Fab '40s 5K Run/Walk

It is no exaggeration to say that Alzheimer's disease affects millions of Americans. Odds are that, even if you don't have anyone in your family with Alzheimer's, you know someone who has. In order to support the families and caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease, the East Lawn Memorial Park will hold its 6th Annual 5K walk/run through the scenic Fab 40's neighborhood this Saturday, July 26. 

More than 1200 people are expected to participate in this popular event. The course starts and ends in East Lawn Memorial Park. The main part of the course is back and forth along M Street, with a loop around next to East Portal Park. With the tree-lined streets and the exquisite architecture of Fab '40s homes, this is truly a gorgeous way to support a great cause. 

Registration is $35 for adults, and $16 for the kids' fun runs. For more information and to register online, go to fab40s5k.org or call (916) 492-8966.

4th of July Parade in East Sac's Fab 40's

This year will be another great 4th of July parade in East Sac's Fab 40's!

We will start on 41st Street between J and M and sometime around 11:00 we will roll out in a large, neighborly mob up the block to J Street, down 42nd Street to Folsom and then back up 41st Street.

I'm not sure what makes this event so magical, but it is. There is no marching band, baton twirling troupes, fancy cars, groups of Kiwanis/Rotary Club/Fraternal Order of anything. It will be neighbors on foot, bike, wagon, motorized beer cooler or other crazy contraptions. Some people will dress up in red, white and blue, some people will dress up like Uncle Sam. Aside from a firetruck and some great front yard parties, there is very little organization that the casual observer can see. 

The vast majority of people that go to this 4th of July Parade aren't going to watch the parade roll past them, they are there to walk side by side with hundreds of fellow neighbors the whole route. I guess that is what makes this parade so special. We aren't going there to watch it, we are going there to be a part of it.

I do love my neighborhood!

East Sac Garden Tour

This weekend, take Mom out and show her the best and most inspirational gardens the Fab 40's has to offer at the 16^th Annual East Sac Garden Tour. As stated on the tour’s website, from 10am-4pm on May 10^th and 11^th:

“Tour seven (7) beautiful and inspiring gardens in Sacramento’s ‘Fabulous 40s’ neighborhood and join us for a delicious luncheon at our Tea Garden at Sutter Lawn Tennis Club as well as the new addition of food trucks at David Lubin near the boutiques. Stroll along the tree-lined streets and beautiful homes to view a variety of lush and creative gardens.”

Presale tickets for the tour are $20 per person 12 and older, and luncheon tickets are an additional $15. They may be used either day of the tour. Tour ticket prices increase to $25 the weekend of the tour. All profits from the event will go to benefit the enrichment and academic programs at David Lubin Elementary School. To buy tickets, and for more information, go to www.eastsacgardentour.com.

1216 47th Street in the Fab 40's of East Sac has Just Sold

We had this property listed for a while and decided that we should take it off the market for a little bit to refresh the listing.

Wouldn't you know it, just two days after taking it off the market we got two offers! Since it was off market when we accepted the offers, you won't be able to see the sale in the standard MLS, but it was still a great sale!

4701 M Street Just Sold!

I just got to hand off the keys for the wonderful single story home in Fab 40's of East Sac at 4701 M Street.

These clients found me on my web site (well, her mom found me and passed my name on) and I was able to help them make the big move down from beautiful, but rainy Seattle. I had lived up there for many years and love being back in the sun and warmth of Sacramento.

They have been some of the nicest clients to work with. I been blessed with a great run of clients and it really does make my job such a pleasure. 

Welcome to the city of Perfect Spring Weather!

Just Sold 1348 40th Street in the Fab 40's of East Sac

I had the great pleasure of helping a wonderful client purchase this home in the Fab 40's of East Sac. It has been completely rebuilt and is in great condition and is as cute as can be.

This is one of those properties that made it onto my short list as soon as it came on the market and I knew that I wanted to be the agent to help a buyer get this home. I think that my client got a great deal on this home, especially given the great condition, location and charm.

Best of all, my client was a true joy to work with through the whole process!

I do love my job!

40th Annual Holiday Home Tour

Over the course of 40 years, the Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour has become a favorite Christmastime event, pairing the gorgeous architecture of historical homes in the Fab 40's with equally beautiful decorations installed by local designers. This year's featured homes include a stately Tudor, a remodeled plantation-style home and more.

This coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday (December 6-8), attendees will get to tour homes starting from 38th Street (between M Street and Stockton Blvd.) and winding through East Sac to 47th Street. Starting from either direction, self-guided walking tours take approximately two hours. The price of a ticket ($25 in advance, $30 on the day of the event) includes one-time admission inside each of the five homes on the tour. Given the weather reports, make sure that you dress warm, especially if you plan on walking this one!

After the tour, the Holiday Cafe and Gift Shop will be set up in case you're in need of warm, delicious treats or hand-crafted gifts. For more information, go to sacredhearthometour.com or call (916) 556-5050.

