In our weekly sales meeting today, one of the main topics was interest rates and mortgages. Why? Interest rates have declined for five weeks in a row now.
Most of us were expecting rates to continue to increase. Our in-house mortgage broker had predicted the 30-year fixed would be at 7% by year end; now […]
This continues the post on Marin Schools and API scores.
The second factor that affects a school’s reputation, and consequently housing values, is the involvement of the parent community. Most Marin schools have very involved parents, with annual auctions to augment the school budgets. We’ve gone to the Corte Madera Larkspur Schools Foundation auction dinner […]
Most Marin schools and districts continue to rank well above the state average in Academic Perfrormance Index scores released by the California Department of Education last week.
If you’d like to see the Marin Independent Journal story on the subject, you can find it here.
How well do Marin schools do? As an example, for grades […]
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble,
If I buy now, will prices double?
We’ve already talked about the fact that we’re in a buyer’s market in Marin. Inventory is high (although declining), percent in contract is less than 22%, and days on market is increasing.
The Marin Independent Journal caught up recently, with the usual bombast - a […]
