It takes courage to buy or sell in today's Berkeley Real Estate market!Read the papers.. doom and gloom.Economy changing.Jobs uncertain.And yet the Berkeley real estate market remains strong! We've heard of numerous homes which received 3 to 7 offers in the past few Continue Reading
I love crunching numbers... and reading maps... and finding correlations and relationships.So when someone asked me about the relationship between sales price and days on the MLS, I thought about it for a bit, and quickly came up with the following graphs.Top graph - 2007 Continue Reading
From the Berkeley Hills... to the Berkeley Flatlands... Berkeley is special!In the past few days we've listed, and shown, homes all over town. Having lived in Berkeley for over 30 years we've learned that every neighborhood has its special places... whether you're the Continue Reading
Some very cool uses for the camera in your cell phone!Carol and I spend several hours every Thursday to preview the new Berkeley MLS homes on the market for our clients.. then prepare a detailed report for them to review online at their convenience. We started using our Continue Reading
What's the right price to offer on that new Claremont Neighborhood home which just came on the market?It depends upon recent sales information!We provide detailed Comparable Sales Analysis (aka "CMA") for our sellers and buyers so they have the information they need to make Continue Reading
Just read in the Daily Cal that Mabel Bolton left $150,000 to neighborhood's Thousand Oaks Elementary School. There once were several liquor stores on Solano Avenue when we first moved to the Thousand Oaks Neighborhood. Bolton's liquors was one of them. The article talks Continue Reading