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What the Money Bought in Oakland, California — $2,000,000

What the Money Bought in Oakland, California — $2,000,000

What does $2 million get you in Oakland, California? An awful lot. Today, let's wrap up the What the Money Bought series in Oakland with the $2 million price point. ...
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What the Money Bought in Oakland, California — $1,500,000

What does $1.5 million buy you in Oakland, California? Let's find out as today we're continuing this series "What the Money Bought." Today, we're going to look at the $1.5 million price point in ...
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What the Money Bought in Oakland, California — $1,000,000

What do a million dollars actually buy you in Oakland, California today? To answer that, we will look at the last four years of data from the MLS. Hopefully, this data will tell us what is actually ...
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Zillow is dumping 7,000 homes at a discount

Zillow is offloading 7,000 homes, laying off a quarter of its staff, and taking huge losses. But why do we care? Today, let’s talk about Zillow. Let’s look at what this pause in their iBuyer ...
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Five Questions to Ask When Interviewing a Real Estate Agent

It always blows my mind when I read statistics like the average home buyer interviews less than one agent before deciding who to hire. Maybe that's because you don't know the right questions to ask, ...
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Newsom ends single-family zoning in California | California Senate Bill 8, 9, and 10

"That's it. It's over. From today onwards, there will be no more single-family houses allowed in California." Well, that's not exactly true. There was Senate Bill 9, specifically, signed by Gavin ...

Seller Tips

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Negotiations Part 3 | 7 Strategies for Home Buyers and Sellers | Bay Area Real Estate Tips

So you’ve watched my Real Estate negotiation tips for home buyers and sellers. This time let’s talk about other general strategies you can do to better your chances when negotiating to officially ...
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Negotiations Part 2 | Tips for Home Sellers

Your house is staged, it’s beautiful, it got tons of views online, and a lot of people want to see it! Now, how do you turn this attention into an offer? Watch my negotiation tips for home sellers ...
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Define Agency | Agency Defined | What is agency and why should you care?

Agency is a critical and foundational concept to the relationship you have with your agent. ...

Market Updates

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An Unprecedented Seller’s Market, Super Low inventory, Prices at All-time Highs, and How We Got Here | Bay Area Housing Market 2021

An unprecedented seller's market, super low inventory, prices are all-time highs, equity spreads are huge right now, and interest rates are at historic lows, or at least have been darn close if ...
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Bay Area Real Estate Market Update for August 2021 | Preemptive Offers, Shrinking Competition, and Anecdotes from On-the-Ground

Just when you thought you had figured it out. Shrinking competition, preemptive offers, and top-end buyers duking it out? Today, I wanted to do a market update to share some anecdotes, thoughts, and ...
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Did the Bay Area Real Estate Market just shift?

When is the market going to turn? Maybe it already has. I know that the title might have piqued your attention, so let's get started.Today, I have another Bay Area Real Estate market update for you. ...
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Is the Inventory Dam going to break? | Real Estate Supply and Demand

If you were intrigued by the title, I have a feeling that you also want to know something about the supply side of our real estate market. I've already talked about a lot of things on the demand side, ...
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Bay Area Real Estate Market Update 2021 – Don’t Celebrate Just Yet!

As a follow up to last week's market update, today, I want to show you some data from the California Association of Realtors (CAR) which I found absolutely fascinating. The general trend? Things are ...
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Bay Area Housing Market Update Q2 2021 – Bubble Trouble??

Inman, a real estate news publication that talks about real estate industry-related news, recently put out a series called "Bubble Trouble." This series shared four stats that will give us hope and ...