Tomorrow is “Jazz on the Menu”

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For the second year, the Healdsburg Jazz Festival will present dinner at not one, not two, but 15 local restaurants — with different jazz musicians at each one — all to benefit our Education Programs.

Meal seatings 6 – 9 pm on Thursday, Feb. 2. View all participating restaurants and performing musicians. (Despite what the Press Democrat says, there are no $25 tickets necessary.)

Again, the hot spot will be the After-Party at Costeaux - which the PD’s Chris Smith reports is Tony Bennett’s favorite Healdsburg restaurant – with jazz, wine and desserts. This year tickets are only $10, and are now on sale.

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Five Housing Trends in Winter 2012

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From A $7 Million View Home To A $4 Million View?

Purchased for $7,000,000 in 2004, the 4,836 square foot home at 333 Belvedere Avenue across the bridge in Belvedere returned to the market in early 2009 listed for $12,900,000. The property had been been refinanced in 2008 with a first mortgage for $4,650,000 and a second for $2,100,000 to which a third for $1,725,000 was added in July 2009.

Reduced to $9,950,000 in December 2009, to $8,950,000 in 2010, and then withdrawn from the market five months ago last asking $7,500,000, the one-time Blanding Estate Carriage House which was "beautifully transformed into one of Belvedere's most prominent view-oriented residences" (according to its Sotheby's listing) sold on the courthouse steps for $4,175,000 last week. But wait, there’s more.

While we can't currently confirm, and perhaps a bit of bravado is in play, if a plugged-in reader's source is correct, the multi-million dollar property "was bought by a neighbor with the intent of demolishing it to clear the view."

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