Proven Results To Make Your Santa Barbara Home Search Enjoyable and Successful!

When it comes to real estate in the last 5-7 years, both buyers and sellers are spending hours online searching out information about towns, areas, neighborhoods, schools and eventually individual homes for sale in their particular areas of interest.  If you as a buyer are not on top of your search via the Internet and with the tools that your agent can provide to you with the Internet, then it is almost certain that you are not getting the best most informed information. Fact - Most homes in our area from... Continue Reading >

Are The Holidays a Good Time to Buy and Sell Real Estate in Santa Barbara?

Thanksgiving is behind us and the Christmas season is amongst us..."The Holidays."  So what happens to real estate during this stretch of time here in Santa Barbara? As with many things in real estate, it is not always the same...but overall the market does change right around mid November.  Every year around this time the real estate market in general simply slows down a good amount.  Sellers are less willing to put their home on the market for the obvious reason that many buyers are distracted with The Holidays.  I... Continue Reading >

Google and Real Estate Search Do Not Quite Get It!!

Google is an amazing tool for so much of seemingly everything on the Internet.  Not many will doubt this in my opinion and therefore for me there is no need here to elaborate too much.  But what about real estate search? Google obviously would like (love) to win the real estate search game.  As far as I can see so far, to their dismay they are far from this goal.  With all the technology out there and a few prominent aggregate sites such as Trulia and Zillow, Google is stepping up... Continue Reading >