News & Updates

A Strong Early Spring Market It happened.  Another early-spring market filled with multiple offers, motivated buyers, and sellers in many communities realizing higher sales prices than the previous quarter.  Yes, there is still plenty of uncertainty in the markets, both at a micro and macro level, but I’m seeing a tale...
Historical View of Monthly Home Sales I love data, which is why I collect and track it. Just finished pulling the numbers for Palo Alto, Los Altos and Sunnyvale. Dropping this here for you in case you're like me.     
Average Sales Price History 2013 - Q1 2023 A lot of you ask for this, remember this is the average raw data and please know this isn’t a great gauge of neighborhood value changes. Let’s talk for more info!  
Nick's Extreme Makeovers: Preparing a move-in ready house instead of a tear-down Sneak peak into one of my upcoming Los Altos listings and the prep work going on right now. My goal for this one is to maximize our buyer pool with specific strategic updates. I've had my GC license for over a decade, enabling me to leverage direct relationships with...
Nick's Extreme Makeovers: Creating an open floorplan My clients and I worked together to buy their house 10 years ago and they are ready to remodel for an open floorplan. Because I have my GC license, I'm able to leverage direct relationships with trades and offer these services to my real estate clients.
It's Spring Market Season This weekend marks the start of the Spring Market! It's about to get crazy up in here!
2023 Market Prediction It's important to know how our local market is going to behave. There are many aspects that go into predicting the outlook of our market and I'm in a unique spot to triangulate this for you so we can have all the information you'll need to make...
In The Field - Checking On My Remodel Projects Ride along with me as I check out one of my remodel projects. Because I have my GC license, I'm able to help my clients with their remodel needs pre sale and post purchase.
2022: Year in Review | 2023: What to Expect I am sure you would agree it has been quite the year, especially in the past six months.  As recently as the past few weeks we witnessed an Enron-like collapse at the likes of Madoff via FTX, a theater-worthy drama movie 280 characters at a time (Twitter) and the return...
For Those Who Say Real Estate Values Never Go Down 2002, 2009, 2018, 2022 — these are the years I experienced real estate value dips in my real estate career.  I also remember the 90’s dip and have heard about the 80’s Savings and Loan crisis.  I want to highlight this because when the market is humming along people forget...
Average Sales Price History 2010 to September 2022 A lot of you ask for this, remember this is the average raw data and please know this isn’t a great gauge of neighborhood value changes. Let’s talk for more info!  
It’s Here! How to Navigate the New Economy SUMMER 2022 QUARTERLY BLOG For those that recall my spring newsletter, I wrote about the volatility and uncertainty of 2022.  At that time the market was insanely hot with FOMO (fear of missing out) in full force.  I told buyers not to fret because the seasonality of real estate (in...