Marin County Real Estate

Click here for: Sunday Marin County Online Open Houses by the Marin Independent Journal
The Marin Independent Journal Sunday Online Open House web site is the definitive Marin Online Open House Web Site.

Click the link below for the Marin Association of Realtor’s new Sunday Online Open House’s web site:
Marin Online Open Houses
Great looking  web site, but [...]

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Home Prices, Sales on the Rise in Marin / Marin IJ Article
Housing Starts Hit Highest Level Since November 2008

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Coldwell Banker is the Bay Area’s Number One Real Estate Company. As the largest Bay Area residential brokerage firm Coldwell Banker can provide you with the best real estate services available. Coldwell Banker’s local, national, and global reach is extraordinary. When it comes to selling your home you can always count on an [...]

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PASS THE ASPIRIN … By Ian Charles
What’s clear to see in today’s Marin real estate market is the overhang of reality. Perhaps the term “hangover” is more appropriate, given the wreckage left from yesterday’s easy money theme party. Sure, while the economy was humming and interest-only adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) were [...]

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Click here for:     Sunday Marin County Online Open Houses

Here’s another version for Marin County Sunday Open Houses by the Marin Association of Realtors
Marin Online Open Houses

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San Francisco Resident Win’s “Marin Dream House”

San Francisco Resident Win’s “Marin Dream House”
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For a third year Community Action Marin, a San Rafael-based nonprofit, is offering a raffle to help fund its programs for the poor by offering raffle [...]

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February 19, 2010 Marin Independent Journal
Sales Up in Marin County as Median Price Slips
Affordable Housing In Marin “Out of Reach”
Marin County is State’s Healthiest
San Francisco Resident Win’s “Marin Dream House”

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Marin Real Estate Report by Fred Anlyan:
Bay Area December Home Sales Strongest in Three Years

Front page article in the 1.22.10 Marin IJ exclaims “Home sales, median price up“. At the same time stocks in the Dow take a 200 point one-day dive on fears about proposed new bank regulations as well as concern about Fed Chairman Bernanke’s [...]

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It looks like Sean Penn and Robin Wright (she dropped the Penn name) are really going to divorce this time, with the recent sale of the Penns’ Marin County home.The deed was just recorded on Jan. 20 , and the sale price was not revealed. The Penn’s originally listed their home for sale in August 2008 for $15 [...]

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According to the National Association of Realtors, only 1 percent of Realtors are using video to market their listings, yet 73 percent of all sellers would list with an agent who uses video to market their property. Translation? Using video to market your listings give you a 99 percent edge over the competition.
Here’s why: after [...]

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Emerging from the traditionally quiet period of the year (regarding real estate, that is), we see that is has not been all that quiet. Numbers of accepted offers for both Single Family Residences (SFR) and Condominiums were double or more than in the same period in the last two years. Months Supply [...]

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     The $625,000 ongoing litigation regarding the Del Mar undergrounding underscores the highly divisive, expensive and unfair nature of such projects forced upon local residents by town management and well-heeled (often brand new) residents.  The assessments for individual property owners for the numerous Tiburon and Belvedere undergrounding projects have ranged from $20,000 to $35,000 [...]

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Today the Marin Independent Journal came out with the headlines: Top Story: Drop in Home Prices Bucks Regional Trend. And once more we’re back to interpreting misleading headlines:
John Rusting, a real estate instructor at College of Marin and certified appraiser in the East Bay, said it’s hard to put much stock in such statistics given [...]

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What does today’s 2009/2010 buyer of real estate look like? Here are some statistics from the National Association of Realtors that you might find very insightful, especially if your thinking of selling your home in today’s real estate market.

NAR has recently released the 2009 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.  The report [...]

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What’s Been Happening in Marin Real Estate? You can’t tell a player without a program, so here’s the program. Marin Real Estate legends Jeff Sterley and Barry Crotty have both returned to Frank Howard Allen Realtors. Jeff will be managing the Novato office, and Barry is taking over the Tiburon office.  Brent Thompson has [...]

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Agassi  You Tube Home To Be Demolished?Once the Roundhill Estate, then Andre Agassi’s and Steffi Graf’s home later purchased by Stuart Peterson of YouTube fame for 20 million in 2006, now has a Gilmartin Drive adddress and plans to demolish the 12,400 square foot mansion, and put up a 15, 250 square foot mansion.Agassi Mansion Faces Demolition in Tiburon

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Bloomberg News “Wealthy Investors PlanTo Buy More Real Estate”
Mercury News: President of Alain Pinel Realtors Resigns

Agassi Estate To Be Demolished & Enlarged
One of Tiburon’s most famous estate homes is going from Big to Bigger!  YouTube investor Stuart Peterson and his wife, Gina, who bought the Agassi estate on Gilmartin Drive in 2006, plan to tear [...]

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Marin Independent Journal Article November 19, 2009
Bloomberg News Bay Area Sales Are On The Rise
Yesterday I attended a large Marin Real Estate Networking Group at the Acqua Hotel in Mill Valley. Curiously, October of 2009 was the busiest month of the year for home that have gone under contract/pending in Octob er.  And, [...]

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Hot New Listing in Sausalito!
Built in 1907 this Folk Victorian enjoys views of San Francisco, the Bay, and surrounding hills.  Having just undergone a major rebuild/remodel in 2007.  Situated on a sunny lot in “Old Town” Sausalito with shops, restaurants, and entertainment just steps from your front door!  Four bedrooms, and three bathrooms, a [...]

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Listing agents are starting to set offer dates again for attractively-priced homes, especially REO’s (bank-owned real estate). Many of these are attracting multiple offers which often go over asking price but not necessarily by a large margin. One listing agent in Novato recently had multiple offers on a property, had the deal fall through twice. The property had [...]

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This incredible 2 story, 3 bedroom, 3 bath Point Tiburon residence is not on MLS but available for sale at $1,995,000.  For more information about this wonderful property contact Mark Lomas at 415-385-7404 direct/cell or 415-789-7777 wk.v.m.

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Ann Rodgers, executive director of the Marin Community Food Bank sits among bags ready to be distributed at the Food Banks warehouse.  The Marin Community Food Bank agency gives out 2 million pounds of goods each year and will provide meals to more than 3,500 families during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah.

Marin Community Food Bank
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