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Thinking of Dying in San Francisco? Just Don?t Plan on Being Buried There!
2007-06-22 08:06:00 You gotta love NPR – except when they launch another one of their interminable guilt-inducing fund raising drives. Heck, I’m not even Catholic, but every time I hear one of their spiels and decline to donate, I feel an urge to go to confession! Speaking of drives and NPR, however, I was going to a ... More About: San Francisco , Dying , Bein , Plan , There
Curious About the Art of Real Estate Blogging? Bloodhound Has An Answer
2007-06-22 00:58:00 Greg Swann and his merry band of re.net bloggers have published — in blog format, of course — a guide to real estate blogging, consisting of many of their finest articles on the topic. Having been a faithful reader of Bloodhound since nearly its inception, most of the content is familiar to me, but it’s ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Curious , Answer , Blogging
Questions and Answers about Foreclosures
2007-06-21 01:33:00 As a real estate consultant, I often get asked questions about foreclosures, especially as the number of these distressed properties skyrockets. According to a recent RealtyTrac press release, there were a total of 176,137 foreclosure filings in May of this year, a 19 percent increase from the previous month and up nearly 90 percent from May 2006. Purchasing ... More About: Questions , Foreclosures , Answers , Questions and Answers , Closure
Just Bought A $26M Atherton Mansion? Here?s How to Keep Zillow From Findin
2007-06-20 20:42:00 An interesting question came in yesterday through my Meebo chat box…is there any way to keep the public (and Zillow , for that matter) from finding out price for which a home sold? What about keeping the name of the new owner confidential? I chatted with some of my friends in the escrow business and here’s ... More About: Mansion , Mans
How Blogging Can Land You In Jail
2007-06-20 00:51:00 Hat tip to Jessica of Inman News for this article which points to an entry on AvivaDirectory about blogging laws. The folks at Redfin just got fined $50K for breaking some arcane NWMLS rules, but the laws discussed here are Federal and State laws and have some real teeth to them. While some of the laws ... More About: Blogging , Land , Jail , Blogg
Tony and Nick Bring Choice to the Boston Real Estate Market
2007-06-19 19:19:00 Tony Longo and Nick Sudano, the brains behind CondoDomain, just announced that they’re moving beyond the business of marketing condos nation-wide and into the business of brokerage itself, apparently specializing in downtown Boston condos. Their site www.anthjames.com, which just launched, is slick, slick, slick, with a professionally done intro video on the home page, ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Real Estate Market , Market
Want Little Johnny To Go To A Great School? Prepare To Plunk Down Some Ser
2007-06-19 18:21:00 The Tuesday edition of the New York Times had an interesting article on the impact of school quality on home prices (note: article may disappear behind a paid firewall shortly.) A study commissioned by Trinity College looked at the impact of school quality — as measured by test performance — on home prices in West Hartford, ... More About: School , Great , Johnny , Litt , Some
Mea Culpa: The San Francisco Chronicle Is, In Fact, Partly Right
2007-06-19 04:36:00 There are two lessons here: First, read the whole article before dismissing it out of hand. Second, real estate now is, more than ever, hyper-local. In my article yesterday about the San Francisco Chronicle ’s Coverage of Bay Area real estate news, I implied I thought they were way off base. I stand by my assertion that ... More About: Fact , San Francisco Chronicle
Home Buyers on the Peninsula Ignoring the San Francisco Chronicle?s Sage Ad
