Urban sophistication with top of the line stylish features throughout

Newly constructed, this piece of Bay Area real estate is located in the Central San Francisco neighborhood of Noe Valley.

Presented by Payton Stiewe of Sotheby’s International Realty, 943 Church Street is a 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with fantastic eastern views from most rooms.

With 24th Street and Dolores Park a few blocks away, this property’s amenities include the following features: Large eat-in gourmet kitchen , luxurious view master suite, separate office / 4th bedroom, fully equipped Media Room, landscaped walk-out garden with Ipae deck, one car parking and more.

Price available upon request.

To learn more and to see additional photos of this Cover Home property, which was featured on page 5 in San Francisco Bay Area Homes Magazine (Volume 20 - Number 8), go to www.PaytonsList.com.

Payton Stiewe | 415.401.9966 | Payton@PaytonsList.com

117 Greenwich Street
San Francisco, CA 94111

Soak up The Boulders Lifestyle…Luxury condominiums for sale in Truckee, California starting in the high $400,000s

The Boulders at Truckee in the Tahoe, California area welcomes you to your dream home…

• A ‘Place of Your Own’ for Winter & Summer
• Easy access to Interstate 80
• Walk to restaurants & grocery shopping
• Minutes to Historic Downtown Truckee & Donner Lake
• An easy drive to four major ski resorts:
• Squaw Valley with its new Base Village
• Northstar with its future Base Village
• Alpine Meadows, the "Local’s Favorite"
• Sugar Bowl, enjoying a new renaissance
• A short excursion to Tahoe City & Lake Tahoe

Visit www.BouldersAtTruckee.com or contact Sally Gardner at 530.587.7098 for additional community information, amenities and pricing information. Send email to info@bouldersattruckee.com

Panoramic Views in Templeton | Experience the "Good Life"

Real estate agent Jan Bewley proudly presents this Templeton property as the cover home for Central Coast Homes Magazine Volume 24 - Number 4. An incredible handcrafted home of approximately 4200 sq. ft., this is truly a unique property evidenced by the massive mahogany entry door which welcomes you from the portico. Presenting an exquisite fountain which frames a view of the pool.

The gourmet kitchen opens to the great room allowing for spacious entertaining. No words can illustrate the views waiting to greet you from a winter’s morning to a summer’s sunset. The panoramic vineyard views are a pleasure to behold from the spacious master suite! 

A media/game room is appointed with a fireplace, pool table area and movie viewing alcove. A 3 bedroom/2 bath guest house is perfect for your guests, family or as a rental. Set on 6.74 acres which would accommodate horses, vineyard or olive orchard.

Call Jan at 805.674.4280 or email her at jan@bewleybell.com for an appointment or to request an e-tour of this property. To view this and additional San Luis Obispo County real estate listings, visit her website at www.BewleyBell.com.

Property Listed by Jan Bewley Bell, Realtor®

Peabody & Plum, Realtors®, Inc.
www.peabodyplum.com

"No One Serves You Better"

Wonderful in Windsor Serenity in the Country

A wrap-around porch surrounds this single story 3 bedroom 2 bath home located in the country setting of this 2.5 acre parcel in Windsor, California. The open floor plan of this Sonoma County property listed by Craig Curreri of Sonoma County’s Gold Team also provides a den for the home office or retreat area. Hardwood flooring, soaring ceilings, gated entrance, attached 4 car garage, and more. All just minutes from Windsor’s Town Green, Healdsburg’s historic Plaza, Sonoma County Airport, Windsor Golf Course, and numerous award winning wineries. Offered at $1,295,000

To view this property pick up a copy of Homes Magazine Volumne 24, Issue 4. To get information on this and other available Wine Country real estate, visit the team’s website at www.sonomacountysgoldteam.com.

Wine Country Homes Magazine cover property presented by

Sonoma County’s Gold Team

Rogers, Curreri & Goldschlag  |  Coldwell Banker

sonomacountysgoldteam@comcast.net

707.535.1854

One of Kind Architectural Gem Wrapped in Beauty in Mill Valley
Newly Priced at $1,459,000

Sometimes there is a home that redefines itself. This Mill Valley, California beauty is one of these special properties. When the previous owner designed the space, his goal was to create a retreat that was one of a kind. The home was completely rebuilt in 1997.

