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...
The past month delivered a jolt of inflation driven by energy prices, a jobs market holding steady but not growing, and a Federal Reserve more publicly divided than it has been in more than three decades. In Berkeley, the spring market seems largely indifferent to all...
