Posts in Real Estate 101
Why do so many homes trade off-market in Marin County?

An off-market home for sale, also known as a pocket listing, is a home available for sale privately that never goes on the public multiple listing service (MLS). Therefor, you’ll never find the property on Zillow, Trulia or any other real estate website. In Marin County, 1-in-5 homes are trading off-market without ever going public. That’s 20% of the market you could be missing if you’re not working with a realtor who’s well connected in the area.

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How to Buy and Sell Homes in the Age of Coronavirus

The Marin market continues to pick up speed with new listings hitting the market and many receiving multiple offers or strong preemptive offers within a week of exposure. We just learned that a hot new listing in Mill Valley listed at $1.7M received 13 offers this week after only 6 days on the market and is selling for more than $250k over asking with 60% of the buyer pool coming from San Francisco. So, what does this mean for home buyers and sellers?

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Renovated Kitchens Equal Healthier Homeowners

If your New Year’s resolution is to live a healthier lifestyle, remodeling your kitchen could be one step toward achieving that goal. That’s one key takeaway from Houzz’s 2017 Kitchen Trends Study, which surveyed homeowners who were in some stage of renovating their kitchens last year or this year. One-third of respondents reported that they were leading healthier lifestyles after remodeling their kitchens, while the other 67 percent said they were equally as healthy as before.

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