Escape on pathways winding by hidden fountains, whimsical gardens and outdoor spa leading to miles of hiking and biking. This one of a kind residence is only minutes to San Francisco, but a million stress miles away.

For additional information about this cover home and other Marin real estate properties presented by Cathy Youngling, Realtor, visit her on the web at www.realmaringal.com. Or visit her blog at www.realmaringal.blogspot.com.

Property presented by Cathy Youngling, Realtor   

cyoungling@realmaringal.com  |  415.464.3768

Pacific Union Realty  |  www.pacunion.com

San Francisco | Marin | Napa | Sonoma | Contra Costa| Alameda

Expansive Carmel Bay, Point Lobos, Golf Links and Ocean Views in Pebble Beach

www.BestinPebbleBeach.com

It’s hard to say which draws the most attention: this classic Mediterranean estate home or the vastly expansive ovean views.

Coldwell Banker Del Monte real estate agents, Rick Kennifer and Greg Kraft present this luxury estate of stunning elegance combined with an unparalleled view overlooking Carmel Bay, Point Lobos, the Pebble Beach Golf Links and the Fish Ranch as the home featured on the cover of the Monterey Peninsula Homes Magazine - Volume 13 - Issue 6.

Perched on a special headlands, a breathtaking experience awaits on Del Ciervo Road in Pebble Beach as you approach an authentic old-world elegance that clearly exemplifies the unbelievable endeavors to import materials from around the world and design this classic, yet only 4-year-old estate home.

The craftsmanship exhibited in the extensive Carmel stone masonry, fine furniture hardwoods, and bronze blacksmithing are truly examples of fine artists ar work.

With over 10,000 sq. ft. of consistent attnention to detail, each room offers everything you might expect and most assuredly, even more. Every room rightfully focuses on the main attraction — Carmel Bay and front line coastal Pebble Beach!

Incomparable landscape design offers many places to relax and take it all in. The best thing to do is to experience this Monterey Peninsula estate and prepare to fall in love. The "finest in Pebble Beach" awaits a very luck new owner.

Offered at $30,000,000

This unique property is presented by:

Rick Kennifer, CRS
Coldwell Banker Del Monte
831.626.2284  |  www.kennifer.com   |  rick@kennifer.com

Greg Kraft
Coldwell Banker Del Monte
831.521.0009  |  GregKraft@CAmoves.com

Build Your Brand and Increase Traffic to Your Website

A new study reinforces the long-held concept that magazine ads containing URLs can help drive traffic to advertisers web sites. URLs in ads can help real estate agents improve the effectiveness of their ads. Among the various forms of media, including television, newspapers, and radio, magazine advertising leads in prompting consumers to go online. Magazine advertising moves readers to action, including visiting web sites and searching on the web. Magazine advertising also excels at driving brand favorability. (MPA)

Real estate agents should remember to always include a website in their ads, to add lift to their brand, whether they are promoting their own agent site or a single individual property through an agent website or listing product like the Showcase Builder flipbooks offered through Homes Magazine.com.  

The following article from Online Media Daily was written by Erik Sass, Friday, May 30, 2008 7:00 AM ET

Click-Happy Readers Respond to URLs in Magazine Ads

A new study from the Magazine Publishers of America shows that including URLs in magazine ads drives readers to advertiser Web sites. The analysis of 833 print ads in seven magazines, performed by VISTA’s print effectiveness rating service, showed that ads with Web addresses were up to three times as likely to drive readers to a Web site, depending on the magazine category.

The biggest increases came in the home, women’s service and travel categories, where ads including URLs were 103%, 98% and 186% more likely to drive readers to an advertiser Web site. Ads with URLs in the fashion category also did well, producing a 52% bump.

New research from VISTA Print Effectiveness Rating Service, based on an analysis of 833 ads in seven different magazines, reconfirmed that ads with URLs are more likely to drive readers to advertiser sites overall, as well as across the range of magazine genres. Less spectacular gains were found in the financial category, with a 22% lift, and men’s, with a 38% lift.

