2010: Setting up to be particularly dynamic

2010 is just getting started, but already it's proving to be a really interesting year at the Double B.

In one short month we have helped buyers buy houses ranging from a $75,000 single-family home (a 66% discount off its initial list price) to a spectacular $1.8 million-dollar beach home in mid-county. This is a pretty serious range, but it's rapidly widening even now. We are still helping investors and first-time home-buyers into the lower ranges of the market, but at the same time we are helping buyers find properties in the highest market strata.

I am really amazed at the quality and variety of clients we have had over the last year, and I have noticed a consistent theme among buyers who seek us out: They are unusually intelligent, resourceful, and prepared. If you think I'm just buttering up our clientele, you simply haven't met them.

From oceanographers to business owners, from artists to professional investors, from first-time home-buyers to building contractors, our approach to real estate seems to attract very thoughtful, creative, and knowledgeable clients, and they seem to share the unique habit of having done their research beforehand. I really had one first-time home-buyer who read three entire books on real estate before talking to his first agent.

We also seem to get a large number of buyers with experience in the industry. We have had several Realtors or relatives of Realtors as clients, as well as contractors, mortgage brokers, and other experienced professionals. I take these qualities of our clientele to mean that our way of doing business, unadulterated buyer advocacy, is finding a real resonance in the world of well-informed real estate buyers.

We have buyers looking all the way from southern Monterey County up to Montara, and as far inland as South Lake Tahoe. We have also helped buyers find the best agents in other parts of the state, and of course, we love to help sellers find the most effective agents to use when selling their property, right here at home, or anywhere in the world.

In Monterey County, Allyson Ramage has recently been spending time in the Carmel Highlands, and I will be involved in several goings-on  at the Monterey County Association of Realtors in the upcoming weeks. In Santa Cruz, Trevor Roberti has been putting his financial skills to work, both analyzing some large investment properties and helping first-time home-buyers make sound decisions about their purchases. Rex Kuns has been with the BB for just over a month, but he has already helped BB buyers into beach homes and multi-res investment properties.

2010 is setting up to be a very interesting year for the Double B, and I hope that if you are thinking about buying real estate, or if you know anyone who is, you'll give one of us a call and let us show you how we can help. (831) GET-HOME