In late 2019, Governor Gavin Newsome signed two bills into effect for the state of California, AB-818 and AB-68, which were designed to positively impact the state's housing market by making California ADU's much easier to build. These bills [...]
Propostion 60, which is applicable to Sonoma County, provides tax benefits to those individuals that are thinking about downsizing. How this works is that it allows individuals to transfer their property tax basis of their current home TO the [...]
The Sonoma County housing market has heated up once again. This time, due to the pandemic, the SIP and most importantly the "work from home" orders, it is causing many to rethink their lifestyles. If people no longer need [...]
March 2020 marks the beginning of a new era of the way businesses "if" or "can" run, while we move through the transition we are currently in. Having the way we do things and the way businesses run come [...]
2020 now marks the year of historic global and economic changes… We all know how this started. What we didn’t realize is how a virus would affect our world globally. The economic markets have been in reaction mode since [...]
Today is March 7th, 2020 and as of late, we have been watching the markets react to 2 different topics making the headlines; The Elections and The Corona Virus... The Topics What is interesting at this time is that [...]
It has taken some time to gauge the market in Sonoma County, especially after the Tubbs Fire of 2017. With such a tremendous loss of homes, it threw the housing and rental market quickly into a tailspin that escalated [...]
THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT WE CHOOSE TO HAVE ARE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISIONS WE MAKE. The people we choose to align ourselves with, can influence our outlook and motivation. They can also be the ones who don't provide [...]
2019 was a very productive year for real estate throughout California. Here in Sonoma County, the market kept a steady pace completely through the holidays, even though inventory was reduced, which is normal for the end of the year. [...]
Last week I spoke with a staff member of the the "vacation rental" department of the PRMD (Planning and Resource Management Department). I was told that as of November 22, 2019, according to the PRMD of Santa Rosa, the [...]
