Discount Broker = Caveat Emptor

This is the guy who sent me an offer, and after I received it, I called him to let him know I'd be e-mailing him…

Is it safe to buy a house in Santa Cruz yet?

For example, our good, reliable, always-faithful friends at the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) report: C.A.R. reports sales decrease 28.5 percent, median home price falls…

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…

Advice for Santa Cruz Home Sellers in 2008

That's kind of the problem. There's a large school of thought that says one reason why home prices have not slid more than they have…

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…