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Lost In The Fog
January home sales in the Bay Area followed the year-end December trend. We seem to be lost in the fog. Prices keep rising with a 26%+ increase on a year-over-year basis but sales volume dropped nearly 15% over the same … Continue reading
Where Have All the Sellers Gone?
It’s like blossoms in a drought… you see them, but just a lot fewer than normal. I noticed it a while ago: the corner that is normally full of poppies this time of year is barren except for a few … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Community
Is Community like a common unity? People who live in the same area? People who share a common interest? Perhaps community is a group of people who share a unified body of thought? I will leave that up to the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Parade of Lights", California, community, D7000, Gold Country, Image, images, Nikon, parade, Photography, Postaday, Sutter Creek
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand
California is a land of vistas. Many grand vistas. Mountains along the coast. A broad, flat central valley. Mountains along the eastern side of the state. No shortage of places to go up and look down. The highway between Palm … Continue reading
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Tagged CA 74, California, D7000, Image, images, Nikon, Photography, Postaday, State Route 74, vista, Weekly Photo Challenge
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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
Posted in SF Bay Area Housing Trends
Tagged Bay Area Housing, California, economic trends, Economics, Housing Prices, images, Pacifica, Photography, real-estate, sunset
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Great Divide
San Francisquito Creek (Little San Francisco according to one source). It is the dividing line between San Mateo County (left side of picture) and Santa Clara County (right side). The City of East Palo Alto is part of San Mateo … Continue reading
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Tagged California, D7000, East Palo Alto, Image, images, median household income, median income, Nikon, Palo Alto, panaroma, Photography, San Mateo County, Santa Clara County, Tamron
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Fall: Brief Light and Long Shadows
The autumn afternoon vanishes in long shadows quickly and without a sound. I emerge from my office and ask no one in particular, “When did it get dark?” The clock on the mantle ticks relentlessly and without remorse. Taking the … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, California, D7000, Fall, Image, Nikon, Photography, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Shadow, Shadows
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
Dim lights in the distance. It’s still a long walk along the sand within feet of the boiling surf and the rocky cliffs, dark and ominous, above. Does it mean an end to the journey or is it just the … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Eerie, Image, images, Photography, Postaday, San Mateo County, Weekly Photo Challenge
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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
Little Egret
Some days architecture does not stir my creative spirit. I look to landscapes and nature to sharpen my camera’s eye. Living in the SF Bay Area you do not have to travel too far to find enticing vistas or wildlife … Continue reading
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Tagged Burlingame, California, D7000, Egret, Image, images, Little Egret, Nikon, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, Tamron
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