Alameda California Real Estate Blog

Another week has passed and two more to go before I go on a brief vacation, (a long weekend). I hope many of you reading this got a chance to visit Alameda's Park Street Art and Wine Festival. It was packed, I hear upwards of 100,000 packed the 4 block long affair over the two days. While I'm looking at the gourmet food booths Nancy is ...

It's been a pretty run of the mill week for Nancy and I. Our townhome listing is set to close early next week. The activity on our triplex and duplex has been brisk. We received an offer on each property. Unfortunately neither was acceptable to the seller as written. Besides, the other agent wrote the offers on the wrong contract. When I ...

  It has become apparent, that there are just not enough hours in a day to get everything accomplished. Both Nancy and I have a number of buyers we are currently showing homes to while managing our own listings. What I see suffering is my posting to our blog that I have been doing twice a week so I have decided once a week will have to do ...

Save the date Friday May 16th for the 8th Annual Island Classic golf tournament of which I am a co-chair again. Very profitable sponsoring opportunities are available starting from as low as $150 for a tee or green sign and I just happen to have a flier I can pass along if you are interested.You also may want to put together your own foursome or ...

I found a good article about preparing your home for sale that is right on the mark, enjoy. Most of us have an emotional attachment to our home, and while this is a good thing, it is best if we can be detached from it when it comes to the sale of our house. Emotional attachment can lead to lost equity. There are many areas where our emotions ...

I came upon this article written by a realtor in El Cajon in the San Diego area. He states a number of good tips Nancy and I recommend to our clients who are selling their homes. The internet really is the starting point and how your home is marketed on it is extremely important. Christmas is over, and many of us homeowners had planned to put our ...

Last night (Sunday) after returning from the gym I flipped the TV on and noticed a show I read about in Sundays SF Chronicle as being on. It apparently premiered last Wednesday on the HGTV station. I am talking about the new show called "Sleep On It" where prospective buyers spend a night in a home they are considering making an offer ...

REALTORS® are hearing more complaints from new home buyers about the constant barrage of credit offers due to “trigger lists.” Trigger lists are generated when a credit inquiry is made, usually upon application for a mortgage or other credit product. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is encouraging REALTORS® and consumers to ...

I met Pat Kitano from Transparent Real Estate this afternoon and was quite impressed with what he had to say. This is an article from his blog that is important to todays real estate market in the bay area. Enjoy the post. No one seems to be saying this, so... The Fed's switch to addressing the credit markets and the cooling economy with ...

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