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2011 

I'm now the listing agent for a brand new home right outside the Santa Cruz Boardwalk on Beach Hill. I've got to say..this place is amazing. Nestled right between the beach and downtown, there's nowhere you could want to go without just taking a nice stroll or bike ride. This house is perfect for...
03/30/2011
Today is a spring day in Santa Cruz, CA, very much looked forward to by all of it's residents. The sun is shining, the beach is glistening, and it's back to those moments where I'd rather be surfing. This past month has been a doozy for Santa Cruz residents. With the tsunami warnings from the 8.9...
03/28/2011
Note: Information presented in this post came from Jondi Gumz's piece "Median Home Price $450,000 in February" in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Check out santacruzsentinel.com for this and other helpful articles. In Santa Cruz County during February, the median sales price for a single family residenc...
03/24/2011
Trying to sell a home in need of repairs is difficult because neither the buyer nor the seller want to pay for them; the seller is leaving the home and buyers don't want to invest in repairs before escrow closes. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) now provides a solution w...
03/24/2011
The local business in Santa Cruz, CA may be thriving better then in many other parts of the state. This may be due, in part, to the local Santa Cruz area Chamber of Commerce. Not to be confused with the U.S. Chamber, this group is concerned with everything local-from the winegrowers in the mounta...
03/23/2011
The Santa Cruz Mountain Winegrowers Association puts on many great events like Passport Day, however next Saturday, March 26th they will be hosting Pinot Paradise. For only $25, you can go to all of your favorite wneries around Santa Cruz county and samply their pinot noirs. For big wine buffs, t...
03/17/2011
The Sacred Craft exposition will feature the celebration of the surfboard-just in time for the water to start warming up, this Saturday and Sunday the 19th and 20th. Seeing as how Santa Cruz, CA is surf city, why would it be anywhere else? At this expo you can take a look at beautiful longboards ...
03/17/2011
Open house this Saturday, March 12th, from 1-4 for luxury home in the Rio Del Mar/Seascape area. This amazing home is going for 2.5 million, a low price for just how incredible it is. The home features four huge bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms, with a great deck and patio giving you both ba...
03/09/2011
Since it began over seven years ago, First Fridays in Santa Cruz have had over eighty events for the public. First Fridays occur on the first friday of a given month, as the name suggests, and is a free event encompassing the whole city for the town to participate in. During this event, one can g...
03/04/2011
The Santa Cruz Sentinel had a very interesting article about the median January sales price of a home yesterday. Althought the sales price of homes everywhere in California have been dropping, it seems as though there is a common trend in which the median price dropes especially low during the wi...
03/02/2011
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