Category Archives: Real Estate
How high can Southern California home prices go?
Source: Orange County Register For 62 straight months, Southern California home prices have gone in one direction. Up. Five years ago, you could snatch up a median-priced condo in Orange and Los Angeles counties for about $280,000, 76...
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Vallejo ranks first in nation’s hottest housing markets
Source: Mercury News The Vallejo-Fairfield market in Solano County is the No. 1 “hottest” in the nation. Vallejo, a city whose reputation has been tarnished through the years by news reports about crime and gangs, has...
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Talking Points
Since 2012, Bay Area home prices have increased an average of 72%, based on market research conducted by Paragon Real Estate Group. It cited dwindling affordability as a symptom of an overheating market. The median Bay Area home price hit a...
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Home price growth sizzles in May
Source: Market Watch Home prices remained hot in May, bolstering owners’ equity but locking many would-be buyers out of the market.Nationally, prices rose 6.6 percent compared to a year ago, according to a home price index released by...
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From ‘Not in my backyard’ to ‘Yes in my backyard’
Source: The Atlantic Real-estate developers are not popular with most of the American public. A recent Stanford paper found that people like developers only slightly more than they like corporate executives. Many progressives object to...
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Falling inventory forces homebuyers to move at fastest pace ever
Source: Housing Wire Housing inventory fell 8.9 percent from last year in the second quarter of 2017, sending homebuyers scurrying to beat the rising competition. Housing inventory dropped for nine consecutive quarters, and is currently...
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