The fast-growing Wine Country Group by Better Homes and Gardens has become one of Sonoma County’s largest real estate firms with its recent acquisition of three local Pacific Union offices.
The six-month-old Wine Country Group has absorbed the Santa Rosa and Petaluma Pacific Union offices that had been owned since 2006 by Coralee Barkela and Suzanne Drace, shown in this photo. Barkela is on the left.
This riverfront getaway was built about 1957, and the seller owned it more than 30 years. It features views of the redwoods and the Russian River, and includes an adjacent 4,000-square foot parcel. The buyers, two Oakland families, plan to share the property as a second home.
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