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Sonoma County Housing Trends

The Great Equilibrium

Sonoma County 2011 real estate stats show another boring year of price stability. For anxious buyers and sellers of Sonoma County real estate, the news of a flat marketplace is probably the most reassuring thing they could hear. They’re  not going to get rich on price appreciation like everyone thought they would in the hot [...]

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Sonoma Real Estate Team

Real Estate Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the right time for me to acknowledge all the great people that I get to work with. Every Sonoma County real estate transaction has an abundance of helping hands.  Some deal with the clients on both sides of the sale. Many more are working as back office professionals assisting with financing, title,  insurance, [...]

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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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Sonoma County Home Sales Report

I plead guilty to liking numbers. I don’t track the Giants batting averages, but I do know how much houses in Sonoma County are selling for. I also know which areas are hot and which could use more buyers. As a potential buyer or seller of a home in Sonoma County, watching these trends for [...]

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Sonoma County Real Estate Trends

Sonoma County Residential Sales

I’ve been diving into 2010 residential sale details trying to understand the Sonoma County real estate market for myself and my clients. The result that is clearest and a surprise to me was adding 2010 results to the chart of sales for the past four years. This chart shows clearly that we seem to be [...]

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Contingent and Contingencies

The term contingent comes up a lot in real estate.  Buyers looking at web sites see the term connected with a listing and they wonder what contingent means. Buyers entering into a contract hear their agents talking about contingent this and contingent that and a certain amount of confusion sets in. Think of it this [...]

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Selling your home

The essence of  Clint Eastwood’s famous Dirty Harry line, “a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.”  is behind a lot of the real estate market today. Sonoma County home sales are the same as elsewhere in the country. Many people are choosing to move to be near children or to downsize their home. [...]

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