Ar_home_b_search
 



country property: Under All is the Land - 11/15/11 06:20 PM
The phrase "Under all is the land" is the first sentence of the Realtor's Preamble to the Code of Ethics. The land is what keeps me inspired to show country property whenever I can. I find my pleasure in hiking the woods, meadows, and hills of Sonoma County. The plants and animals that live on top give us changing scenery and scampering, fleeting glimpses of another world, but under all is the land.
I have a couple of clients I have been walking with who found what they were looking for this weekend. The couples are very different from each other, … (2 comments)

country property: Walking Sonoma County Land - 05/30/11 11:34 AM
Nothing sells a country property better than walking around on it. My experience has been that a couple of hours spent hiking the trails and perimeter is more effective at persuading buyers to embrace a property than any drive-around tour could hope to. I don't know whether it's a function of knowing the property better, the investment of time and sweat, or the realization that the property is bigger than the print-outs make it look. It actually doesn't matter which of those reasons is effective. I just know that when my encouragement to walk has worked, the buyers appreciate the property, … (1 comments)

country property: Sebastopol California bucks the market trends - 04/19/08 12:01 PM
Sometimes a graph is the best way to demonstrate a trend. I have been working with Altos Research to develop charts for Sonoma County. I love country property and small towns, so I generated some charts for Sonoma, Sebastopol, Healdsburg, and some of the other agriculture-surrounded towns in Sonoma County's wine country. One of the surprises that jumped out at me was that Sebastopol, alone among the Sonoma County towns, has continued strong median prices in the top quartile of the market.
This is a live chart, so the data will change over time, but as of the middle of April, 2008, the upper quartile … (1 comments)

 
Dave-color Rainmaker_large

Dave Roberts

Healdsburg, CA

More about me…

Healdsburg Sotheby's International Realty

Address: 709 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA, 95448

Office Phone: (707) 433-6555

Cell Phone: (707) 869-1884

Email Me

Real estate and green building information for Sonoma County California with an emphasis on Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Forestville, Guerneville, Graton, and the Russian River Valley, Dry Creek Valley. and Alexander Valley.I write a lot about REO property, fixers, luxury estate homes, and vineyard property. I love to analyze sales trends.


Listings

Links

Archives

RSS 2.0 Feed for this blog