Everyone is looking into their crystal balls right now, trying to figure out where the market is going in 2007. Is it going to get worse? Is the bubble popping? Or are we having a “soft landing”, and a return to normalcy?
As usual, the Marin Independent Journal takes it to extremes, with yesterday’s headline […]
Affordable housing in Marin County is as oxymoronic to some people as some of George Carlin’s famous examples, like “semi-boneless ham”, and “military intelligence.”
It is a difficult, complex problem, with no easy right or wrong answers for anyone. People in Tiburon are quite upset over the prospect of Habitat for Humanity putting in some […]
Getting a home inspection when you’re thinking of buying a home in Marin County is about the smartest money you’ll spend. We always recommend a pest and contractor’s inspection, for starters, and then decide where to go from there. Termites can be a problem in Marin’s temperate climate, but often there are many other […]
I wrote a few months back about the need for an FAR law in Corte Madera. FAR stands for floor area ratio, and is the ratio of floor area of a residence to the lot size. So if the FAR is 40 %, and the lot size is 7000 feet, the largest allowable home […]
I had a funny experience over the weekend. An agent called about one of my listings, a great house in Novato, and said, “Don’t you think it’s overpriced?”
Well, we’ve all had listings that were overpriced, but I had just finished a meeting with my seller about this very topic, and we thought for now, […]
