Marin County Real Estate

Marin’s home sales increased on the strength of condominium sales last month while prices continued to drop, mimicking Bay Area trends.   The median price of a single family home in Marin last was $825,000, down from $860,000 last year.  159 single family homes were sold, about the same as the 158 homes sold in September [...]

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Sunday evening, around around 9pm, smoke and a red glow over Angel Island could be seen from the Tiburon Peninsula. By 11:30 pm the media reported that an estimated 75 to 100 acres on the east side of Angel Island was burning.  This morning the media reported that about 200 firefighters were battling a 250 [...]

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“Not only have individual financial institutions become less vulnerable to shocks from underlying risk factors, but also the financial system as a whole has become more resilient.” Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve Chairsman, 2004

“A critical pillar to market competition and free markets did break down. 
I still do not know why it happened?”     Alan Greenspan, the [...]

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 How did we find ourselves in such an economic mess?  How could the powers that be not have the foresight to see what was right around the corner?  We’ve been led to believe that the sub prime mortgage melt down was the cause, when the truth of the matter is - it’s the derivatives, created by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall [...]

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      Is the Marin Association of Realtors in a state of crisis?   Many members think so. What do you think?
      About 10 years ago the Marin County Association of Realtors maintained the Multiple Listing Service (MLS/property information) database for Realtors in Marin County.  This was prior to the internet becoming such an intricate part of our lives, and businesses.  At that time the [...]

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