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…
Category: Santa Cruz Real Estate
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…
Santa Cruz Real Estate Industry Consolidation
And it's no surprise, either, that Flat Rate Realty closed an office - these discount brokerages do good when times are fat, but when times…
Short Sales – Salvation or Scam?
There are short sale gurus out there all over the place selling seminars and CDs and books to Realtors on how to do short sales…
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…
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…
Watsonville Foreclosures Meet the Press
On the eve of our tour down to Watsonville to look at some REO foreclosure opportunities, I got a call from one of the staff…
Watsonville Foreclosure Tour
I just spent the last hour or so going through every house and condo listing from Larkin Valley down through Watsonville, and I found that…