Your house search has to begin with a dream. Everyone I have ever helped buy a home in Sonoma County has visualized the luxurious bathroom, or the professional stainless kitchen with a vast pantry. For some, it’s the formal gardens with espalliered fruit trees behind the massed roses. For others, it may be a spotless […]
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Conventional wisdom says that a balanced real estate market has approximately six months of for sale inventory. The columns we see in this Sebastopol chart show between two and three months of for sale inventory vs homes sold for most months of the year, strongly favoring sellers. If a buyer is firmly set on living
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Everybody knows that housing prices have gotten out of reach for many. The problem went from bad to terrible relatively recently as illustrated in the chart. In the Beginning Housing prices moderately increased during the first few years of the 2000’s. Beginning in 2003, prices rose rapidly until 2006 as buyers competed for homes using
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My ADU search this week turned up an older home complete with a carriage house and a lot big enough to possibly split. Even better, the location is an easy walk to Memorial Hospital and all the related medical buildings. This property has great potential, but is currently in sad shape. A major fixer, for
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Real Estate Price Definitions By definition, buyers and sellers establish the actual “market price” of any property when they complete a transaction. This is also known as the selling price. The seller and seller’s real estate agent determine the original listing price before the home goes on the market. That process typically includes a competitive
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First time home buyers continue to face tough times. Prices and interest rates remain high. So are property taxes for new buyers with our high sale prices.. When even good wages aren’t enough to qualify for a median home, it’s time to follow the path of previous generations and start small. Our Grandparents and Great-Grandparents
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