1216 47th Street in East Sacramento Just Listed For Sale!

I had another great listing go live today!

1216 47th Street is a stunning NEW CONSTRUCTION home from the ground up in the Fab 40's! This home is great for entertaining with a formal living room with fireplace, formal dining room, large chef's kitchen with island and prep sink, breakfast bar and an open great room with built-in's and wine fridge. 

There is a downstairs mini-master with en-suite bathroom and sliding doors leading to a spacious back yard. 

The home has a grand master suite where you can escape with a large soaking tub, dual shower heads and a huge walk in closet. 

There is plenty of honed granite countertops and marble used throughout. With 9' ceilings, 8' doors and lots of arches, this home is very open & bright!

See more pictures and details at www.47th.East-Sac.com

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6th Annual Fab 40's 5K Run/Walk

If you're anything like me, you'll come up with any excuse to wander through the Fab 40's and admire the amazing homes there. So what better excuses could there be than supporting the Alzheimer's Association and getting some exercise?

This coming Saturday, July 27 is the 6th Annual Fab 40's 5K Run/Walk. According to the event website, "We want to increase the understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and its devastating effect on families. We feel the need to provide an opportunity for affected families to meet and interact with one another." In order to help those afflicted with the disease, their caregivers and families, all proceeds from the event will go directly to the Alzheimer's Association (www.alz.org).

Registration begins at 7am at East Lawn Memorial Park (4300 Folsom Blvd.). Starting at 8:30amd, the 5K route will take participants through the Fab 40's neighborhood along M Street and back through the park. And just in case that isn't enough for you, custom event T-shirts, refreshments, music and awards will also be provided. And while you're in the park, be sure to visit the new Alzheimer's Memorial Wall, the first of its kind in the nation, modeled on the Vietnam Wall.

Entry fees are $35 for adults (the early discounts have passed); $16 for all Kid's Fun Run participants. For more information and to register, call (916) 492-8966 or visit fab40s5k.org/.

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1210 40th Just Sold in the Fab 40’s of East Sac

It took us longer than we expected, but we have finally closed on the sale of this amazing home at 1210 40th Street. 

This is an amazing house that was completely rebuilt from the ground up. These builders have more projects like this one coming up in East Sac in the coming months. Contact me for more details on these other projects...

Here is the listing description for 1210 40th Street:

After crossing the expansive front lawn, pause for a moment at the front porch to enjoy one of the most premier neighborhoods in Sacramento. You can rest assured that the builders have put every effort into making this a perfect new home for you. 

From the top to bottom of this property you will find details like the stately Spanish tile roof with a two foot wide soffit or shade tolerant Kentucky Bluegrass for the new lawn because this property has such majestic trees.

Cross the threshold and start to take in the details of mahogany solid core doors, travertine tile and hand scraped hickory hardwood floors. Wander through the formal dining room and into the expansive kitchen with marble counters and discover that every drawer and cupboard in the house has soft close mechanisms. 

The large and open kitchen features top of the line appliances with the centerpiece being a Bertazzoni forty eight inch double oven with six burners and a griddle. The forty eight inch refrigerator, dual zone wine fridge and prep island with its own large sink make this the perfect place to create your next culinary masterpiece. 

The kitchen opens up into the breakfast nook and spacious living room with the first of two gas fireplaces, making this home a cozy retreat during the cool winter months. Twelve feet of sliding glass doors bring in plenty of natural light and lead to the back patio and tranquil back yard.

Wind down the back hall past the downstairs powder room with its beaten copper sink and reclaimed hardwood backsplash to the downstairs mini-master with ensuite bath and its own fireplace. Perfect as a first floor bedroom, a home office or a den with large windows to take in the view of the neighborhood. 

Walk up the majestic stairs, past the laundry room and into the upstairs mini-master and take in the view from the Juliet balcony through the eight foot wide sliding doors. This room’s bathroom features Crema Marfil marble flooring, shower and counter with Honey Onyx backsplash and insets in the floor. 

Two more spacious bedrooms upstairs ensure that no one has to feel cramped in this home. These bedrooms share a Jack and Jill bathroom with Belle Foret fixtures, marble counters and travertine shower and flooring. 

Finally you come to the last room in the house and can instantly tell that the term “master suite” is properly used here. The first thing that catches your attention is the twelve foot wide sliding doors that lead to the grand, seven by eighteen foot balcony, complete with ceiling fan for those warm summer nights. The large his and her walk in closets are only overshadowed by the master bath that will make you feel like you are in your own private spa retreat. 

Even the garage of this home is special with its pass through access to L Street, one of only a few of its kind in East Sac. This home even has a basement, ready to be made into the perfect wine cellar. 

Completing the tour you realize that 1210 40th Street is the type of property that people think of when they say “The Fab 40’s”! 

See more details about this listing on my real estate site.



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1457 47th Street Just Sold

I helped my investors purchase this property at 1457 47^th Street back in June last year. It was a small 2 bed, 1 bath home in a great Fab 40's location in East Sac.

