There is always money to be made on foreclosures, no matter the condition of the market. While many of the homes offered in this manner through Real Estate Disposition Corporation (REDC) are not in great condition, are sold As-Is, and may not be available for inspection, if you know your area, a bargain can be… Read More
With the holidays over, free workshops and seminars for the real estate neophyte are back in full swing. Especially in this time of uncertainty on the market, seems you’d want to be as smart as possible about selling or buying… and what’s smarter than taking advantage of free expert advice? Note this week the seminars… Read More
The biggest bang for your buck: 37815 Birch St., Newark – 3/2 – 3329 sf ($297) $1,199,000 Now this has got to be the deal of the century…or at least the last couple of stressful years in the RE market. It’s in a nice quiet neighborhood on almost 1 acre of land. It was a… Read More
While it may be slow out there in real estate land, there are still some happenings worth shaking our heads at, cracking a joke about, or just plain marveling at what the Bay Area has to offer its residents. Answers from last Friday’s quiz: (1) The average price of a SFR in Noe Valley in… Read More
We missed last week’s little quiz, due to the storm, but we’re back again this week, testing your knowledge of the wacky, ever-changing Bay Area real estate market. There are some strange things going on round these parts, with homes being re-listed for $200,000 more than the month before, one bedroom shacks selling for $600,000,… Read More
Here are some numbers that make me wonder why there is new construction going on, as we speak. What the heck is going on? This is a list of the number of houses For Sale and [Sold in the last 3 months] for the East Bay Tri-Cities area: Fremont: 680 [174] Hayward: 817 [151] Milpitas:… Read More
Here are most of the open house listings. I did leave out townhouses and condos and some that didn’t have photos. FREMONT: 43127 Charleston Way – 3/2 – 1126 SF $639,500 Sat./Sun. 1-5 OMG they put a picture of ‘the baby’ in with the photos of the house! Does the baby come with the house?… Read More
Here are two of today’s ‘most popular’ houses on Redfin in the East Bay. They have both been on Redfin for over a month and because this is really a super slow time of the year to be selling, I would try my best to bargain down if I were going to buy. 2465 Kilkare… Read More
EB Tri-Cities Open Houses Dec. 22-23 Now here are some folks that are truly serious about selling their homes! Enough so that they are willing to have strangers walking through their house the weekend before Christmas. Wow! FREMONT: 37625 Central Cove Ct. – 4/2.5 – 2014 sf $799,950 Sat 11-1:30 33209 Lake Neida St. –… Read More
Back in the day when I lived in Redfin’s birthplace, I saw a lot of residences that advertised child care. When some of my co-workers began talking about opening their own in-home day care centers I wondered how extensive (and profitable) the phenomenon was. But since I don’t have kids I didn’t wonder for long and moved on to… Read More