The housing market nationwide went through a tremendous surge upward, propagated greatly by the pandemic and changes to our lives. Whether people were leaving the cities for more rural destinations, you also had many people taking advantage of the [...]
In Sonoma County, our inventory is running a little over half of what it is in a "normal market", something we haven't seen since March of 2020. Normally running somewhere in the listing count of 1100 plus homes on [...]
Human Connection - The Launching Pad for 2021 After the year 2020 and all that was experienced collectively and individually, the paint color trend selections for 2021 were chosen thoughtfully, from what nurtures us. The shelter in place for [...]
The 2020 Synopsis 2020 closed out as a record year with housing market here in Sonoma County. Due to the influx of movement from the pandemic and movement within the county, the median sales price increased by an average [...]
Proposition 19 In November 2020, voters in California passed Proposition 19 which makes changes to the property tax benefits for the several aspects of property ownership. Though it has created substantial benefits for homeowners over the age of 55, [...]
Zillow Launched in 2006 Zillow has gained tremendous popularity since its launch in 2006, by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, both former Microsoft Executives. This tremendous hub of housing information, is one of the nation's leading information centers for [...]
2020 - A Look Back Over The Last 12 Months As we come to the close of one of the biggest transitional years since 2008, 2020 will leave its mark in the history books for monumental change and shifts. [...]
As the month of August began, the numbers came in to assess the movement of home sales in Sonoma County. For the first time ever, Sonoma County has reached an average sales price which now peaks over $1,100,000. (Updated [...]
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 [...]
