Category: Market News & Trends

Should I Buy a Vacation Home in California During a Pandemic?

    Update – When we first posted this article in 2020, the vacation home market was going baaa-nanas. Lately, we’ve…

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Market Report: Where are the Last Bastions of Affordable Housing in the Bay Area?

  In this month’s market update, we look at August home sales (still moving at warp speed) and explore where in…

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Market Report: Is the East Bay Heading into a Cooler Market?

  In this month’s market update, we look at July home sales in the East Bay and take the market temperature…

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Market Report: Good news for buyers AND sellers…Life’s a beach!

In this month’s market update, we cover June sales data in your city.  It was about this time last year…

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Market Report: Are We in a Housing Bubble That’s About to Burst?

  In this month’s market update, we cover housing bubbles, the return of open houses, and May sales data in…

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Do You Have Home Buyer Burnout? Don’t Give Up! We Know a Secret…

  In this month’s market update, we cover remedies for buyer burnout. Plus: April home sales in your East Bay…

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March Madness: Oakland’s Median at $1M, Other Homes Sell for 100% Over List

    You know the saying, “mad as a March hare?” We were never really sure what that meant until…

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How to Buy a House in the Bay Area in 2021 – Latest Sales Data Suggests a Frustrating Winter for Homebuyers

  Would it be too dramatic to compare the current real estate market to the Hunger Games? Okay, a slight…

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Leaving California: How to Move 3 Kids, a Dog, Cat, Turtle and the In-Laws to Another State (During a Pandemic)  

  Do you know someone ­– or are you someone – who is leaving California for another state? You’re not…

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East Bay Housing Market Report: Juicy January 2021

  Real estate momentum continued building in the East Bay housing market in January. Our latest analysis of year-over-year real…

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Signs of Things to Come: How Bay Area Home Prices Closed Out the Year

  As a strange year wound down, the real estate market wound up, up up. Bay Area home prices continued…

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East Bay Real Estate Market Report: No Rest for the Holidays

    Did you hear the news? The median price for all homes sold in California topped $700,000 during the…

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