime

This past Wednesday I went back to the house I've got in escrow, the one where we released our contingencies last weekend. I was there…

Further Developments

A few months ago I made a posting about the Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks, and I mentioned that I had not yet been…

Santa Cruz Market Timers

OK, raise your hands - who among you thinks that the prices for Santa Cruz Real Estate are going to be going down over the…

Santa Cruz Architecture

Being a Realtor is really an interesting business. The thing that's most interesting about it is that it touches upon so many aspects of life!…

Sales Plunge 30% in July

Did that headline get your attention? It sure got mine! Just a few days ago, I was telling some colleagues: "It's not that bad -…

Weekend Update

I had a great weekend, so I thought I'd share a little bit about it with you folks. Very little of it was real estate…

Seller Rate Buy Down

You've heard it time and again: rising interest rates are going to cause housing price growth to stall, or even worse, retreat. You may have…

A Word about Encroachments

So my real estate topic-du-jour is encroachment, as I spent an hour or two dealing with an issue I have with an upcoming listing.  It…