by Mark Martinho | Mar 10, 2023 | Headliner, Real Estate Blogs
Buying a San Carlos CA Home So, you’re thinking about buying a San Carlos CA home? Congrats, they don’t call it “The City of Good Living” for nothing, you will not regret moving into it, but you might regret the home you buy if you’re not...
by Mark Martinho | Mar 8, 2023 | Real Estate Blogs, Headliner
Electrifying Homes In 2018 California passed Senate Bill 100. The law requires that energy sources be both renewable and zero-carbon for generating 100 percent of electricity to California customers by 2045. So, power plants can’t use fossil or nuclear fuels by...
by Mark Martinho | Mar 3, 2023 | Headliner, Real Estate Blogs
San Carlos CA Real Estate Stats – Single Family Home Prices So, February 2023 is behind us and the real estate stats for San Carlos CA are now available. Here is a summary of where home prices are today: San Carlos CA homes are selling for $1,306/SqFt of living...
by Mark Martinho | Mar 1, 2023 | Headliner, Real Estate Blogs
Safer Structures – California’s Balcony & Exterior Elevated Elements Laws Sadly a few years back a balcony collapsed in Berkely during a party and several young people died. This awful event resulted in California passing two laws. SB326 and SB721. Both of...
by Mark Martinho | Feb 24, 2023 | Headliner, Real Estate Blogs
Selling a San Carlos CA Home So, you’re looking at selling a San Carlos CA Home? Hopefully, it’s for a great new opportunity in your life! So maybe it’s been a while since you’ve sold a home, or this is the first time selling one? Let’s...
by Mark Martinho | Feb 20, 2023 | Headliner, Real Estate Blogs
Keeping Low Property Taxes when Selling your Home Under Prop 19 So you bought your San Carlos CA home a long time ago and have super low property taxes. You’d like to move within California, but you want to keep your low property taxes? Well, if you (or your spouse if...
by Mark Martinho | Feb 15, 2023 | Real Estate Blogs, Headliner
Inheriting Property Under Prop 19 – Keeping Lower Property Taxes In the old days you could simply inherit a home from your parents in San Carlos CA and keep their low property tax rates. Gone are those days – things are more complicated now! Today, when...
by Mark Martinho | Feb 10, 2023 | Headliner, Real Estate Blogs
Tax Exemptions when Selling your Home – Minimizing Capital Gains So, what are the tax exemptions when Selling your Home in San Carlos CA? Well, Prior to 1997 when you sold your primary San Carlos CA residence you could use all the funds to purchase a new...
by Mark Martinho | Feb 6, 2023 | Real Estate Blogs, Headliner
Safe from Radon Gas? Statistically speaking the majority of homes will not have significant levels of radon to be considered health risks, but that still leaves tens of thousands of homes in San Mateo County that could be considered unhealthy or outright dangerous....
by Mark Martinho | Feb 6, 2023 | Headliner, Real Estate Blogs
Preventing Capital Gain Taxes when you sell your San Carlos CA home is the quest here. So, your home went way up in value, which is great, but you can’t stomach the amount of capital gain taxes you’d have to pay if you sold it? Well, there is a little trick under the...
