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sonoma: Sonoma County Housing Trends - A Grand Flatness... - 01/19/12 06:33 PM
I have a love hate relationship with charts. I love them...everybody else hates them. Unfortunately, there is no better way to convey a huge amount of information as quickly as you can graphically so I will continue to make occasional charts when the results can illuminate a story.
A lot of people are on the sidelines of real estate today. Interest rates are as low as we're likely to see them. The affordability index for my area is the best it has been in decades, so homes are as affordable as they have been in a long time. However, in spite … (4 comments)
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sonoma: Sonoma REO trends - 10/19/11 11:17 AM
I promised Dick a post about our local REO market where savvy listing agents are getting the banks to fund improvments to bring the homes to turnkey status. In most regions of the country an REO property is a pure AS-IS transaction with banks being unwilling to spend additional money on properties that are already financial losers. That's generally true in Sonoma County as well, but the market activity in recent months is anything but normal.
The chart on the right shows that we have been at less than two months of inventory since March of this year. Demand from owner-occupants … (2 comments)
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sonoma: Sonoma County Million Dollar Market Report for September - 10/02/11 11:42 AM
Sonoma County residential sales reports for September are in and willing buyers and sellers managed to run the paperwork gauntlet to record 415 total residential sales of which ten were over a million dollars.
There is no single factor behind these high dollar sales. Several of the high end homes feature large vineyards that would qualify them as small farms, but two of the homes were on lots that are only one fifth of an acre. Several of the homes were quite large, with the biggest measuring over 7,000 square feet. On the other hand, the average size of the homes … (1 comments)
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sonoma: Speechless Sunday - Inviting Entrance in Sonoma - 02/20/11 11:08 AM
I like construction and landscape details that make a house stand out from its neighbors. When it's done in a classic fashion that reminds me of small town America and classic homeowner dreams I get even more enthused. This property on Broadway in Sonoma combines a well-detailed white picket fence with a wonderful rose-covered arbor.
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sonoma: Sounds of Silence - 08/14/10 09:29 PM
I met some new buyers today in Sonoma Valley. For those who aren't familiar with Sonoma, it's an early center for much of California's modern history. The Bear Flag Rebellion was centered here and many historical buildings remain, mainly clustered around the town's big plaza.
The town is flatter than much of Sonoma County, so it makes for great bicycle riding and walking. It also has made for an easy network of roads, many of which allow speeds that start to generate road noise. My clients had talked about a lot of their goals for a vacation property, but we hadn't … (3 comments)
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sonoma: Sonoma County Luxury Home Trends - 07/15/10 02:35 AM
Luxury homes aren't necessarily expensive and expensive homes aren't necessarily luxurious. A discussion has to start somewhere, however, so for the purpose of this post, Sonoma County luxury homes will be defined by me as anything costing over a million bucks.
Since the summer of 2005 there have been more than 1,500 home sales in that luxury price range in Sonoma County. What emerges from the data is a picture of a market that is holding reasonably steady. The average price of a home in this category has slowly increased over the last five years, but has been in the neighborhood … (2 comments)
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sonoma: REO, Short Sale, and Open Market Sale Trends in Sonoma County - 05/18/10 02:48 PM
Sonoma County Sales Trends
It's been awhile since one of my graph-a-palooza posting sessions, so I decided to look at some of the trends in residential sales in Sonoma County. Market trends aren't always visible in the short run, so I grabbed sales data from January 1, 2009 until the end of April of this year. That's a 16 month overview and is long enough to span two quiet times in the market and what I called the market bottom in a post in April of last year.
There are two clear trends that are worth noting here. First, Sonoma County … (2 comments)
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sonoma: Why You Should Purchase Your Next Home in Sonoma County, California - 09/15/07 03:57 PM
Hi Paris,
When you sidled up to me at the party and whispered, "You're hot!", and I told you I'd been happily married for thirty years, I thought that would be the last I would hear from you. I was pleased to get your letter talking about how much you already like the wine and food lifestyle in Healdsburg. It's not every day Paris Hilton is looking for a home in Sonoma County. I've put together an overview along with three interesting listings for you. Let me start by saying we're pretty casual in Sonoma County so I hope it's okay to … (9 comments)
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sonoma: Fixers - 08/16/07 03:47 PM
Fixers are my favorites. I know it's a strange choice; sort of like preferring liver and onions to lobster. Maybe it's the same instinct that makes kids want to adopt stray pets or adults to want to care for crying children. Whatever the cause, I am a dedicated seeker of distressed dwelling. Whenever I see peeling paint, a sloping floor, or overgrown gardens, I get the itch to fix.
Only about 1 in 10 buyers is willing to indulge my "check out this great fixer" routine, but they're the ones I have the most fun with. Sadly, many sellers today aren't … (0 comments)
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Dave Roberts
Healdsburg,
CA
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Healdsburg Sotheby's International Realty
Address: 709 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, CA, 95448
Office Phone: (707) 433-6555
Cell Phone: (707) 869-1884
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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.
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