The scariest part of owning a home usually isn’t the mortgage — it’s the home maintenance. Knowing what needs attention, when it needs it, and what happens if you miss something. Roofs, foundations, paint, pests, drainage. The list never ends, and most people can’t keep it all straight. How could they? A family friend sent…

At the close of every year, I find myself thinking about the people who make this work possible — and about why we built this kind of real estate brokerage in the first place. Building Primavera Realty from the ground up was not easy. It keeps growing for one reason: the people around us. Clients,…

Some of the trickiest deals don’t fall apart because of the price — they get complicated because of the financing. A city-backed loan is a perfect example: a program that helps a buyer get in the door, but one that almost always means a longer escrow and more hoops to jump through. One of our…

Every so often a story comes along that’s funny, a little sad, and a perfect lesson in why due diligence isn’t optional. This is one of them. A seller called me, thrilled with a recent purchase. She had bought a piece of “land” in San Francisco at auction — paying $400 for the parcel, plus…

One of the trickiest transactions in real estate is the simultaneous close — when the money from selling one home has to fund the purchase of another, and both deals have to land in sync. Our buyers were moving cross-country from New York to San Francisco. They’d already accepted an offer on their New York…