Downtown & Midtown Sacramento - Rob McQuade ABR

"What's happening in the Sacramento market?"by Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Sacramento Real Estate I just had a great exchange on a real estate forum with a professional in the East Bay asking about the Sacramento market: Q. Can anyone answer this general question, in regards to Sacrament...

"Sacramento's bungalow heritage & 'Bungalow Row'"by Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Midtown Sacramento Real Estate The Arts & Crafts Movement in architectural design came to Downtown and Midtown Sacramento at the turn of the 20th century. The period between 1900 and 1920 welcomed a new housi...

"New form makes loan terms easier to understand"by Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Sacramento Real Estate It's not often that I can thank the federal government for simplifying things, but the proposed Good Faith Estimate (GFE) form released by Housing and Urban Development (HUD) turns what ...

"For Sale By Owner" Sheraton going to developers Taylor, CIMby Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Downtown Sacramento Real Estate It seems David Taylor is the golden child of Downtown Sacramento development these days. During a time when grandiose projects like John Saca's Towers and Craig Nass...

"Only YOU can prevent neighborhood explosions"by Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Sacramento Real Estate I just got word from a friend in Minneapolis about an explosion a couple blocks from her home. The cause? A portion of the gas line in a vacant home was damaged by copper thieves stripping...

"March 29th: Test drive a fuel-cell vehicle with CaFCP"by Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®West Sacramento Real Estate Ever wonder what driving a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle is like? This weekend you'll have a chance to take one for a test drive at the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) ...

"April 20th: Sacramento Earth Day 2008"by Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Downtown Sacramento Real Estate Sacramento once again thinks globally and acts locally at the 2008 Earth Day celebration, being held this year at Southside Park at 8th & W downtown. The event is being held on Sunday, A...

"Pricing is out for the Sutter Brownstones"by Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Midtown Sacramento Real Estate It's taken me a couple days to post the real numbers to make sure the information was meant to be public, but I confirmed with Mollie at LoftWorks that pricing for the Sutter Brownsto...

A local plan for sustainabilityby Rob McQuade, ABR, Sacramento REALTOR®Sacramento CA Real Estate In December the City of Sacramento adopted its first Sustainability Master Plan, but the real step toward making Sacramento a truly sustainable city came this week with the adoption of the 2008 Sustai...

Green on FNine on F: The Greenest Homes in Sacramento.It was late summer 2007 when I first heard about a big "green" residential project that was being built downtown in the Alkali Flats neighborhood. I was a bit cautious at first because so many businesses had begun jumping on the "green" bandwa...