Marin County Real Estate

February 6th, 2009 is the entry deadline to win the $2 Million Dollar Dream Home!
For more information call: 1-800-431-5166 Or click: Marin County Dream Home

Dream House Raffle: A limited number of $150 tickets will be sold.  The Grand Prize Winner chooses either the $2 million dollar house in San Rafael or 1.6 million in cash.  [...]

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RELOCATION.COM names San Francisco Bay Area’s Best Real Estate Agent Web Sites!
Press Release
New York, PRNewswire: Relocation.com , the leading online consumer resource for moving services, today announced its listing of the best “Real Estate Agents Blogs” in San Francisco.
“Access to listings is still a crucial part of a real estate web site, but the content [...]

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(Ariel View of the Martha Property)

More than two years after a Federal Judge ruled that a 1976 judgement giving the Martha Company the right to build 43 homes or more sites on it’s 110 acre Tiburon parcel, the company has submitted a new application to the County of Marin. The Martha Company is [...]

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This chart shows the activity of Top Brokers in Marin County.
This chart reflects Market Share in $ volume. 
GMAC here is Pacific Union which was recently sold. 
If you view the Pacific Union vs. Alain Pinel post below
you’ll see that Pacific Union is in “transition” right now. 

This chart reflects market share in UNITS SOLD

This Data reflects sales from [...]

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Yesterday the Marin Independent Journal’s headline reported, “Marin Real Estate Scene Has Jolt!” In a shakeup of the local real estate scene, more than 60 agents are leaving Pacific Union (Marin’s 4th largerst real estate brokerage) for Alain Pinel.
While Avram Goldman, Pacific Union’s chief executive, declined to be interviewed … Steve Dickason, Greenbrae [...]

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At one time Coldwell Banker owned OpenHouse.com but didn’t know what to do with it, so they sold it to the Realogy Service Group. I met with representatives from the Realogy Service Group at the Inman Real Estate Technology conference in San Francisco earlier this year and discussed their web site with [...]

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It’s no secret. A huge exodus of agents from Pacific Union Real Estate have moved to incoming Alain Pinel Realtors (who currently are negotiating office spaces here in Marin).
On the San Francisco Real Estate Blog there are some amazing comments on this subject. Check out: Pacific Union “Death Watch”
Not my choice of [...]

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Novato, A Century of Gentle Seasons
“A CENTURY OF GENTLE SEASONS, A HISTORY OF NOVATO” DEBUTS
With the recent uncovering of a long lost time capsule buried under the Novato City Hall, the history of this town has never been more captivating. Zan Media is pleased to announce that “A Century of Gentle Seasons, A History of [...]

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Tough times?  This too, will pass.
For some, this economy is “the best of times” ; for others, it is “the worst of times.” Wall Street has gone from the “season of light” to the “season of darkness.” In the midst of the current economic uncertainty, there are those who look to future [...]

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  Rates on 30 year mortgages fell to a record low for the third straight week, and borrowers took advantage of the drop, sending new applications soaring.
     With the Federal Reserve on the verge of pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. housing market, mortgage rates have plunged to the lowest level since [...]

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