Greetings from Florence, Italy! While enjoying a much-needed vacation to close out the summer, we were blown away by the richness of culture and architecture. It made us want to look for Tuscany in the Bay Area. What we found were these marble and brick villas with eye-popping price tags!
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We met Benjamin and Golnaz in 2020 and helped them buy their first home together. This week, they got married in Mendocino and invited us to be a part of the ceremony. Kevin was the wedding officiant, and Bora served as a flower cat. The weather was amazing, and we were surrounded by friendly people and natural beauty. We’re so grateful to be included in our clients’ life milestones!
Early in the new year, we paid a visit to Jacksonville, Florida, one of the fastest growing cities in the country, and toured new developments in different areas. One of those areas is Nocatee, a 6,000-acre development with more than 10,000 housing units located in Ponte Vedra, a short drive from Jacksonville. The development also features commercial space — retail and offices — schools, and parks.
The 3,700 sq ft home pictured here was built by David Weekley Homes and is listed at an accessible price of $1.167M. The median home price per square foot in Jacksonville is around $200, compared to an average of $900 in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Francisco counties). But remember, we get what we pay for in the Bay Area — and the grass is always greener, as they say…
According to research noted in Psychology Today, helping others may “benefit the giver more than the recipient on a neurobiological level.” With that lingering in our minds, Kevin and I had a chance to visit our client's new hospitality business early this year in Costa Rica. Their retreat is in a jungle — literally next to a waterfall, where they get all of their water.
We had a chance to help them fix up the water system and refurbish some furniture. Now Kevin is thinking of creating renewable electricity from the waterfall as well.
We loved being invited by our clients to be part of their super cool project!
We hope our holiday card finds you well. Because we can all use a good smile these days, we thought we’d share some “behind-the-scenes” photos. We wish you an ocean of happiness and a blissful new year!
