Living In Sonoma County, CA

Coming Soon! 3 bed 3 bath Cotati home for sale.    ***  Not on the market just yet, coming soon, coming soon, COMING SOON!  *** Looking for an updated, clean, three bedroom home for sale in Cotati that is in super condition? Luck has it, a home with that description will be coming on the Cotati r...

Sonoma County Real Estate Market Report April 2014We had a slight uptick in the number of new listings for Single Family Residences during April 2014, compared to April 2013. But there are still more buyers out there than available homes, creating a supply and demand situation that has continued ...

Sonoma County Home Sales April 2014Who put the brakes on? Are buyers getting so frustrated that they have stopped looking for a home to buy? Actually, that would not be a bad thing inventory wise, we are still lacking in that category. This past month, we didn’t see double digit increases across ...

  4 Bed 3 Bath Home For Sale Santa Rosa CA     Do you need a home with 4 bedrooms in Santa Rosa? This super clean, well cared for home is availble as of 4/25/2014. Situated on a corner lot, this beauty is 50 ft from the end of the road so traffic is pretty much nil. Across the street is a huge me...

Sonoma County Home Sales March 2014Home prices continue to rise in Sonoma County while multiple buyers bid on the same homes, as there is very little inventory on the market. There are a couple of reasons inventory is so low. First, although home prices have consistently increased over the past t...

Sonoma County Real Estate Market Report March 2014We had a slight uptick in the number of new listings for Single Family Residences during March 2014, compared to March 2013. But there are still more buyers out there than available homes, creating a supply and demand situation that has continued ...

The rise and fall of FHA loans Quite often I get asked if seller's are accepting offers with FHA or VA financing. I never discourage a buyer who is qualified to buy a home regardless of the type of financing they have chosen (or has chosen them), but it piqued my curiosity as to how home purchase...

Home Buyers: Ask if the Seller's loan is FHA After the demise of stated income loans and 100% financing in 2007, FHA loans became very popular here in Sonoma County. I did a quick calculation of homes sold over the past 6 years, and found that 17 percent of the homes sold where a new loan was ori...

  I'm one of those folks who don't care for change, but change is what's coming to Sonoma County in the form of the largest casino in California. Oh my. Many are fearful of what follows in a casino's footsteps ... pawn shops are at the top of my mental list. The bright side is that the Graton Res...

When I was a kid, playing Army meant playing with green plastic GI's. Back then, we had to use our imagination as to what "war" looked and felt like. We would line up our green men, advance them towards the opposing line and attempt to make realistic gun and grenade sounds. I think the only time ...