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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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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 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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Sonoma REO House for Sale

Free REO Daily Hotsheet

We host reo.sonoma.net, a companion site to sonoma.net that specializes in Sonoma County REO property. Making it easy to find REO property was the goal, and the map search for foreclosed homes is a very popular feature. So are the lists of foreclosed homes in Santa Rosa and the other cities where you are likely [...]

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REO Sonoma Selling Fast

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 REO Map

Maps Rule! My lovely and talented wife hates it when I start raving about maps. “It’s unseemly”, she says, and besides, “hardly anybody loves maps like you do.” So, here’s the compromise. I won’t rave about this map. Just go check it out. I will say, not ranting or raving mind you, that looking for [...]

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Sonoma County REO – To Overbid or not to Overbid…2008

REO’s Rule! How does three Sonoma County REO sales per day since January 1 sound? How about five per day since May 1? I last wrote about Sonoma County REO properties in January of this year. At that point fewer than 60 REO properties had been sold in the prior six months, or an average [...]

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REO

REO is the acronym for Real Estate Owned. Owned by banks, insurance companies, mortgage companies, and anyone else who ends up holding the deed when foreclosures are finished and there were no bidders (holders of ten or more of these properties are listed in the box on the left). These are the reluctant owners who [...]

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