Author Archives: JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

About JN Real Estate Appraisal & Valuation Services

Professional real estate appraiser Amateur photographer

Cloudy with a chance of change?

Posted on March 23, 2019

After a strong year-end burst of job growth, January 2019 started with a big, loud boom. Not a good boom… a drop of 77,900 in Bay Area employment. February 2019 saw some recovery, but the picture is a bit muddy. … Continue reading →

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Is It Really That Calm Around the Bay?

Posted on January 23, 2019

Was at a large meeting today with appraisers from all over. Consensus about 2019? There is none. Lots of speculation about the direction of the real estate market in the coming months. We will have to wait and see. Saturday … Continue reading →

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Another New Year

Posted on January 7, 2019

Welcome to 2019! Statistical data always takes a while to go from real world to data gathers to data analysts like me. Some November 2018 data is available for housing prices and employment plus full year residential mortgage rates. It … Continue reading →

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Toppish?

Posted on August 1, 2018

I’ve added a few new graphs showing home listing/sale and price trends for San Mateo County. Let’s be clear that affordability is an issue here. It’s not a debate. To purchase the average sale price home ($1,777,341 in June 2018), … Continue reading →

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Hardly a Tsunami

Posted on July 26, 2018

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we get tsunamis all the time… fog tsunamis… With all the news about the economy doing so well you’d expect a wave of new employment, but not so fast. June 2018 employment stats … Continue reading →

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Photo Challenge: All-Time Favorites

Posted on May 31, 2018

Well… good-bye to photo challenges! Not my favorite photo, have too many favorites, but a nice pic and a parting thought about time passing by.

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Photo Challenge: Place in the World

Posted on May 9, 2018

An interesting question is keeping me from work this morning. Erica V. asked “…explore what it means to find your place in the world. Where’s your safe space?” I thought about it for a moment and quickly settled on two … Continue reading →

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