August 2019

Santa Cruz real estate and it's ongoing relationship with Silicon Valley

August 15, 2019Continuing the conversation...strolling down memory lane, looking at Santa Cruz real estate and how its ongoing relationship with Silicon Valley has changed over the last 30 years. We left off as the market was careening intothe late 1990s in the crazy run-up that accompanied the even more crazy dot.com bubble.Things were exploding outward from SiliconValley to the rest of the planet through a rashof start-ups and IPOs. For a while, It seemed like a steady streamof thirty-something techies were wanderingaround Santa Cruz neighborhoods franticallysearching for...

Terry Ballantyne

- Terry Ballantyne

How do you know when it’s time?

August 11, 2019It is clear to me in talking to hundreds of folks over 60-70, myself included, that they don't feel old. They don't feel much different than they did around 35. If they are in reasonable health, they still feel as though they should be able to move the couch across the room, tear up a flower bed, repaint the shed, left that planter, trim the hedge on a ladder. You know, all the stuff you have done all your life. Haven't they always done those...

1996… Silicon Valley was on a hiring binge

August 8, 2019Continuing the conversation...strolling down memory lane, looking at the Santa Cruz real estate market and how its relationship with Silicon Valley has changed over the last 30 years. We left off as the market was heading into 1996...Silicon Valley was on a hiring binge and HB-1 tech visas were maxed out. The entire Bay Area was filling up with more new people coming from parts unknown outside the area. All those people and jobs accelerated things on both sides of the hill. Here on the...

Picking up in the early ‘90s…our market was in a huge downturn

August 2, 2019Continuing the conversation...strolling down memory lane, looking at the Santa Cruz real estate market and how its relationship with Silicon Valley has changed over the last 30 years. And for better or worse, how our close proximity to one of the most rarefied regions in the world continues to shape the three big- gest concerns on everyone’s short list: housing, jobs and traffic. Picking up in the early ‘90s...our market was in a huge downturn between 1990 and 1993. Most locals thought it was the...