What’s Just Over The Hill?

What’s Just Over The Hill?

Who Knows What 2017 Will Bring? Napa and surrounding areas will most likely continue on their trend lines: prices increasing gradually, inventory limited, perfect properties selling fast and challenging properties taking longer, a seller’s market for the most part,...
All The World’s A Stage

All The World’s A Stage

Even drive-by curb appeal is part of “staging.” If you’re thinking about selling, set the scene long before your first Open House. Look at your home as part of a streetscape, and consider what it “says” in marketing terms. Does it look tired and taken for granted, or...
What’s Normal About Median?

What’s Normal About Median?

And who’s flocking to these median-priced homes in Napa? Nothing about the median home price is normal in Napa. Or local. The median single-family home is now more than $575,000. What “normal,” average, “medium” single family can afford that? If a normal, average...
Smacked by Taxes

Smacked by Taxes

You do. Development might be a dirty word, but it’s what pays for society. In a way, we’re all developers, anyone who improves property. Property tax is based on value property owners create. Municipalities hit developers, whether individuals or corporations, with...
The Way We Are

The Way We Are

People buy houses while laughing, talking, listening to music, cruising in their car, on the treadmill, watching movies in bed, waiting for their Starbucks. They shop before they engage a real estate agent, to learn about the market, prices, and availability. They...