Archive for May, 2008

Raymond Stoklosa

State of the San Mateo Housing Market

As May comes to a close, let’s take a look at the current state of the San Mateo County, California, real estate market.
While the media continues to depict the Mid-Peninsula (and rest of the U.S.) as a faltering market, the stats show a different story. San Mateo County saw 493 single family homes placed under [...]

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Rebecca Williamson

San Mateo Home Valuation Tool for Instant Home Value

As we have said many times before, all real estate is local. Relying on generic reports about the real estate market in the U.S., California, or even as localized as San Mateo County or your city, is not always an accurate representation of how the market is performing in your neighborhood.
Market Snapshot pulls information from [...]

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Raymond Stoklosa

Announcing a New Addition to Our Team

I saw today that I have over 50 posts on here detailing how to buy and sell a home in San Mateo County and that seemed like an awful lot…. But the truth is, we haven’t even cracked the surface.
Figuring you all are probably tired of hearing me talk, I asked my daughter, Rebecca Williamson, [...]

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Raymond Stoklosa

San Mateo Real Estate Conflict Resolution Management – Arbitration

Rounding out our week of posting about legalities and liability – let’s talk about two more interesting topics: mediation and arbitration.
Let’s face it, from time to time, a buyer and seller will have a serious disagreement. Not too many years ago, the only way to settle a dispute was a lawsuit, but now there are [...]

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Raymond Stoklosa

Can a San Mateo Home County Buyer Cancel a Contract to Purchase?

All the chaos and uncertainty in today’s world provoked an interesting question from one of my home buying clients. The question went something like this:
After all the buyer’s contingencies have been removed, can a home buyer cancel the contract to purchase as a consequence of the catastrophic event, such as an earthquake, and if so, [...]

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