Below are the housing stats for the city of Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Livermore. If you have any questions or would like any detailed information, please let me know.

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Below are the housing stats for the city of Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Livermore. If you have any questions or would like any detailed information, please let me know.

As the graph shows, activity has continually increased in the Trivalley for real estate sales in 2008.  A combination of attractive pricing and increased rent has brought back many of the buyers.  The entry level market has certainly heated up and with time this will eventually lead to the mid range and higher priced homes to follow.  Whether we are–at the bottom, several months away from it or just passing it–buyer confidence in the market is back and homes are selling.  If you have any specific questions about your Trivalley neighborhood or the neighborhood you would like to move to, feel free to comment or contact me.  

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Buying or selling a home is a very large decision and can be filled with difficulties and complexities.  One common form of interference that I often experience is when home buyers and home sellers over rely on their friends or family members for advice on what they should do.

While I am a proponent of getting feedback from those you trust when you are making a large decision, you must keep in mind that the advice you are receiving is solely based on that person’s personal experience with the matter and not a well rounded responce (unless the person has gone through the same situation several times).  Continue Reading

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The newest player in the home search arena is one of the most popular online shopping sites in my household.  I guess it is also fitting that the company (named Overstock.com) would beging advertising the homes in a market like this.  It just would not have the same ring to it if they began doing this three years ago when there was barely any inventory around.  While the idea of homes advertised on a website made popular by selling cheap over stocked items and clearanced prices sounds appealing, the reality is that it is not.

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Below are the housing stats for the city of Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Livermore. If you have any questions or would like any detailed information, please let me know.

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Below are the housing stats for the city of Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Livermore. If you have any questions or would like any detailed information, please let me know.

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Getting your home ready for the market can involve many tedious steps from putting away your clutter to picking out new paint colors to give the home a fresh look and feel.  Taking things one step further, sellers today may also want to consider using some Feng Shui decorating tips to make sure the home’s harmony is maximized and the home is attractive to even more buyers.  A Chinese discipline practiced for 4,000 years, Feng Shui is based on the belief that a vital life energy, ch’i, flows everywhere-in nature, buildings, and people. Design and proper placement of dwellings and furnishings direct this vital energy to flow harmoniously in your surroundings and in you. The results? Continue Reading

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Below are the housing stats for the city of Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon and Livermore. If you have any questions or would like any detailed information, please let me know.

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How’s business?  This seems to be a very common question to answer these days.  My business has been surprising!  In the past three weeks, I have had the chance to help two separate clients submit an offer on two homes in the Trivalley.  One was a two bedroom townhome in Pleasanton and the other a newer townhome in Dublin in the Cottages.  What happened with these offers may surprise you.The two bedroom Pleasanton townhome was in good condition with not much work to be done.  It was priced competitive for the market and could fit most first time home-buyers budgets’.  My client was looking to purchase the townhome as an investment property and with a 20% downpayment the rents would nearly cover the carrying costs.  So we visited the home on the first day it hit the market (Monday) and got together Tuesday morning to submit the offer.  After we wrote the offer (very close to asking price), I called the agent to let him know to expect an offer from my client on the Pleasanton townhome.  He informed me that there were a total of five offers on the property and according to the agent, the home will sell for over asking price.  (But wait, I thought it was a buyer’s market!?) Continue Reading

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I recently helped a home buyer purchase a beautiful Livermore home for sale. The home for sale was in a mature neighborhood and was a real gem. The sellers of the home seemed to have taken great care of the property over the past ten years that they had lived there. Today, the home was updated beautifully and in pristine condition.

Upon getting our offer accepted, we performed our typical home inspections to make sure that everything with the home was sound and nothing major was wrong. Except for some small odd and end things that the seller agreed to fix, we found this Livermore home for sale to be in great shape. There was however one item which turned out to be a big deal and cost upwards of $5,000 to repair (keep reading and I can tell you how you can prevent from having it happen to you). Continue Reading

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