Maureen Kennedy, Piedmont CA Broker

This quarter, I've closed all my transactions (it's not uncommon for deals to fall through these days!),  assembled market info for clients trying to decide how best to meet their real estate goals (should we sell now or later?  Buy first and sell second?), wrote ''green real estate'' stories and...

I missed the great article in Bay Nature magazine recently about area plant sales.  They have a great web resource with links to the non-profit organizers, however, and most organize several sales per year.  So click through and see who's got a sale this weekend!  

Click here for the cool graphic I've been including in the last few updates of home price trends in 20 metro areas, based on the Case-Shiller Index.  Those curves are pretty consistently trending up--roughly what I'm seeing on the ground in this market.  And these figures are through the end of A...

We repainted our trim in Piedmont not long ago (now have a Warm Brick thing going rather than Forest Service Green).  The brown paint for some trim and the gate has a touch of red in there, which feels like Mexican mole sauce if you stare at it long enough.  Yum!! If a paint job is in your future...

That's the deadline for submitting an application for a downward adjustment in your property assessment (resulting in a reduction in property taxes).  Two great resources are: --the county assessor's site, which includes all the forms and deadlines, and --this video from the state Board of Eq...

2Q09 Market Update After several years of steady prices (sales prices had been quite flat at around $600/sf since our market peak in November of 2005), and a winter and spring of very few sales and prices all over the place, this spring market makes the market direction clear:  Prices are down as...