Alain Pinel Is Back In Town… Intero Real Estate Services, Inc. the obvious choice for industry icon Alain Pinel, the renowned real estate entrepreneur whose name is on the façade of a leading national real estate company, has returned to Northern California and will serve as Senior Vice President and Managing Officer of Intero [...]
Recently, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law all of the five natural gas transmission pipeline safety bills passed this year by the Legislature. The new laws place California in the national forefront of pipeline safety awareness. In addition, the laws bring into sharper focus the lessons learned from the deadly gas transmission pipeline explosion [...]
Four words a seller never wants to hear. And a message that we, as realtors don’t enjoy delivering to our clients. However, it must be said, time and again, that this is a market of supply and demand. Influenced by economic factors, the job market, mortgage rates, and buyer attitude. Supply and demand. Supply and [...]
House-hunting can be exhilarating and simultaneously cumbersome. Let’s say you’re offered a job here in Silicon Valley, but are completely unfamiliar with the multitude of local neighborhoods, of which there are hundreds. You may feel in over your head. One way to lighten your load is to use the process of elimination and prioritize housing [...]
Did you know???….$737M of single family homes were sold in San Mateo County in Q1-2010, and in Q1 of this year, that number was $736.6M? Or that the average price of a home in San Carlos was almost $75,000 more this past quarter, versus the same period last year? Market stats, market stats, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Doesn’t matter whether it’s a Buyer’s Market, or a Seller’s Market. Lowball offers are as old as the oldest profession. Let’s say you just received an offer from someone who wants to buy your home. You’re excited and relieved, until you realize the offer is an unrealistic lowball price. Insulted? Disappointed? How should you respond [...]
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