The Best Neighborhoods in Pacific Grove

Pacific Grove is a small city, roughly three square miles, and it is more internally varied than most buyers realize when they first consider it. The difference between a home on the coastal bluff and a home six blocks inland is not just a price difference — it is a different daily experience of the

When a Marriage Ends: How Divorce Affects Monterey Peninsula Real Estate

California's community property framework has specific and consequential implications for how real estate is handled when a marriage ends. Most married homeowners in California have a general understanding that both spouses have equal rights to marital property, but the details of how that principle

Gifting Property to Your Children: Tax & Legal Considerations

The impulse is generous and understandable. A parent who has owned a Monterey Peninsula home for decades wants to see their children enjoy it, wants to simplify the estate while they are alive to explain their intentions, and wants to give rather than make their children wait. What most parents do n