2007

  When we say price drops, we mean price drops; actually, in the case of the first property, the price was shockingly low in the first place. Prices are going down even in the hot town of Walnut Creek, from the humblest to the ritziest abodes, as these listings demonstrate. (Drops courtesy of aussiegal on […]

If you look hard enough there are still some new listings popping up despite the fact that we are in the countdown to the holidays and the temperature has dropped into the low 40s on mornings like today. I like the look of 1142 Woodside (above) in the north Berkeley hills which has been on

It’s telling that I visited my first foreclosure last weekend. I have of course read that foreclosures are happening all around us, but because I tend to visit open houses in a certain price range I had assumed I would be unlikely to encounter one. I was wrong. The house I saw was in upper

Everyone knows that the three factors of real estate is Location! Location! Location! But the next factor that influences real estate value after location is conformity. I was reading in the Los Angeles Times today: “ To protect the character of neighborhoods being dwarfed by the construction of oversized homes, Los Angeles officials are weighing