When they completed the construction it was a four bedroom plus a den, three and a half bath home. The demand was so high for this great home that we had it under contract months before the construction was completed.

We just closed the transaction after a bit of challenges with the loan and we are all happy to have completed this transaction.

1462 46th Street Just Sold (a while back)

OK, I have been very busy and when that happens, my blog suffers. Apparently, I don't even post about when I have a transaction close.

Back on February 26th my clients purchase this wonderful property at 1462 46th Street. This is a great location in the Fab 40's with a large lot, a pool and a two car garage. The new owners will add on to the home and remodel it and make it the prefect home for them.

I look forward to seeing what they do!

You can see the full details of this home on my real estate site here.

1457 47th Street is Almost Done

The builders of 1457 47th Street are almost done with this amazing transformation!
In a few weeks we should be able to bring it to market and sell this great Fab 40's home.
It is going to be 3223 square feet with 4-5 bedroom and 3.5 bathrooms.

1210 40th Street New Listing!

The amazing property at 1210 40th Street is going to go live is the MLS today.

I'll be holding it open both Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 to 4:00. Please stop by and see the high quality of the craftsmanship of these builders.

You can see the full listing details of this property at www.Fab40.East-Sac.com

Sacramento A Seller's Market Again – Nathan Sherman on Fox 40 News

A little over a week ago Fox Dennis Shanahan of Fox 40 News interviewed me to talk about how Sacramento has become a seller's market again. This is something that us in the industry have known for most of the year, but now all the market data is out to support that.

The market analyst's over at Zillow had identified Sacramento as the third hottest seller's market in the country!

You can see the two minute news spot here.

I had the good fortune to have the whole video shot in my upcoming listing at 1210 40^th Street. This is an amazing 5 bedroom 4.5 bathroom home in the Fab 40's of East Sac.

Here is the text summary from the Fox 40 site, but much more was covered in the video.

Real estate website Zillow recently listed Sacramento as the third hottest sellers’ market in the country, right behind San Francisco. San Jose was listed number one.

FOX40 visited with Nathan Sherman of Dunnigan Realtors in Sacramento, who confirmed what the Zillow ranking suggests.

“There is not nearly enough inventory, and buyers are struggling to get a home under contract,” Sherman said of the Sacramento market.

Year-over-year detached resale home prices in Sacramento County have been consistently positive over the past six months, according to DataQuick. The median price in November was $185,000. That is 17-percent higher than the price in November of last year. Potential buyers are finding themselves in bidding wars.

Sherman also said it is not uncommon these days to call a listing agent when a house comes on the market, and learn that the agent already has ten offers in.

People waiting for the right time to buy a home might be well advised to start looking soon, before things heat up even more.

As Sherman put it, “People were waiting for the bottom of the market. That has come and gone.”

http://fox40.com/2012/12/13/sacramento-a-sellers-market-again/

1344 39th Street Just Sold

To complete my Just Sold catch up series, we just closed on 1334 39^th Street in the Fab 40's of East Sac!

This is an amazing 3100 square foot 5 bed, 3 bath home on a large lot. I got my client in contract on this property back in mid-September while the property was still under construction. We just closed on Monday and I was able to hand off the keys to this amazing new home.

Some times in this competitive market we have to get it under contract long before it hits the market...

You can see more details about the home here. 

905 46th Street Just Sold

OK, it has been over a month since my last post almost a month since 905 46^th Street has closed. I have been very busy and the idea that the holidays is a slow season is again proving to not be the case for me. I'm not complaining, I'm just justifying my neglect of my blog :)

905 46^th Street is a great property that my favorite builders have done a complete remodel and addition to. It fits well into East Sac and it's location just outside of the Fab 40's is perfect.

I have some other projects coming up with these builders and know of many other that will be coming on the market, so give me a call if you would like a home that is pretty much new construction nestled into the old world charm of East Sac.

Click here to see more details about this house.  

1457 47th Street Construction

This great project at 1457 47^th Street in the Fab 40's is about to enter my favorite phase. Where there is framing built out on the second story but no windows installed. I love going in as a break in a day of working on deals for clients and just hanging out a second story window and watching the neighborhood.

I can’t do it yet because the stairs aren’t installed and I’m not about to bother the work crew with a guy in slacks climbing around on their ladder…

1210 40th Street Construction

The new front door is on 1210 40^th Street and the insulation is going into the walls and ceiling. Stucco should be applied soon and drywall will go up and then it will really start to feel like the house that it is becoming.

I’ll get to hold this Fab 40's home open before I know it (assuming that someone doesn’t buy it before it’s finished…)

1210 40th Street Under Construction

Work is moving along nicely at 1210 40^th Street in the Fab 40's of East Sac. All the windows are in place as well as all new plumbing and electrical.

They are getting ready to do the first rough coat of stucco on the exterior, the interior is ready for the drywall and the roof has been loaded with the tiles. It is starting to feel more and more like a house instead of a construction site. The finishes will come together quickly from here on out.