- Tom Brezsny

“March Madness” in the Real Estate Market

February 28, 2025Remember, those many months ago, way back in the autumnal fastness of last October, when I was getting my nag on and bugging everyone thinking about selling a home to be proactive, get a game plan together and start doing all the things they should be doing to get their home ready? All so that they’d be ready when the exact right moment rolled around in 2025? Well, guess what? That perfect moment has arrived! That day is March 1st, 2025. And ready or not,...

- Tom Brezsny

The Distress Market

February 21, 2025Today’s question? What’s the one big thing, above all other things, that has defined the Santa Cruz County real estate market over the last twelve years? Starting way back in the early spring of 2013 when it became clear we were turning the corner and starting to climb out of the doldrums of the Great Recession? That’s when the Distress Market reached its tipping point.  Prior to that, a huge number of short sales, foreclosures and bank-owned properties accounted for almost 40% of local real...