Category Archives: SF Bay Area Housing Trends

Poking Along at Year End

Updated data on November 2013 residential real estate prices in the SF Bay Area here https://graphicrealestate.wordpress.com/sf-bay-area-housing-trends/ and November 2013 SF Bay Area employment trends here https://graphicrealestate.wordpress.com/bay-area-employment-trends/ for the data starved. It’s the year-end craziness so I’m a little outta focus. … Continue reading

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Fall Sunset

While the setting sun painted the Pacific sky into a lovely picture last week the housing prices in the Bay Area were not as rosy. Median home prices squeaked out a small gain in October but sales volume remains low. … Continue reading

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Without Conviction

Securities brokers like to say price movement without much sales volume is a market moving “without conviction.” We seem to be in that mode in the Bay Area home market right now. Sales volume dropped in September and prices are … Continue reading

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Bloom Off the Rose???

The housing market is cyclical. It is not consistent from area to area. Prices go up and sometimes, as we know all too well, they go down. The Bay Area median home price (all homes and condos) dropped in August … Continue reading

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One Way Prices

The Bay Area median home price trend remains positive. (See July 2013 data in the SF Bay Area Housing Trends Page above) The big year-over-year percentage gains are reflective of the depressed prices of a year ago when short-sales and … Continue reading

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SF Bay Housing May 2013

Added a new page with a table and chart I compile on median home prices in the nine county SF Bay Area. Home prices dipped during and after the 2007-2009 recession and the median figure in many counties was pounded … Continue reading

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