Real Estate Agents Developing Specialties
Just as with flavors and caffeine levels of soda pop, the choices to be made among real estate agents has expanded over the years — despite, or maybe because of, the down economy. As Marilyn Kennedy...
View ArticleHow Do You Market One of the Greenest Homes in the World?
“You’ve only got one house renovation like this in your lifetime,” says owner David Gottfried of the 1915 Craftsman bungalow in Oakland that he and his wife Sara turned into an environmentally...
View ArticleUnexpected Homebuyer Expense: New Cookware for Induction Stove
I thought I knew a thing or two about cooking, but when a friend told me that she’d recently bought a house with an “induction” stove, I had to ask, “What’s that?” Turns out it’s touted as the hot new...
View ArticleMaybe Money DOES Grow on Trees
Neighborhood trees have been getting a lot of good press lately. First there was writer Tim De Chant, who created an Internet sensation last summer after posting his “Income inequality, as seen from...
View ArticleWill This Be Your Year for Home Improvements?
No points for originality will be awarded to anyone currently thinking, “Gee, we can’t afford to move, so let’s remodel or add on to this place.” The amount of spending on such projects is set to...
View ArticleFriday Real Estate Fun: Ideal House Features
One of the fun parts of shopping for a home is dreaming about all the great features you’d like to find there — and then maybe being surprised by a few that you didn’t expect or know existed. With that...
View ArticleMiami Real Estate Industry Willfully Blind to Sea Level Rise
It takes a writer from a British newspaper to point up the absurdity of human behavior in Miami, where despite obviously rising sea levels, “The local population is steadily increasing; land prices...
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