As the first and longest running real estate podcast in the SF Bay Area, The Gory Details is back again for its first installment of 2011. Back again for her semi-annual update is the one, the only, Carole Rodoni. Carole is formerly president of Fox and Carskadon Realtors, COO of Cornish & Carey Real Estate, [...]
It’s that time of year again, and here’s the one key thing that I, Ed Gory, predict with some level of certainty that will happen this year in real estate news: Predictions on Bay Area real estate will be contradictory That’s right, contradictory. Some articles will point to data showing positive upswings. Other articles will [...]
I won’t pretend to know everything. But what I just saw right now made me laugh/squirm/say “WTF are you thinking?”. And I just had to write and rant. For anyone who knows me, knows I’m not a big believer of print advertising in the real estate world. When over 80% of potential buyers get their [...]
In perusing the vast swath of RE articles on Alltop, I am always amused/perplexed/stupefied by the contradicting reports on housing predictions. Here’s two examples — which one do you side with? “Experts Say Housing Recovery is Still Years Away” versus “58% of Americans Expect Housing Market to Recover After 2012″ Good heavens! Who’s right here? American [...]
As the first and longest running real estate podcast in the SF Bay Area, The Gory Details is back in October for its next installment of 2010. In this episode, Ed interviews the one, the only, Carole Rodoni. Carole is formerly president of Fox and Carskadon Realtors, COO of Cornish & Carey Real Estate, President [...]
Lowball offers rarely, if ever, get accepted. There, I said it. Almost everything you read in the news these days about the housing market points to it being a Buyer’s Market. That is true to some extent, but not 100% of the time. There are neighborhoods out there that are exceptions to the rule, and [...]
The San Mateo County Association of Realtors (SAMCAR), is working to mobilize our members to assist the dozens of families that have lost their homes in the wake of the terrible San Bruno fire last night. (1) DONATIONS TO THE SAMCAR FOUNDATION We are asking for your help. Monetary donations can be made to the [...]
Here we are in September — it’s almost about time for homeowners out there to get a little present in the mail: your property tax bill! And of course, on that bill, you can see what your property is currently assessed at. Found a good article on this topic on the ChangeofAddress.org website. Here’s the [...]
Here at Intero, we have a charitable foundation (the Intero Foundation), fully funded by the agents at Intero, whose goal is to positively impact the well being of children in the communities in which we work, by supporting organizations focused on assisting in their education and personal development. Last Monday, we presented a check for [...]
The SAMCAR Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the San Mateo County Association of REALTORS® – of which yours truly is a member, announced their third quarter 2010 grant recipients recently and awarded three organizations $12,500 in grant monies. The Foundation provided $5000 grants to both Habitat for Humanity and Shelter Network to support the work they do in [...]
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