Gregg's Santa Cruz Real Estate Blog

  The 4th Annual Monterey Bay Birding Festival is set for September 26th-28th this year. The festival will be held at the Watsonville Civic Plaza at 275 Main Street. This event has guided tours of many of the lovely birding spots in Santa Cruz County. The Santa Cruz landscape is quite varied and ...

The annual 2008 Capitola Art & Wine Festival is to be held September 6 and 7th. It runs daily from 10 AM until 6PM. This day at the beach in Capitola is a great way to spend the day. This fun filled event has of course lots of good local wines and a nice display of the many talented artist that c...

Capitola's New Brighton Beach State Park is celebrating it' 75th anniversary. This great beach south of Capitola is a great place to go. It has camping on the bluffs overlooking the beach and is a great place to go that feels far and away, but is close to town. It is a great day trip with the kid...

  Like many things in life, there is perception and there is fact. Often times they get confused in the media, which likes to tout negativity not positivity. On a recent interview by Paul Kangas of Nightly Business Report with Richard Bove, a banking analyst, I feel he gives a more balanced persp...

There was a time early in my career where whatever you bought here in Santa Cruz County needed a 20% down payment unless you were a veteran. That morphed with the high interest rates of the day to some creative terms and loan structures with names like AITD, Wraps and the like. Seller carry back ...

Santa Cruz, Ca is looking into a new technology to help them become greener. While Santa Cruz County does a good amount of recycling there is always some amount that is currently not recyclable. This new approach of technology by Adaptive Arc of Carlsbad, California uses a process to vaporize the...

This week is a reflection on the need to focus on nursing homes. Many nursing home residents are the people who lived and worked locally and made our community what it is. People from all walks of life come to nursing homes; they are not just for end of life medically challenged people, but peopl...

Santa Cruz county home owners have some government help locally. As with many rural areas in Santa Cruz County,there is no sewer, and the toilet and greywater waste are disposed of in a septic system. These systems which are basically a 1000-2000 gallon holding tanks for solids, and trenches to l...

Are you gums bad? There are a number of things you can do to improve your health. In a Japanese study of almost a thousand people between the ages of 40 and 79 they found that those who ate fermented milk products such as yogurt and kefir had significantly improved dental health. Small quantities...

Cut Bait or Fish… this is a home buyer story   Well that’s an old saying, but has some truth to it. For those who don’t know it means, it means do something or don’t talk about it. I’m thinking that is what you the buyers should be doing. You know you have been thinking “I should buy a house, th...