<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Living in The Bay Podcast]]></title><description><![CDATA[Living in The Bay Podcast]]></description><link>https://www.livinginthebaypodcast.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:40:19 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.livinginthebaypodcast.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[How AI Is Reshaping Bay Area Real Estate: A Conversation with Sean Chen of Gaea Realty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Meet Sean Chen Sean is the founding broker of Gaea Realty in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been in real estate for 13 years, and over the past nine months he and his team have closed $400 million in sales. In this episode of Living in the Bay, I sat down with Sean to talk about how AI is changing the way agents work, what it can never replace, and why he is more excited than afraid about what comes next. AI That Does the Work Agents Actually Do Sean's first point surprised me. He thinks...]]></description><link>https://www.livinginthebaypodcast.com/post/how-ai-is-reshaping-bay-area-real-estate-a-conversation-with-sean-chen-of-gaea-realty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad02634cbb6543b8a20c292</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:15:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/Gqoc86MyPYE" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Shay Phillips</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buying in Monterey County? An Area-by-Area Guide with Pete Ruiz]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monterey County offers everything from $700,000 starter homes in Seaside and Salinas to $50 million estates in Pebble Beach, and the right area depends on how you plan to live. To break it all down, I sat down with Pete Ruiz of Ruiz Group, whose team serves Monterey County and San Benito County. Over the last 12 months, Pete and his team closed 140 transactions and $200 million in sales volume. Pete and I worked together on a deal at the Holman Building in Pacific Grove, and I saw firsthand...]]></description><link>https://www.livinginthebaypodcast.com/post/buying-in-monterey-county-an-area-by-area-guide-with-pete-ruiz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acc9d716291b50189afdcd7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:50:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79aiTkRT3rM" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Shay Phillips</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Top 3 Places to Buy a Short-Term Rental in Lake Tahoe (And One to Avoid)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome back to Living in the Bay. On this episode I sat down with Brandon Koehne, a residential real estate agent born and raised in San Jose who's been in the business for eleven years and just earned his broker's license this year. Brandon and his wife run a team doing fifteen to twenty deals a year, roughly fifteen to twenty million in volume, with an average sale price around a million dollars. He also does a lot of business in and around Lake Tahoe, which made him the perfect guest to...]]></description><link>https://www.livinginthebaypodcast.com/post/top-3-places-to-buy-a-short-term-rental-in-lake-tahoe-and-one-to-avoid</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ab1b0e7cf38f66195d11f59</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:38:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/a9E-Hm_W418" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Shay Phillips</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a 32-Year Bay Area Real Estate Agent Wants You to Know Before You Buy in The Bay]]></title><description><![CDATA[On the latest episode of Living in The Bay Podcast, I sat down with Meredith Martin, a real estate agent with 32 years of experience across San Francisco and the Reno-Tahoe market. Meredith started her career in South of Market back when nobody wanted to be there, and she has watched the Bay Area go through more than one full cycle of boom, bust, and reinvention. I wanted to pull together a few of the biggest takeaways from our conversation, because a lot of it runs counter to what most...]]></description><link>https://www.livinginthebaypodcast.com/post/what-a-32-year-bay-area-real-estate-agent-wants-you-to-know-before-you-buy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aac4c9bd351bc6bc51590ed</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:29:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="http://youtu.be/qxbSfYUURGE" length="0" type="video"/><dc:creator>Shay Phillips</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>