Category: Buying Tips

Get All Your Docs in a Row: What You Need to Apply for a Home Loan

  Avoid the nerve-racking stress of hunting down your financial documents after you’ve seen the house of your dreams and…

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Need for Speed: How to Get Your Offer Accepted in the Ultra-Competitive Bay Area Real Estate Market

  7 Hot Tips for First-Time Home Buyers     These days, if you want to buy a home for…

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Don’t Despair, Bay Area Homebuyers! See These Hidden Pockets of Affordability

  For first-time home buyers and buyers who want to trade in starter homes for something bigger, entering the red…

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How to Write a Winning Love Letter to Home Sellers

    Update: Since we first posted here about how to write a winning love letter to home sellers –…

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12 Ways to Edge Out the Competition in East Bay Real Estate

  If you are a hopeful homebuyer, recent headlines about East Bay real estate are intense. We’re talking about the…

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Head for the Flats: East Bay Home Buyers Want To Walk

Remember when homes in the Berkeley and Oakland hills commanded premium prices and multiple offers because of their quiet suburban…

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6 Tips for Managing Moving Day Stress

What?? Packing and moving isn’t your favorite thing in the world to do? Well, don’t worry about being buried under…

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Load These 11 Killer Real Estate Apps Now

Buying? Selling? Stalking a house that’s not on the market yet? There’s a real estate  app for that! We asked…

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House Hunting With Kids? 14 Ways To Cap The Day With East Bay Family Fun

We have kids. We get it. Touring open houses isn’t magical fun for little ones. They get bored. They get…

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