Santa Cruz Real Estate Market Update – April 2014

Winter - such as it was - is now squarely in the rear-view mirror and spring is in full bloom in Santa Cruz. It looks…

Santa Cruz Real Estate Update June 2014

Here we are, half way through June, and the spring home buying and selling season is pretty much over. We've had an incredible run of…

Upsizing or Downsizing your Home – Now or Later?

about upsizing or downsizing our home? With the considerable increases in home values we've seen over the past couple of years, a lot of homeowners…

Major and Minor Setbacks

Wow...me bad, really bad! It has been damn near a month since my last blog entry! So much for my goal of writing 2-3 times…

Finding Rentals the RSS Way

A couple of folks have asked me recently if I could help them find a rental. My brokerage doesn't really do rentals, so it's not…

Santa Cruz Real Estate Market Update May 2014

We're now halfway through spring and well on our way to summer, which many people think of as the peak of the home buying/selling season.…

2019 REALTOR Installation Speech

Thank you for braving yet another ferocious northern California rainstorm to be with us today at our 2019 Installation. Ive been fortunate to get to…

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…

Falling through Fall

Well, here's a cheery little note from CNNMoney: new home prices have fallen by an average of 10%, the biggest drop since 1970. You can…

Real Estate Podcasts

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past several years (and not that there's anything wrong with that!), you know what a Podcast…