Anne Fashauer Anderson Valley Real Estate

2011 was not a big year for sales in Anderson Valley.  There were ten residential sales and six land sales.  One of the residential sales was "distressed" meaning it was either a short sale or an REO (bank owned sale). In 2010, there were 12 residential sales and 10 land sales.  For a little comparison, in both 2000 and in ...

We've been home from Cabo for about two and a half weeks now and it seems worlds away.  We came home just before Christmas to a bit of madness - last minute shopping, a few delayed meetings and decorating the Christmas tree.  We did that last on Christmas eve itself!  We had family here for the holiday which was really nice, ...

A couple of weeks have passed since I last had a chance to sit and write.  In that time I finally visited Hyampom, the town where my beau is working part of the time.  It's a very remote, very rural place; it's quite pretty but it has nothing on Anderson Valley.  It's also very cold - the elevation of the valley is not ...

It seems as though Mother Nature wanted us to make sure we knew that the season was changing as she brought in a slight rain storm just as we passed through the autumnal equinox.  The air and the light have changed; the mornings are cooler, crisper, the afternoons filled with a golden tint and the last warmth of the year as the sun moves away ...

I received a call from someone last week asking my opinion on whether or not a Class K building permit makes a difference when one goes to sell the property.  According to the Mendocino County Building Department website FAQ's page, "Class K is a relaxed construction standard available to owner-built rural dwellings and appurtenant ...

I've been involved in three different markets in the past few weeks.  The difference between them and our own real estate market has me thinking. First, I've been helping, or trying to help, some friends buy a home in Santa Rosa.  They are looking in a certain area and most of what they have liked has been bank owned.  ...

The past two weeks have been about as busy as I've ever been.  It started with my beau's surgery, which is routine and outpatient, but the recovery is very slow and they just don't prepare you for just how little this person is going to be able to do for the first week - walking was a challenge.  I spent the first days ...

At the last minute my beau and I decided to head for Sacramento over Memorial Weekend to get some sunshine, warmth and jazz - it was the annual Sacramento Jazz Festival.  We attended last year and had a lot of fun and this year was another winner for fun, if not for sunshine and warmth.  We arrived Friday evening and headed out to ...

I felt a bit of Britain on Friday afternoon when a couple of British friends came over for "high tea" - pots of a special a special Twinings release just for the occasion, a white tea with a hint of bergamot and rose petals, cucumber sandwiches, cookies shaped like teapots and decorated with Union Jacks and sundry other biscuits (cookies ...

According to a recent article in Fortune magazine, the answer is Yes!  Shawn Tully, in an article entitled "The Return of Real Estate" in the April 11, 2011 edition of Fortune, calls real estate "The most attractive asset class in America."  The article focuses on the shortage of new home construction but he also ...