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Real Estate Agent - Healdsburg Sotheby's International Realty
Sonoma County real estate agent. Healdsburg Sotheby's associate with interests in architecture, green building, classic fixers, and country property. Alexander Valley, Dry Creek Valley, Russian River Valley Vineyard specialist with wine country estates as a particular specialty. Dave can also help find the perfect weekend getaway or river front cottage.

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2010 

Round Porches I was looking for a multi-unit building for sale on Morgan Street in Santa Rosa when I came across a beautiful round porch. I'm a lover of architectural details in general and round porches in particular. Round porches represent a powerful expression of the carpenter's art. With the...
01/19/2010
Growing asparagus is not for the impatient. You have to dig a deep trench in a sunny, well-prepared location. After partially filling the bottom with rich, fertile soil you place high quality roots spaced appropriately and covered with more loam. You don't actually get to harvest until the third ...
01/19/2010
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Real Estate vs. "Fluff" Content The battle is never over between those who want only real estate content on ActiveRain and those who want to write about recipes, gardens, family, and life. That's the way it should be. Blogging is the ultimate solo activity and there are going to be hundreds of s...
01/18/2010
Santa Rosa dominates the home sales in Sonoma County. It also leads in sales of foreclosed homes. In order to show nearly 1,000 home sales the chart features a lot of detail. The bars are grouped by month from left to right. Within each group (month) the sales are broken down by Days on Market or...
01/16/2010
Sonoma County bank owned homes in 2010 differ in one key respect from the beginning of 2009. Today, everyone in the market is aware of the value priced homes in the REO market. It seems hard to believe, but just a year ago bank owned properties in Sonoma and elsewhere would linger on the market a...
01/16/2010
Pinot lovers and other fans of the Russian River Valley will be out in force this weekend for the Winter Wineland. There's something special about a weekend in which the majority of people on the road are fellow wine enthusiasts and fans. A lot of days are for "normal" tourists who might sip an o...
01/15/2010
I'm representing buyers in a complicated transaction that has been up, down, sideways, and maybe inside out. Through it all I've had the strong support and service provide by William Hunt Conrad, a Healdsburg representative for Prospect Mortgage. I don't want to play the violin too loudly, but Hu...
01/14/2010
My heart beats a little faster when the property is spectacular. I'm a sucker for water features, and this upcoming listing boasts a powerful water amenity. Our office will be listing this beautiful, waterfall-filled half mile stretch of a wild steelhead stream. There's over 3,200 feet of frontag...
01/14/2010
One of my fellow agents has a listing for an 1890's Queen Anne Victorian on Matheson St. in Healdsburg. It's a great old house with an interesting history and a lot of potential. What makes it an interesting property is the grandfathered zoning that keeps the 5 units on the back of the very big l...
01/13/2010
The seasonal sales cycle in residential real estate is well known in the industry, but not to the general public. The downturn in the market after the real estate bubble peaked several years ago has distored the normal ebb and flow of properties onto the market, but not eliminated it. The chart s...
01/13/2010
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Real estate and green building information for Sonoma County California with an emphasis on Healdsburg, Sebastopol, Forestville, Guerneville, Graton, and the Russian River Valley, Dry Creek Valley. and Alexander Valley.I write a lot about REO property, fixers, luxury estate homes, and vineyard property. I love to analyze sales trends.