Slow news day
A couple of days back, I don't know if you heard, but Santa Cruz Title is consolidating its operations , getting rid of two offices.…
Category: Santa Cruz Real Estate
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…
Lawsuit over the Sale of Capitola’s Surf and Sand
They're suing the city of Capitola, claiming in federal court in San Jose that the city has illegally taken the underlying value of their 4-acre…
Property Tax Rates for Santa Cruz Real Estate
So, for example, if you purchase a $500,000 property, the assessed value will be $500,000 and the property tax will be 1% of that, or…
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…
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…
Marisa Miller Loves Santa Cruz
Of course, I went to the site looking to find stuff to read, but somehow I got trapped in Marisa's gallery and stumbled around (blindly,…
To TIC, or Not to TIC…
It's been around for ages, really - holding title as "Tenants in Common" is one of the most popular ways to hold title - for…
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…
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…