Housing

Episode 51: David Aronovici on Home Inspections

David Aronovici grew up in beautiful Aptos, California – in the heart of bucolic Santa Cruz County. His youthful passion as a surfer led him into a career in surf board manufacturing, which he pursued for 20 years before transitioning into real estate home inspections. When buying or selling real estate, one of the most…

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Episode 32: Evan Siroky, YIMBY: Yes to Housing!

Evan Siroky is the founder of the Santa Cruz YIMBY’s.  These are the Yes in My Back Yard folks who are advocating for increased housing construction in Santa Cruz county.  The YIMBYs are the opposite of NIMBYs, who seek to block most new residential projects.  We’ve got an interesting dynamic in Santa Cruz, and in…

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Episode 19: Victor Romero Sums Up the Mortgage Business

There are all kinds of reasons why you’d want to know what’s going on in the residential mortgage business, even if you don’t own a home or never plan on doing so.  One of those reasons is because you’d have a good reason to have a chat with Victor Romero, who is as warm, genuine,…

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Episode 17: Ian Magruder is taking off with Landed

Ian Magruder joined me for a discussion of Landed, the San Francisco-based startup company he works for.  When you sit down with Ian, you can really feel how excited he is about Landed’s work and its mission.  The mission is simple:  to help people buy a home, by providing down payment assistance. Ask anyone living…

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Episode 6: Real Estate Appraisal with Kristina Campbell

In this episode of the Bay to Bay Podcast, we speak with Kristina Campbell, a licensed real estate appraiser who works exclusively in the Santa Cruz County (California) market. It was a wide ranging and engaging discussion, touching on a number of appraisal issues that will be of interest to anyone who is thinking about…

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Episode 2: California 2018 Housing Market Forecast

Listen to a recording of the presentation on the 2018 California housing market, given by Leslie Appleton-Young at the California Association of Realtors Conference and Expo in San Diego in October 2017. Leslie is the chief economist for the California Association of Realtors, and she always gives very detailed and insightful prognostications for the future…

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Episode 1: The Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz

This is our first episode of the Bay to Bay Podcast!  Last week, I appeared on KSCO radio to talk with producer Brad Polisuk about the Santa Cruz Housing Crisis. I was joined by Evan Siroky from Santa Cruz YIMBYs (“Yes In My Back Yard”) and Robert Singleton of the Santa Cruz County Business Council….

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