Affordable housing has become an oxymoron on the Peninsula! For Santa Clara County the median price home is $1,172,000 and for San Mateo County it is $1,425,000. Legislative bodies at all levels and the private sector are struggling with potential solutions. At the end of 2017 Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation providing different approaches to relieve the high […]

We recently had a conversation with a young couple considering the purchase of a home. The husband, a successful entrepreneur, asked: “Do I need a Realtor to purchase a home?” The answer is “No, you do not need a Realtor to purchase a home, but you might wish you had one!” The husband’s understanding of […]

Buyers, this is the market that you have been waiting for! Here are four good reasons that you should be actively looking now with the goal of buying a home. Inventory Is Up In most of our local communities the real estate market shifted to a sustained sellers’ market in the Spring 2012, i.e. there […]