In Seattle the median price for a single family home is $481,000 so unless you can put about 13% down you’ll need a jumbo loan (which is any loan over $417,000). Well the fallout from the sub-prime lending debacle is affecting some lender’s ability to provide jumbo loans even to well qualified buyers. Elizabeth Rhodes […]
Hoping to Borrow More than $417,000? Good Luck! Read More »
Bay Area real estatites (I’m working on getting my own new words added to the dictionary), here are a few workshops, seminars, classes, and the like to help you be more savvy. Most of these edifying services are free, so you have nothing to lose but ignorance. Enjoy! Wednesday Lead-Safe Painting and Remodeling: Presented by
SF: Seminars for Sellers, Buyers, and Everyone In-between Read More »
This time a year ago, we were a sleepy little blog; doing what we could to fill the pages with the most-clicked property of the day. A few iterations later, there’s more content but the original intent remains: provide that which doesn’t exist within the confines of an MLS listing. Recent sales, price reductions, local
Sweet Digs Lands in Southern California Read More »
The Meridian, the sixteen unit luxury condo complex in Winslow, is in deep doo doo. From the outside it always reminded me of the Fireman’s Fund building in my hometown in California, but that’s not the issue. Nestled in a sort of industrialish section of Knechtel Avenue, the complex offered buyers “superior services, facilities and amenities of fine
Bainbridge Island: The Meridian: “Inspired Living Concept” Gone Awry Read More »
They say all real estate is local but that fact can be applied in different ways. There may be a downturn in property prices nationally, for instance, but high-end homes seem to be immune to it – whether in Mill Valley, Manhattan or Seattle, according to a recent New York Times article. Similarly, one can
Berkeley & Oakland: A Tale Of Two Cities Read More »
Saratoga remains one of the most upscale areas in the Silicon Valley, and the median home price is still $1,995,000 for recent sales on the MLS. From May to June, this was a 13.2% decrease – which does indicate that there are bargains to be had in this beautiful area. The school system here is
Market Snapshot: Saratoga Read More »
From our Fearless Leader, Glenn Kelman, on changes happening on Sweet Digs: Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote that we have in love to learn only this: letting go. Everything else comes naturally. In starting Sweet Digs, a blog that provided independent, eyewitness reviews of houses for sale, we had forgotten this advice. After almost a
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If you have just bought your dream older home, chances are that it still has single-paned windows. One of the smartest home upgrades you can make is having double paned windows installed as a first remodeling project. Much has been written about the energy saving advantages of double-paned windows, but did you also know that
Improve Your View of the World: Upgrade Your Windows Read More »
Who writes the fluffy house descriptions?! Out-of-work poets, creative writing students, used-car salesmen? Bottom line: words matter. Real-estate listings, not unlike personal ads, are crafted to minimize blemishes and maximize perceived selling points. Decoding home marketing-speak can be just as complicated as figuring out what men really mean when they say “I love you” or
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