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In this short video, Robert Aldana gives an assessment of the current Scotts Valley area real estate market and gives information on how it compares to the same time last year, and what we should expect this year.     (more)

On January 30, 2017, Robert Aldana was notified by the Santa Cruz Sentinel that he was The Reader’s Choice for 2016 BEST REALTOR® in SCOTTS VALLEY. “I do not know that I am the best REALTOR®, with so many wonderful agents in the area, but I strive to be the best that I can be everyday,” said Robert. Robert, a 30 plus year real estate veteran... (more)

“Robert, I have been looking for a home for some time now and we just can’t seem to have any luck finding either finding a place, or getting our offers accepted. We look and look and when we find homes that we like, we immediately call the listing agent and have them show it to us and our agent is quick to respond with an offer but we keep getting beat out. Any... (more)

The Scotts Valley real estate market continues to thrive with a wave of buyers from Silicon Valley and beyond snatching up available homes at a pace that could lead a record breaking year in home appreciation. Single Family Closed Sales YTD – As of this writing, May 13th 2015, the average list price for closed single-family homes is $799,606 and the average sales... (more)

If you were able to purchase a home this first quarter, you no doubt experienced a flurry of activity between home buyers as you tried to get your foot into the door of home-ownership in Scotts Valley. Fueled by the coming of home buyers coming from Silicon Valley, many with cash, demand far outweighed supply once again resulting in an average sales price to... (more)

2014 was another banner year for the Scotts Valley real estate market as the average sales price of single family homes went from $749,325 in 2013 to $809,229, an increase of $59,904. There was also an increase in closed sales from 125 to 138 from 2013 to 2014 which represents a 10% increase. The sales price to list price ratio was 99%, meaning the sales price... (more)

New Listing Inventory Drying Up November’s real estate activity in Scotts Valley, specifically in the 95066 zip code showed a lot less new homes on the market with more closings than new listings by a higher than 2-to-1 ratio as there were only 7 new residential listings that came on the market compared to 15 closings. New Listings Of the 7 new listings, 3 were... (more)

The Numbers SINGLE FAMILY HOMES After two months of closings at about 97% of asking price for single-family homes in the Scotts Valley area, October closings came in at a crisp .998 of asking price. That is almost as close to 100% as you can get, and about a 3% difference upwards versus closings in August and September of this year. In other words, homes that... (more)

Up and down, up and down. That is how the housing market goes according to the time of the year, and according to what interest rates are doing. As we go into the last quarter of the year, it appears that new inventory could be on the decline as 8 new listings have come on the market since October 1st. As of today, October 16th, that represents .50 listings per... (more)

Less Homes For Sale The month of August was a month with less listings per day, with .87 per day, then just two months prior when June showed an average of 1.19 per day. This represents a drop in new listings on the market of 27% in just two months. Single-Family Homes Of the 27 new listings, 22 were single-family homes. 8 of the new single-family home listings... (more)