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Mortgage Loan Payoff

Mortgage Calculator and Rates

Try both of these handy tools for planning your Sonoma County home purchase. The first is a great tool to see the progress of your payments and figure your monthly costs. The lower tool provides a real time look at mortgage rates and their trend over time. Powered by Home Mortgage Powered by CA Interest [...]

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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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Petaluma Roblar Road Barn

Sonoma County Barns

You can’t go wrong showing a picture of a barn on a Sonoma County real estate listing. People love the look of an aging barn more than almost any other real estate image.  We are mainly urban dwellers these days, but we still like the echoes of how our grandparents and earlier generations lived.  Sadly, [...]

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Sonoma County Home for Sale

Price per Square Foot in Sonoma County

Price per square foot is a useful tool for the real estate industry. Real estate agents use it for  informal appraisals and professional appraisers make use of it for formal valuations. For home buyers it’s one way to compare homes of different sizes but similar construction quality. Contractors and architects use it as a shorthand [...]

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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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Florence St in Sebastopol

Sebastopol Residential Sales

Sebastopol recorded 24 residential sales in June which helped bring the first half of 2011 to a close with 102 homes sold.  That matches nearly exactly the figures from the first half of 2010, but without the First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit that drove many buyers into the market in 2010 in search of [...]

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Florence St in Sebastopol

Santa Rosa Dominates Real Estate Sales

Santa Rosa rules the real estate market in Sonoma County. No city is close in population or number of housing units, so any chart either has to have an extended scale or leave Santa Rosa out of the figures. I made two charts to illustrate just how tough Santa Rosa makes it for the rest [...]

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200 Austin Creek - Cazadero

Sonoma County Real Estate by City

Don’t  believe everything you read. Especially from me. I love looking at data to figure out trends, but using a six month snapshot of average residential sales prices runs the risk of skewed results from a few great sales…or a few lousy ones. Sonoma County has a huge variety of real estate available. We have [...]

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