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Not long ago I worked with sellers in San Rafael who were ready to go. The house was in good shape, the timing was right, and then the city came through for its resale inspection. San Rafael inspects every home before it changes hands, and pulls its permit history while it’s at it. The inspector…

A house is not only a house. What happens to a lifetime of tools, equipment and belongings when an estate property sells – and to the people still living in it.

If you want to know where the Bay Area housing market is headed, skip the headlines and watch the grocery stores. In the past 30 days, plans landed on planners’ desks to turn two Safeway sites into housing — 710 new homes between them. As someone who reads planning filings the way other people read…

Thirteen years in real estate has taught me plenty about houses — foundations, staging, the way morning light moves through a kitchen. But the hardest lesson had nothing to do with property. It’s that most agents don’t work together. They work against each other. And for someone whose great joy in life is bringing people…

Fifty-five feels like a regular birthday until it isn’t. For a California homeowner who’s been holding onto a low property tax bill for decades, turning 55 quietly unlocks one of the most valuable moves in real estate — and most people have no idea the door is even there. I had a client recently who…

When people picture a buyer’s agent, they usually picture someone who unlocks doors and writes up offers. That’s the easy part. The real value shows up in the moments you never see — and often in how we read the agent on the other side of the deal. Earlier this spring, clients of mine fell…