Tag Archives: San Francisco Bay Area

Employment Still Glowing

The Bay Area continues to add jobs at a good pace but growth remains focused in the core high-tech West Bay Counties plus Alameda. Napa and Solano Counties combined for a loss of more than 11,000 jobs year-over-year while Marin … Continue reading

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So Close!

July 2015 Median Home Price Data for the San Francisco Bay Area is now posted to the housing price trends page. It’s taken eight years(!) but we are within $4000 of the June/July 2007 all time high for the Bay … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Creepy

This week we’ve been challenged by Michelle W. to photograph something creepy. There are certainly some things that cause my skin to creep. We won’t get into circus clowns too deeply. Let’s not discuss spiders, either. Ewwwww. Rats? Naw. I … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Beneath Your Feet

I tend to look up. It’s better than tripping over cracks in the sidewalk. Plus, hey, don’t want to break your mother’s back. So, even with that said, I do look down every once in a while. I usually find … Continue reading

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Escalator App to Nowhere

See the June 2015 San Francisco Bay Area Employment Summary here. Job growth continues in the nine-county region. It does appear to be cooling off a bit. The core West-Bay Counties are still out-pacing the counties with more traditional employment … Continue reading

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Not Even a Yawn

I asked Grandkitty Otis what he thought of the June Median Home Price Trend for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Which way will the wind blow?

April saw a pretty goodly-sized bounce in Bay Area median home prices. May, well, in May the wind blew from the east and knocked the figure down a little. If you’re visiting the Bay Area, be sure to check out … Continue reading

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Say Good-Bye to the Old

The trend splitting the Bay Area continued this month but with a little less vigor. The four “high-tech” counties that ring the western, eastern and southern edges of the San Francisco Bay continue to see strong employment growth. The five … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Roy G. Biv

When I think of the colors of the rainbow I hear the word rainbow and I think Judy Garland. I don’t always think in straight lines. Somewhere over the Rainbow has been covered many times. Jane Monheit sings my second … Continue reading

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Photo Challenge: Off-Season

San Francisco is busy during the summer… not so much in the winter. Here are a couple of tourists enjoying the February no-crowd view from Twin Peaks looking north over the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County. Enjoy your off-season! … Continue reading

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