2007-06-18 07:29:00 One of the real estate headlines last week in the San Francisco Chronicle read Would-Be Home Buyers Hesitate. Sufficiently intrigued by the gaping chasm between the headline’s implications and my day-to-day experience on the ground, I read through the article, where I found out: The Bay Area real estate market has become a giant game ... More About: San Francisco Chronicle , Sage
Watch Out Zillow?Here Comes?PatZillow
2007-06-17 02:00:00 Patrick of Patrick.net, one of the leading luminaries of the real estate Armageddon school of thought, recently launched a “real estate dating service.” In a clever twist, and to (at least try to) prevent pesky real estate agents from using the service to do a “bait-and-switch” to land clients, his service initially charged sellers ... More About: Watch , Zillow
Redfin?s Enviable Problem
2007-06-16 18:56:00 In a post aptly titled A Crazy Decision, Redfin ’s blog announced yesterday that they’re temporarily turning away new listing clients. Why? It appears demand for their services has increased so much over the last few weeks — perhaps partly due to the glowing coverage 60 Minutes gave them — that they simply don’t have the ... More About: Problem , Envi
Mortgage Mania - Part 6 - More Trouble in Paradise
2007-06-16 02:02:00 In today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal (which I read online if you are following my Are Newspapers Dead? series) there is an article entitled “More Trouble in Subprime Mortgage s” by Vikas Bajaj discussing an industry report by the Mortgage Bankers Association tracking increasing numbers of foreclosures on subprime loans in California and other states. More ... More About: Paradise , Part , Gage , Arad
Home Buyer Seminar
2007-06-14 08:37:00 So many people I know rent… If you live here in the Bay Area, have a good job, make decent money and have a good credit score (i.e. manage your money well), then it simply doesn’t make sense to be throwing your money away every month. Maybe you don’t understand the home buying process… Maybe ... More About: Home , Buyer , Seminar , Semin , Mina
Mortgage Mania - Part 5 in a continuing series
2007-06-08 22:34:00 If you have been following the Mortgage Mania saga on 3Oceans which looks at how fallout from the increasing numbers of homes bought with subprime loans are going into foreclosure, you might enjoy this tidbit from an article posted on Inman News on Tuesday. . . Speaking via satellite to the International Money Managers Conference in ... More About: Series , Part , Gage
Are Newspapers Dead? Part 2 - Another data point
2007-05-30 21:18:00 In an attempt to be provocative, on May 17th I recently did a post entitiled “Are Newspapers Dead ?“, discussing that the vast majority of visitors to my recent listing in Mountain View found it from online sources, with only about 0.7% coming from the ads I ran in area newspapers. The home is in the ... More About: Data , Part , Point
How Palo Alto ranks schools - We don?t!
2007-05-23 00:52:00 Palo Alto high schools refuse to join Newsweek survey of best schools - SJ Mercury News, May 21, 2007 When I saw the above article in yesterday’s Mercury News, I nearly spit a perfectly good latte all over the paper. The schools in Palo Alto are a major driver of real estate values in the city and are consistently ... More About: Schools , Ranks , Palo
An NWMLS-Compliant Broker Tour Report
2007-05-18 21:31:00 This post is in honor of the citizen journalists at Redfin, whose months of efforts at writing witty, insightful property reviews were brought down by an over-zealous MLS association bent on maintaining the rightful balance of power in the real estate business — ie, that the listing agent is at the top of the pyramid, ... More About: Report , Tour , Repo , Broker
The Empire Strikes Back
2007-05-18 06:26:00 It was inevitable. First this, and now word from the Seattle Post Intelligencer is that the NWMLS is fining Redfin $50,000 because its “Sweet Digs” property review blog apparently breaks “rule 190″ — you know, the one that says you can’t “advertise” another agent’s listing without their express permission. It was only a matter of ... More About: Back , Empire , Strike , The Empire , Empire Strikes Back
Are Newspapers Dead?
