A Vabrato Winter Holiday Observation by: Janet Whittemore & Mark Martinho As we enter the...

Single family Homes in San Mateo County are not cheap, most are selling in the $1,000-$1,300/SqFt of...

Hooray!!! San Carlos Life has Arrived! San Carlos Life is here! We are extremely proud to present o...

Safe from Radon Gas? Statistically speaking the majority of homes will not have significant levels o...

Minimizing Capital Gains. So, what are the tax exemptions when selling your home? Well, Prior to 19...

In the old days you could simply inherit a home from your parents and keep their low property tax ra...

Keeping Low Property Taxes when Selling your Home Under Prop 19 So you bought your San Carlos CA...

Sadly a few years back a balcony collapsed in Berkely during a party and several young people died...

In 2018 California passed Senate Bill 100.  The law requires that energy sources be both renewable ...

838 Seminole Way attracted an impressive total of 17 offers—a testament to its appeal. Initially l...

Thinking about Living in an HOA? What to look out for when Purchasing- Financials: when buying ...

2 Strategies on how to Reduce or Avoid Capital Gains Taxes Bay Area single-family homes have about ...

2 Strategies on how to Avoid or Reduce Capital Gains Tax In our previous blog about avoiding Capita...

UPDATE July 1, 2025: An earlier version of AB 942 would have reduced existing NEM contracts from 20 ...

The SALT (State and Local Tax) deduction allows taxpayers to deduct their payments for state and loc...

Keep in mind that the FAIR Plan is not a government program, but rather a shared market where licens...

Last month, we reported that the number of single-family homes being put up for sale in San Mateo an...

A Story of Homeownership At Plantation Coffee MinJae and Haeun Cheong, known to friends at Plantati...

When Bay Area clients ask me where are home prices are headed, I love to tell them to look to the st...

I know that home prices seem like they are out of control; the average single family home in San Mat...

September Interest-Rate Cut. The July 5th job reports showed solid hiring in June, plus signs the U...

San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties Break Records- Home prices for San Mateo and Santa Clara Countie...

The twin-peaked lumber bubble of 2021 and 2022 that drove home building costs through the roof and e...

State Farm is looking to raise insurance rates in a massive rate hike for some California customers ...

To address the housing shortage in California, bills A.B. 2299 and S.B. 1069 were passed in 2016, re...

Real Estate Market Update: What Happened in San Mateo County? The San Mateo County real estate mark...

So, recently, we’ve been hit with a surprisingly large number of questions about the new real esta...

On July 10, 2025, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced the No Tax on Home Sales Act — a ...

Under the new “Big Beautiful” 2025 tax bill, the deduction for the money you pay on State and lo...

Inflation still looms large as tariffs go into effect coupled with many people being nervous about t...

  Real Estate Market Slowdown The local real estate market for single-family homes started th...

WHAT HAPPENED TO INSURANCE RATES? If you haven’t been hiding under a rock (or living in an underg...

Compass Merger Will Cast An Invisibility Cloak Over Many Listings. In September 2025, the colossus ...

Solar Panel Reimbursement Rates Under Court Review. (NEM 3.0 and the Case of the Vanishing Credits)...

Low Supply, Low Demand: Attack of the Vanishing Listings & Invisible Buyers. For 25 years, sing...

A New Chapter for Bay Area Retirees For many homeowners, retirement comes with a life-changing ques...

First, lets start off with a New Year salutation. We at Vabrato hope that 2026 will be a happy, heal...