Doug Buenz
Real Estate Broker
Alain Pinel Realtors
(925) 463-2000
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I am a local Real Estate Broker with Alain Pinel Realtors serving the Pleasanton and the Tri-Valley area. I am an avid watcher of the local real estate market, as well as cultural and political events. But that is what I do, not who I am... » read more
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The Pleasanton Ca real estate market showed some life in October, especially on the high end, with pending sales up from a disappointing September, and inventory continuing to drift downward. The prospect of further interest rate cuts is hopefully spurring some buyers go get off the fence and take advantage of some of the …
Okay, so word on the street is that the Fed is going to lower the Federal Funds rate tomorrow. Wall Street and the Bond Market has already priced in a 1/4% rate drop. If Bernanke lowers the rate 1/2%, it could give an additional boost to the stock market, and ease short term …
Yeah, we all tend to hate commercials. Non-stop interruptions, same dumb ads over and over. But there are some good things that occasionally come out of commercials. Sometimes, there are pop culture references that become integrated into the mainstream, such as the “Wazzzzzzup” bud light commercials, or the Geico Caveman ads (which …
Okay, time to get our weekly dose of bad news out of the way. Hopefully in the near future, we will be able to write about good things are for Pleasanton real estate, but we are not quite there yet. So here it goes;
* New home sales nationally were up slightly from …
The old saying in real estate is location, location, location. Certainly this is true on macro level. An average home in Manhattan is certainly worth more than an average home in Jackson, Mississippi. But as the Pleasanton/Dublin/San Ramon market slows, the location of a property takes on more significance in terms of …
Well, we’re half way through the month of October, and the Pleasanton real estate market is moving along at about the same relative pace that is did last month. So far in October, we have 16 single family homes that are pending, which is about the same as the first half on September. …
Okay, first let’s get the bad news out of the way. It seems like every week we are hit with bad news about the housing market, and this week is no exception.
* The California Association of Realtors predicts home prices and sales will be lower next year. It forecasts sales of existing …
If you just read or listen to the national media, you would think that getting a mortgage loan today is a lot like getting audited by the IRS… a painful, nerve racking experience that inevitably leaves you poorer. But there is good news in the Pleasanton and Tri-Valley CA mortgage market. The lending …
By now you have probably wondered what they are building on Valley Ave at the Hopyard Rd intersection in Pleasanton, CA. It used to be a drive through bank branch with those weird air tubes that shoot your money to the teller… kind of like something out of the movie Bananas by Woody Allen. …
The Merrit Property, a highly desirable 46 acre parcel located on Foothill Road in Pleasanton, looks like it will have another development proposal submitted in the near future. Ponderosa Homes, who has built several subdivisions in Pleasanton, along with the Merritt family and DeSilva Group, are seeking input on their preliminary development plan from …
The Pleasanton City Council approved the contentious Oak Grove project East of Kottinger Ranch Tuesday night. The project, which will feature 51 custom lots, and ultimately custom homes from 6000 to 12,000 sq ft in the hills above Kottinger Ranch. The city gets almost 500 acres of open space, along with $1 million …
Interesting day for the financial markets, and the Plesanton and Tri-Valley real estate markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed above 14,000 today as the stock market rallied to a record high. According to Bloomberg.com:
…investors speculated the worst may be over for banks and construction companies hurt by subprime mortgage losses
Lennar Corp. and …
The numbers are in for the Pleasanton CA real estate market in September, and yes sales were down for the month as compared with last month. It continued the downward trend in pending sales since June, which had 67 pending sales. September ended at 36 pending sales for the month. Inventory also …
If you are like me, you know subconsciously that you are getting older, but it is generally not something you think about every day. Days, weeks, months go by, and then one day, perhaps after viewing photos from a family event or some social gathering, you are confronted with undeniable evidence that even Phil …
