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7 Tips to Save Your Sanity During the Loan Application Process!

You may have experienced some level of stress in buying your San Mateo Coastal home due to the very rigorous rules and regulations in the loan process. Or you may be looking into the San Mateo Coastal real estate market and are uneasy about applying for a loan because you don’t quite know where to [...]

Bay Area’s High-End Housing Market Gaining Momentum by Rick Turley

Along with the beautiful early spring weather, the Bay Area’s housing market is gradually starting to warm up, too. We’re off to a much more robust and healthy start this year, and it’s not just in the lower price ranges. The mid-to-upper level market is picking up from Silicon Valley through the Peninsula and up [...]

Sellers Now Have a Short Window of Opportunity

Super Bowl Sunday can’t come fast enough for the real estate market.  Historically, this is when the floodgates open and sellers start putting their homes on the market.  Good news for Buyers but not as good for Sellers.  Read what is happening in the Bay Area below. “What’s happening? First-time buyers are rushing to take [...]

New Years blog-dedicated to Bobbie and Debbie who will be the best breast cancer survivors ever!

2009 is wrapping up and most people can’t wait for it to be over.  Maybe part of this is finishing the Holiday Season. It’s been said that the gathering of the clan brings a rush of adrenaline to the calmest.  Holiday stress comes in several forms.  First there is the last minute shopping that the [...]

Monday Morning Market Update Wk#48 December 7, 2009

This past week, our listings all had multiple showings.  The open houses this past Sunday were slow.  Could have been the weather, the football games or the season.  This will be the time that will be remembered as having some of the best real estate deals.  Inventory is low due to homes taken off the market as [...]

Monday Morning Market Update November 30, 2009 Wk#47

Buyers were out again this weekend and seriously looking with their agents.  This will be the time that will be remembered as having some of the best real estate deals.  Inventory is low due to homes taken off the market as the Holiday Season approaches. Still a Buyers Market – HALF MOON BAY through MONTARA,CALIFORNIA with [...]

Monday Morning Market Update November 23, 2009 Wk#46

This weekend the open houses were very well attended once again. Buyers are looking at properties for the second or third time, still trying to make a decision to purchase.  Some buyers have lost a few houses they liked due to waiting too long to make an offer before the house got sold.  A home that [...]

Monday Morning Market Update November 9th Wk#45

This weekend the open houses were very well attended.  Lots of new buyers looking to get in on the Tax Credit extention with an April 2010 deadline to enter into a purchase contract.  Maybe we’ll see more buyer anxiety thou it is still looking like a buyers market in the Half Moon Bay communities.  Pacifica [...]

It’s on the Table by Rick Turley, Coldwell Banker SF Bay Area President

Rick has given us the update on the possibility of extending the tax credit.  Also check the market news from last week for the coast and San Mateo County. “There’s no question that the government’s first-time homebuyer tax credit has spurred a significant amount of sales this year.  Latest estimates show that some 400,000 additional [...]

Monday Morning Market Update October 26, 2009 Wk#43

Still a Buyers Market – HALF MOON BAY through MONTARA,CALIFORNIA with just under half of the listings listed at over 1 Million. The Million plus price range is finally seeing activity. Active Listings-121 Single Family Homes. 52 listed over 1 Million, 15 listed at $900,000 to 1 Million. Pending Sales-36 with 14 listed under $700,000 [...]