Mortgage Accelerators

There's a fancy new loan product that's come to town:  Mortgage Accelerators.  I've heard about them from a couple of different loan brokers now, but…

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…

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…