Just read in the Daily Cal that Mabel Bolton left $150,000 to neighborhood's Thousand Oaks Elementary School. There once were several liquor stores on Solano Avenue when we first moved to the Thousand Oaks Neighborhood. Bolton's liquors was one of them. The article talks Continue Reading
We've always felt that our buyers first "buy" neighborhoods, then purchase the nicest home they can buy there.What better way to show which homes are for sale in the Berkeley Hills, Albany, Thousand Oaks, Rockridge than by mapping them?Carol told Mimi, a long-lost cousin Continue Reading
North Berkeley Library Image from Jana Bouc's Flikr Page and used with permission I happened across Jana's Journal and Sketch Blog this morning.... and clicked on it to see a charming sketch Jana Bouc did of the North Berkeley Library. It's a lovely sketch, and captures Continue Reading
The above map is a link from the San Francisco Chronicle article "Zillow maps ups and downs of housing prices"Zillow gives "zestimates" and all real estate is local. That's one of the reasons I'm no fan of Zillow or their zestimates. Two homes side by side can have vastly Continue Reading
I saw a post on Trulia Voices Berkeley - "I'm interested in buying a house in the Berkeley Hills. But landslides worry me... if a house has cracks in it's walls, there's a meaning to it..."Here's how I answered...Gravity... not just a good idea.. It's the Law!Cracks are a Continue Reading
The Spring Berkeley/Oakland Rockridge Market looks very strong.We presented an offer for a Thousand Oaks home on Thursday, and the home ended up receiving 18 offers. This is a house which was described as “embarrassingly underpriced” by a colleague, that’s why it generated Continue Reading
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