Within walking distance of downtown and brimming with Sonoma County history, Petaluma’s Midtown neighborhood is a popular choice with first-time buyers, thanks to both its convenience and relatively affordable homes.
If you’re planning interior and exterior renovations in advance of putting your home on the market, upgrading the kitchen and the roof may be the smartest calls, according to results of a new survey. And even if you intend to stay put, the right home-remodeling jobs can increase your satisfaction and quality of life.
An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that buying a home makes smart financial sense, according to a just-released survey by the National Association of Realtors.
October is here. If you’re a buyer in the Bay Area or the Lake Tahoe/Truckee region, you need to act fast to make your dream a reality in 2015. Need an incentive? It’s likely that the superlow interest rates of recent years will soon be a memory.
For 10 percent of Americans, home away from home is a self-storage locker that houses the overflow of busy lives. Here are some tips to make sure your prized possessions are kept safe if you put them in storage.
As more and more devices for the home are connected to the Internet, tech companies are trying to develop an easy-to-use digital hub that would allow consumers to communicate with a variety of gadgets and technologies from a single Web page or a smartphone.
Recent news of interest to homebuyers, home sellers, and the home-curious includes a study that slaps San Francisco with an F for home affordability for the third straight year. Also, two major Bay Area regions have been named among the nation’s 10 most educated, a factor that drives the economy and thus demand for housing.
Never mind the Wi-Fi-enabled Crock-Pot and “smart” washing machines introduced at the recent Consumer Electronics Show. Smart-home technology is advancing rapidly and may become an integral part of our daily lives in as soon as five years.
Recent news of interest to homebuyers, home sellers, and the home-curious includes news that Bay Area startups are trying to eat up Craigslist’s astonishing market share in rental listings. Also, U.S. pending home sales are down from last year.
