Across the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area last year was a puzzle with contrary trends, but the main trend was declining home prices for single-family houses and large areas of depressed sales. However, Bay Area realtors are convinced that a better year is ahead. Looking at the nine-county area, sales of single-family homes in Contra [...]
After they went down the drain, Bay Area housing prices will go up in some parts of the nine-county area, a new forecast coming from Clear Capital says. A healthy real estate market means stabile prices, even when homeowners face different challenges, such as tight credit, and low sales. In a report released at the [...]
Recent studies show that Bay Area homes lost more than 33% of a trillion dollars in value since the financial crisis hit the country four years ago. The numbers calculated by DataQuick are shocking: the loss in home vale in five Bay Area counties from 2007 to 2011 was $387 billion, which is a 33% [...]
Bay Area luxury home sales dropped in November compared to a year ago, according to DataQuick’s latest report issued Wednesday. The drop is mostly due to the holiday season and uncertain economy. DataQuick’s data show a double digit drop in luxury home sales or properties priced above $800,000 in Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda and [...]
More than half of all homes with a mortgage in Solano County are underwater and this is good news, according to Mercury News. An industry study released this week shows 51.1% of Vallejo-Fairfield Metropolitan Statistical Area residential properties with a mortgage in negative equity. Although this is way above the national average, it is still [...]
The Bay Area’s median home price dropped 4% in last due to weak sales activity. DataQuick’s recent report shows that the median price for all houses and condos dropped to $350,000 from $365,000 in September. The price was the lowest in eight months and down nearly 9% from a year ago. The number homes purchased [...]
August was the month of positive numbers when it comes to home sales, as the statistics show a 9.1% rise. However, the jump in home sales doesn’t necessary mean that home prices will go up too, as DataQuick’s recent report highlights. According to the DataQuick report the nine-county Bay Area totaled 7,513 new and resale [...]
The case of Jack and Donna Pfister pictures what is happening these days in the Bay Area housing market. The couple got good news about their bid topping all others on a foreclosure in Vacaville, so they started making preparations for moving in. But several days after the good news, the were told the bank [...]
Properties priced $500,000 or above accounted 35.3% of Bay Area homes sales, the latest report from DataQuick notes. This is a more than 2% decline from June, when properties in that price range accounted 37.7% of all home sales. The All time low for the current cycle was in January 2009, when just 22.7% of [...]
The political show influenced the Bay Area housing market: after strong month-to-month sales gain the area for previous months, July was unusually weak. Home sales were down especially for homes above $500,000 but edged higher than July of 2010. According to DataQuick’s recent report, a total of 6,887 new and resale houses and condominiums changed [...]
