Winter is an excellent time for what I call an annual personal “housing audit.” For many folks, winter provides the breathing space between the holiday season and spring’s arrival. Tax filing deadlines and busier outdoor [Read More…]
With property values rising in many areas of the country, local residents wonder if that is happening here. There are fewer foreclosures than there were a few years ago. But the question of values rising [Read More…]
Like most REALTORS®, I work with both buyers and sellers. On the buying side, homebuyers in the Peninsula market right now — no matter what the buyers’ age or price range — seem to prefer to purchase renovated, like [Read More…]
One of the first questions that homebuyers and their REALTOR® need to discuss is financial: What price range are you interested in, or how expensive a house can you afford? In addition to income, credit [Read More…]
In American culture and society, we are proud to be a “nation of homeowners.” And rates of home ownership in neighborhoods, communities and metropolitan areas are often proxies for evaluating stability of real estate values/tax [Read More…]
With fewer Peninsula houses on the market this season, it is a good time to think about whether it is “time to sell.” For whatever the reason—upsizing, downsizing, relocating, or changing life circumstances—there will be [Read More…]
Probably the most common question asked of Realtors® today, is whether it is now a “good time” to buy or sell residential property. In all honesty, since we are paid through commissions from sales, the [Read More…]
Today’s home buyers are heavily influenced by cable channel HGTV, which has progressed beyond programs that report on design trends, to the point where the network is driving those trends. An example is how granite [Read More…]
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