Selling a Berkeley home in 2026 is not the same as selling almost anywhere else in California. Between the city’s layered transfer taxes, the newly expanded emissions ordinance that now affects every single-family sale, and a buyer pool that knows exactly what a...
If you own a home in Berkeley and have been following California’s insurance market, you already know the headlines have not been easy to read. The California FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, recently received approval for its largest rate...
Few pieces of California tax law affect real estate decisions as directly as Proposition 19. Passed by voters in November 2020 and phased into effect beginning February 2021, Prop 19 restructured two fundamental pillars of California property taxation: how seniors and...
