It’s springtime—the time of year when a lot of people start thinking about selling their homes. If you’re one of those people, I’ll bet that you’ve asked what you can do to the property to really boost the sales price and net the highest amount of money. Many people worry that they’ll have to make big, expensive upgrades or repairs.
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Santa Cruz Median Home Price hit $920K in March
The Santa Cruz real estate market is making headlines again. A few weeks ago, the news was that the median home price in Santa Cruz county had dipped below $800,000 for the first time in 15 months. But a fresh look at MLS data reveals that the Santa Cruz median home price hit $920K in March […]
Summer 2017 Real Estate Wrap-Up
This summer has been one for the record books. Crazy solar eclipse. Heat records shattered across California. Flooding of biblical proportions in Texas. Looming (nuclear?) war with North Korea. Are we nearing the end of the world, at least as we know it? Hopefully not – but it is getting near the end of the […]
Common Myths About San Jose CA Real Estate
Common Myths About Selling A Home In San Jose CA Such as Location is the Single Most Important Factor, Pricing Does Not Matter in a Hot Market, It Is Better to Offer a Credit Than Complete Repairs Ahead of Time, You Get Back the Entire Cost of Home Renovations
January 2017 Real Estate Update
You probably haven’t noticed because of all the rain, but I’ve been keeping an eye on the calendar for you. Would you believe that we’re more than half way through the first quarter of 2017 already? Despite the torrential rains, flooding, land slides, and innumerable road closures, our local real estate market is slogging through […]
California 2017 Real Estate Market Forecast
Last week, I attended a presentation by Leslie Appleton-Young, who is the Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors (CAR). She gave a very interesting presentation, most of which was actually about what’s happened so far in 2016, finishing up with a California 2017 real estate market forecast. Listening to what she has to […]
How to Make Sense of Bay Area Home Prices
If you’re like most people, you’re probably wondering how to make sense of Bay Area home prices? These are crazy times for the California real estate market, there’s no doubt about it. We just hit a new record median home price in Santa Cruz county – the median home price in May 2016 for single […]
Pitfalls of the HERO Program
What drawbacks could there possibly be with a government-sponsored program to enable homeowners in San Jose to reduce their utility bills while helping to save the environment? I’m talking here about the pitfalls of the HERO Program, which if you’re not familiar with it, is the Home Energy Renovation Opportunity program. Turns out, there’s a […]