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Pump House at Emerald Ridge

Hot Real Estate in Sonoma County

Nobody wants to buy at the top of the market. On the other hand, trying to practice market timing in real estate has proven to be almost impossible. Prices nationally are drifting slightly lower, but some markets have already started to strengthen and prices may be rising. If you aren’t keeping track of what’s going [...]

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Emerald Ridge Views

Emerald Ridge – Healdsburg’s Ready-To-Build Sites

Architects and their clients have to be picky about where they choose to build. The right decision will save significant time and money.  A poorly selected site can cost much more to prepare for building than anyone anticipates. A construction project starting on a raw parcel has a long list of tasks that have to [...]

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Emerald Ridge

Healdsburg Emerald Ridge Estate Lots

Emerald Ridge estate lots outside Healdsburg are finally ready to view in person.  The lot creation process takes time, and the creation of these twenty acre lots has been at least a five year process of planning,  government approvals, and site work.  The asphalt roads and driveways have been completed and each lot now has underground [...]

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Healdsburg Luxury Property - with tree house

Healdsburg Luxury Real Estate

Luxury real estate in Healdsburg got a boost recently with three beautiful newly listed homes  ranging from $1.25 million to $3.95 million, a wonderful 56 acre Chalk Hill view parcel with money making vineyards,  and an unlisted and off market showing of a $10,000,000 ultra-premium estate property that is sure to find favor with discreet buyers [...]

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Sonoma County Home Affordability Index

Advice for Fence-Sitting Buyers in Sonoma County

If your cousin, brother,  or best friend’s dog was warning about the housing bubble in 2006, I would pay a lot of attention to them today. Unfortunately, almost everyone else missed the bubble  in spite of all sorts of warning signs that we were in an unsustainable market. It’s human nature to go with the [...]

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Healdsburg Land for Sale

200 Acre Healdsburg Country Property – Views and Vineyard Potential

It’s sometimes easy to forget how beautiful Sonoma County property can be. Our Healdsburg Sotheby’s International Realty office toured a wonderful new 201 acre land listing just south of Healdsburg recently. Most of the staff hadn’t seen this ranch before and weren’t familiar with the dramatic views possible just a few hundred feet above the [...]

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Cloverdale Fixer at 315 N Cloverdale Blvd

Cloverdale Fixer

Cloverdale is suffering from the housing bubble collapse, but that doesn’t mean the town is dead. It just means that bargains are available for buyers who would like to be in Healdsburg, but have been priced out of the market. There’s plenty of charm in Cloverdale, the wine tastes just as great, and the money [...]

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Sonoma Country Home

Sonoma Country Property Fuels Dreams

Country living has a vivid place in the American imagination. You might be toiling in a cubicle today, but in your heart you are already planting the deep, rich beds of asparagus that you’ll be eating in your retirement. While you answer the next call stacked up in the queue, you can just feel the [...]

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Two Rock

The Two Rocks of Two Rock

We often speak place names without thinking about what they mean. For instance, there are four Grand Views in Sonoma County, one each in Sebastopol, Healdsburg, Petaluma, and Camp Meeker. Some of these live up to their name with truly grand views. Others, not so much.  There are oak place names all over  Sonoma County. [...]

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Sonoma Roof on Broadway

Sonoma Residential Prices

Knowing residential pricing trends makes you a smarter buyer. Period. Whether you’re chasing an REO investment or competing against multiple offers for your personal dream house, you need to know what other people are doing. Real estate brokers and agents are very good at protecting the confidentiality of their current offers, so the only way [...]

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