The bedrock of the residential real estate industry is the American Dream of owning your own home. But the current market has seen a sharp rise in another facet of the industry: the ‘strictly business’ opportunity created by the rise in Marin and San Francisco foreclosure listings. Everyone from
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01/31/2012
Home sellers swear by them and real estate agents have a love-hate relationship with them. Open houses are those typically weekend soirees during which a seller leaves his home in the hands of his real estate agent who holds it wide open for the world to traipse through. Although it’s a familia
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01/11/2012
Enough already! Economy this! Housing market that!. It seems like we have been bombarded with mostly bad news forever. Every month Marin County would-be home sellers and prospective buyers hope for signs that the economy has turned around, and January 2012 was no exception. But despite the relati
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01/10/2012
Whenever a Marin homeowner decides to sell a home, it is tempting to consider selling without the assistance of an Marin real estate broker. After all, who knows a home better than its occupant does? And there’s the broker’s commission – who wouldn’t want to save 6%-7% of the sales price? These a
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01/09/2012