Underprice and sell for more…way more.

Published: September 14, 2023The Compass number crunchers are at it again, and they've updated their Dangers of Overpricing charts. They first released this data about…

Dealing With Outrageous Concession Requests in the Sale of Your Bay Area Home

You’ve probably read about as-is sales on my blog or heard about me talk about them on my video. In those transactions, buyers agree to…

Why is there no For Sale By Owner in the Bay Area?

If you’re like most property buyers, you’ve spent some time looking on Zillow for a property that you want to purchase. With that search, you’ve…

California Real Estate Forecast for 2020

As you may have heard, I recently became a Broker Associate with Compass in Los Gatos (the former Alain Pinel REALTORS). There are a lot…

2019 Mid-Year Real Estate Update for Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey

And here we are, just past half-way through 2019! Happened so quick, I'll bet you feel a bit of whiplash. It's been an interesting half-year…

The Right Way to do a Price Reduction on your Bay Area Home

I often tell my clients that one of my most important jobs as a REALTOR is to help the seller set the right list price…

Sell for 21.3% over the Zillow Zestimate

a blog post last week, I highlighted the San Jose Mercury News article about the 17.3% spike in Bay Area home prices in March. That's an…

The True Cost of Overpricing your Bay Area Home

will be shown in this article, overpricing one’s home when going on market almost always have negative repercussions for sellers: Across all Bay Area markets,…

Why I Moved to Compass

On November 1, 2019 I joined Compass as a Broker Associate. This is only the third brokerage I have been affiliated with in nearly 17…

Silicon Valley Real Estate Prices Drop Sharply in Q1 2019

A couple of days ago I attended a regional meeting of local REALTOR Association leadership. We had officers and staff from around the greater San…