East Bay Realty Pro Blog

While touring houses for clients, I passed this one and took a quick shot with my cell phone. Located in Berkeley and called the “Tsui House,” it is known for its unusual architecture. For more photos and a full description of this fascinating property, go to http://www.tdrinc.com/tsuihs.html

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A massive lobbying effort by the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) recently helped to remove an onerous provision from Assembly Bill 2678, (Núñez-Laird), Time-of-Sale Energy Audits. This effort was capped by “Legislative Day,” June 4th in Sacramento, where well over 1000 California Realtors®, including myself, met at the state capitol. Protesting this bill was high [...]

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Just saw Crude Impact, an amazing documentary about the relationship between human beings, oil consumption and the effect on our planet. It was released in 2006, but, somehow, I never heard about it until my wife told me I must see it. She was right.
The film has won numerous awards and is on the level [...]

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As a state director of the California Association of Realtors, I spent most of last week attending meetings in Sacramento. As usual, the thousand-plus of us present heard about new laws, legal cases, changes in forms, Multiple Listing Service (MLS) updates and a forecast for California real estate.
Different and shocking, however, was the reported prevalence [...]

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Clients called me today, very excited about a property they had found online and wanting to know why I had not told them about it. I explained that I had previewed the house for them, and found it had too many “issues.” From our initial interview, and subsequent conversations, I knew they would have found [...]

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If you owned a million-dollar-plus home that had been on the market since January, over four months, and you had not received an offer closer than $50,000 of your list price, what would you do? Assuming you really needed to sell it, how about lowering the price? Wouldn’t that seem logical?
As I have seen so [...]

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