2007-05-17 18:53:00 I wanted to have a compelling title for a little experiment I recently did with my listing at 206 Palmita Place in Downtown Mountain View. It’s a newer construction home and I thought the location and price would appeal to couples or small families. Based on that demographic, I assumed more people would be searching ... More About: Newspapers , Dead , Newspaper , Papers
How To Find A Good Stager
2007-05-16 19:30:00 You?ve made the wise decision with your Realtor to stage your property before sale, but now what? How do you find that special person who?s going to make your property jump off the market? Besides reading blogs and finding knowledgeable stagers that way , there are many sources to find and compare qualified stagers. If ... More About: Find , Good , Stage , Ager
Mortgage Mania - Part 4 in a continuing series
2007-05-08 18:51:00 Hi again, I received another update on changing guidance in mortgage lending from Rachel Van Emon at Opes Advisors. While she consistently seems to be the bearer of bad news lately, she is actually a delightful person! So . . . don’t shoot the messenger. A key point she brings out in her latest article is mortgage ... More About: Series , Mortgage , Part , Gage , Mania
Real Estate & Technology
2007-04-27 19:48:00 Thank you Kevin, for the wonderful introduction! I too am thrilled to be a part of your growing 3Oceans community here online. Yes, it’s true - I am fascinated by technology. Always have been. To the point that my friends call me the ”gadget guy.” Perhaps it’s just in my nature as someone who has always had the deep ... More About: Technology , Estate , Real Estate , State , Real
Introducing a New Contributor?Bart Marchioni
2007-04-27 18:29:00 3 Oceans is thrilled to announce that Bart Marc h ioni, a Keller Williams agent and good friend, is coming on board. Bart has the distinction of not only being a world-class Realtor with great insights, but also — gasp! — even more plugged in and wired than I am. He’s figured out how to glean every ... More About: Archi , Intro
World?s First Virtual Open House
2007-04-27 03:02:00 From 5pm to 7pm PST today, April 26th, 2007, I’ll be doing a twilight open house showing of 49 Missouri. Concurrently, I’ll be doing what may be the world’s first virtual open house. Come by here to take a look, ask questions, find out more about the property, or just to say hi. Potrero Hill, San FranciscoShare ... More About: House , World , Open , Virtual , First
3Oceans Rises From the Depths
2007-04-26 20:27:00 After a too-long blogging hiatus — brought on by a confluence of heavy work and personal commitments — I’m back… One of the commitments keeping me busy was my “most Internet-marketed property…ever” listing. Let’s just say I underestimated how much time it would take to put property details up on some 80 sites…even though many ... More About: Oceans , Rise , The D , Depth
What can a stager do for me? Part 4 of a 4-part series
2007-04-19 21:04:00 Although this is the last installment of a 4-part series on what home stagers can do, don’t be fooled ? there is an infinite number of things we property presentation consultants can do to help you market your property! However, I had to end it somewhere, and I?ve decided to talk about the least ... More About: Series , What , Hat , Part , Stage
Tackling the Single-Property Website Conundrum
2007-04-12 03:43:00 For my upcoming “most Internet-advertised” listing, I — naturally — want a website for the property. There are lots of opinions out there about the efficacy of single-property websites (see, for instance, what Mary McKnight, Greg Swann, and Joel Burslem have said). Here’s my take: they provide Great property marketing — If done well, a ... More About: Website , Property , Site , Webs , Sing
Mortgage Mania - Part 3
2007-04-11 19:14:00 Last week I mentioned an article written by friend and colleague, Rachel Van Emon at OPES Advisors on the ripple effects of the sub-prime lending crisis and impending changes in lending guidelines. Things move quickly in this market and industry, so I wanted to draw your attention to a recent article in the San Jose Mercury ... More About: Mortgage , Mani , Part , Part 3 , Gage
A Fair Oaks Castle
2007-04-11 08:45:00 Fair Oaks is one of my favorite Menlo Park neighborhoods, partly because of the unpredictable mix of properties. There is a sprinkling — but only a sprinkling, mind you — of McMansions, but the rest are a melange of cottages, Victorians, Craftsmen, bungalows, and small Ranches. Today’s tour offered a surprise in the form of ... More About: Castle , Cast , Fair
Killer Buy vs. Rent Calculator
More articles from this author:2007-04-11 04:00:00 I long ago put together a buy vs. rent calculator and it served as the basis for my buy vs. rent series. The New York times has just come out with a pretty good buy vs. rent calculator of their own (might soon disappear behind a paid firewall.) Its conclusions are basically the same as mine: Assuming ... More About: Calculator , Killer , Calc , Rent , Kill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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