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Cherry Historical District

Searching Sonoma County Real Estate

The internet has changed everything about how buyers find houses.  The old MLS guild mentality* still exists in some places, but northern California is online in a big way. Most Sonoma County listings are on realtor.com,  zillow.com,  trulia.com, and a host of other syndicating sites. Craigslist is a dominating force all over the country, but [...]

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Sonoma County Housing Trends

The Great Equilibrium

Sonoma County 2011 real estate stats show another boring year of price stability. For anxious buyers and sellers of Sonoma County real estate, the news of a flat marketplace is probably the most reassuring thing they could hear. They’re  not going to get rich on price appreciation like everyone thought they would in the hot [...]

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Sonoma County Percolation Test and Groundwater Determination

Perc Explained

Country property has a vocabulary all its own. One often confusing term is “perc” or “perc test”.  Perc is real estate jargon for “percolation”, a perfectly good word for the ability of soil to absorb moisture. Still, the word percolation manages to baffle people more accustomed to coffee percolation than  septic systems.  Since percolation is [...]

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Emerald Ridge Views

Emerald Ridge – Healdsburg’s Ready-To-Build Sites

Architects and their clients have to be picky about where they choose to build. The right decision will save significant time and money.  A poorly selected site can cost much more to prepare for building than anyone anticipates. A construction project starting on a raw parcel has a long list of tasks that have to [...]

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Sonoma Real Estate Team

Real Estate Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is the right time for me to acknowledge all the great people that I get to work with. Every Sonoma County real estate transaction has an abundance of helping hands.  Some deal with the clients on both sides of the sale. Many more are working as back office professionals assisting with financing, title,  insurance, [...]

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Emerald Ridge

Healdsburg Emerald Ridge Estate Lots

Emerald Ridge estate lots outside Healdsburg are finally ready to view in person.  The lot creation process takes time, and the creation of these twenty acre lots has been at least a five year process of planning,  government approvals, and site work.  The asphalt roads and driveways have been completed and each lot now has underground [...]

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Healdsburg Luxury Property - with tree house

Healdsburg Luxury Real Estate

Luxury real estate in Healdsburg got a boost recently with three beautiful newly listed homes  ranging from $1.25 million to $3.95 million, a wonderful 56 acre Chalk Hill view parcel with money making vineyards,  and an unlisted and off market showing of a $10,000,000 ultra-premium estate property that is sure to find favor with discreet buyers [...]

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Great Rates Tempt Sonoma Home Buyers

Interest Rates Tempt Savvy Sonoma Buyers

Sonoma County home prices are at historically affordable levels. Nearly half of the households in the county can afford the median priced home. That compares to only 9 percent of buyers from just a few years ago in 2006 and 2007. Combining the California Affordability Index with historically low interest rates creates an environment that [...]

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Sonoma County Home Affordability Index

Advice for Fence-Sitting Buyers in Sonoma County

If your cousin, brother,  or best friend’s dog was warning about the housing bubble in 2006, I would pay a lot of attention to them today. Unfortunately, almost everyone else missed the bubble  in spite of all sorts of warning signs that we were in an unsustainable market. It’s human nature to go with the [...]

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Sonoma County harvest Fair

Sonoma County Harvest Fair

It’s time (Sept 30-Oct 2) for the 2011 Sonoma County Harvest Fair. Right on schedule the vineyards around the county are laden with ripening fruit that give testament to the bounty that Luther Burbank loved about Sonoma County. You can’t see the densely grouped clusters without appreciating the gift that nature bestows on us. The [...]

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Healdsburg Land for Sale

200 Acre Healdsburg Country Property – Views and Vineyard Potential

It’s sometimes easy to forget how beautiful Sonoma County property can be. Our Healdsburg Sotheby’s International Realty office toured a wonderful new 201 acre land listing just south of Healdsburg recently. Most of the staff hadn’t seen this ranch before and weren’t familiar with the dramatic views possible just a few hundred feet above the [...]

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