According to the MPA, the VISTA findings corroborate a meta-analysis of nine earlier studies by Marketing Evolution. This meta-analysis showed that when URLs were included in magazine ads, they boosted the percentage of study subjects who visited the advertiser Web sites 6%, to 19% of the test group.

Monterey’s real estate market, like many areas across the United States, is starting to experience some positive changes according to local real estate agents

From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where some neighborhoods are up substantially this year (Alan J. Heavens, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/10/2008) to hard hit areas of Northern California in Sacramento, Sutter and Yuba which broke out of an entrenched sales slump, posting more home purchases in than in April 2007. (Jim Wasserman, Sacramento Bee, 5/20/2008),  it becomes apparent that more than ever the old real estate adage, "location, location, location" holds quite a bit of truth.

The following are excerpted from that article, which can be read in its entirety online at www.carmelpinecone.com.

Different Marketing, Different Trends

Although sales are picking up, there are segments of the market that are still cool. While multimillion-dollar homes and those at the low end are selling well, sales of midpriced homes are still soft.  “You have the [lower-priced home] market that is active and the high-end market that is active,” Kim DiBenedetto (Alain Pinel Realtors) said. “It’s the stuff in between that is stuck.” 

Mike Canning (Sotheby’s International Realty), who specializes in the sales of high-end properties in Carmel and Pebble Beach, said this year’s first quarter marked the best year he’s had since 1999 and 2000. Included in his sales was the Butterfly House in Carmel, which closed escrow April 22 for $9.3 million. But even in a high-end market such as Pebble Beach, there are multiple submarkets. For instance, oceanfront homes are selling extremely well, while the more average homes in that area are not. “It’s dangerous to generalize, because the Monterey Peninsula is not one market,” Canning said.

Like Canning, John Saar (John Saar Properties) said he’s having little problem selling unique, properties listed at $5 million or more. “I see the high end being the most durable part of the market,” Saar said. “If you have the right property, then you are in the game.”

At the other end of the spectrum, Realtor Michael Kirch, who specializes in selling foreclosures in the Seaside area, said he has 10 houses in escrow, a healthy number.  While he’s seen an upswing in the sale of homes in the $200,000 to $400,000 range, homes in the $500,000 to $700,000 range are not selling as quickly.  While many experts agree the market is improving, some believe it will be a while before sales take off.

Canning said he sees little change happening for the remainder of 2008. “I think the bottom of each of the markets will suffer all the way into late 09,” he said. “I also think the top of the markets will continue to enjoy demand.

Live Serenely on the Central Coast

This exquisite Paso Robles property is approximately 9.2 acres in a peaceful setting. This home, presented by David Crabtree of Home and Ranch Realtors®, offers 6 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, formal dining room, office, game room and family room. Additional amenities include tile floors, wet bar, cathedral ceilings, skylights, fireplace and pellet stove. Step outside and enjoy beautiful views as your stroll over to the pool and hot tub. This Central Coast estate is perfect for entertaining or just relaxing with a spacious patio and built-in BBQ. There is also a barn and a huge shop. Must see to fully appreciate.

Offered at $1,299,000

David Crabtree, Broker/Owner
Home and Ranch, Realtors®
(805) 459-9261
Email: david@homeanranch.com

Newer Craftsman-Style Home Featured on Cover of Marin County Homes Magazine

Stunning home on great street with curb appeal in San Anselmo! Marcine Engel of First Marin Realty presents this 5 bedroom, 4.5 bath newer Craftsman-style home on .61 acres. Formal living room with stone fireplace and formal dining room. Huge family room with stone fireplace and large sunny terrace with views to Mt. Tamalpais. Master suite on private level with private patio. Extensive hardwood floors, state-of-the-art appliances in gourmet kitchen. Mt. Tam views from patios, terraces and porch. Granite and limestone throughout. Elevator from two-car garage. Short walk to schools. Air conditioning.  Wine cellar.

View more photos at www.9IndianRock.com

Offered at: $2,495,000

Presented by Marcine Engel
First Marin Realty
415-380-4366

Email: marcine@firstmarin.com

 
Serving Marin County for over 30 years
Independent and Family Owned
Also Serving the Greater Bay Area as First San Francisco Realty