And quite a month the last one has been 6/24 – 7/24 … in those glorious days 212 Marin County homes and condos have closed escrow … right now there are 1250 such on the market for you to choose from … 296 are conditionally in escrow and another 123 are ‘awaiting the moving van’ ready-to-close. So let’s go shopping! To arrange your trip … contact me now www.tomverkozen.com .

If the fun is in quick sales, there have been a few: Barr Haney and Whitney Potter of Pacific Union-Morgan Lane teamed up to sell the beautiful four bedroom rebuild at 25 Heather, Larkspur … and it went with multiple offers before the brokers’ open house (listed at $1,450,000) … while Matthew MacPhee, Frank Howard Allen, recently retired assistant manager of my office, teamed up with Kerry Berry to sell 51 Austin, San Anselmo … to buyers represented by Mike Finelli, who’d showed it to the buyers when it was on the market in ’09 … it sold for $2,190,000 … $612 per square foot if you’re mathematically inclined.

Ahh, the statistics continue … my old boss Astrid Trauth always said, “Statistics are like a bikini, what they reveal is interesting, what they hide is critical.” … The average list price for this month in Marin was $973,571 and the average sales price was close enough to that at $939,438. The price per square foot was $444 … and the days on the market averaged 91.

But the glory is in the details … the least expensive sale was the San Rafael condo at 35 Fairfax which sold after 21 days on the market for $110,000. The two highest priced properties to sell were 133 Sugarloaf, Tiburon (blogged about earlier, six days on the market) and 3 Britton, Belvedere which went at $4,580,000 after 80 days.

The loudest WHEW was accomplished by David Shapiro, the Terra Linda expert and my San Rafael Frank Howard Allen office mate, representing the buyers when he sold the four bedroom home at 19 Hollyleaf in Novato’s Pointe Marin (off of Ignacio Blvd) after 695 days on the market … the home started at $1,089,000 in ’08 then was relisted by Marc O’Brien of Bradley Real Estate at $1,020,000 … and finally sold for $725,000. Whew!

The month’s information would continue but I just received a call from someone who made an offer on a Stinson Beach listing a year ago and now wants to go after one of the properties you read about here two weeks ago … and off I go. Wish us both luck! Then simply think REAL ESTATE and call (415) 257-2039, okay?

Posted by:  Tom Verkozen