The Estate Planning Conversation Every Homeowner Should Have Before They List

She had been calculating the number for years. A Monterey Peninsula homeowner, widowed several years earlier, had been preparing to sell the home she and her husband had purchased together in the late 1980s. She knew roughly what it was worth. She knew roughly what they had paid for it. The differen

Downsizing on the Monterey Peninsula

There is a particular quality to the silence in a house that has been fully lived in. The rooms that held homework and arguments and Sunday mornings. The kitchen that has seen thirty years of ordinary meals. The garden that someone tended through every season. When the conversation about moving fina

Preparing Your Home for Sale: What's Actually Worth Doing

Consider two sellers on the same street, both listing comparable homes at $2.2 million within the same month. The first seller spent $80,000 on a full kitchen remodel in the twelve months before listing. New cabinets, new countertops, new appliances. She was proud of it. The second seller spent $28,