Along with the beautiful early spring weather, the Bay Area’s housing market is gradually starting to warm up, too. We’re off to a much more robust and healthy start this year, and it’s not just in the lower price ranges. The mid-to-upper level market is picking up from Silicon Valley through the Peninsula and up [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Real Estate News’
Sellers Now Have a Short Window of Opportunity
Super Bowl Sunday can’t come fast enough for the real estate market. Historically, this is when the floodgates open and sellers start putting their homes on the market. Good news for Buyers but not as good for Sellers. Read what is happening in the Bay Area below. “What’s happening? First-time buyers are rushing to take [...]
New Years blog-dedicated to Bobbie and Debbie who will be the best breast cancer survivors ever!
2009 is wrapping up and most people can’t wait for it to be over. Maybe part of this is finishing the Holiday Season. It’s been said that the gathering of the clan brings a rush of adrenaline to the calmest. Holiday stress comes in several forms. First there is the last minute shopping that the [...]
Monday Morning Market Update – Wk#49 December 14, 2009
Half Moon Bay to Montara had 8 new listings this week with 4 of them listed over $999,000. Total active listings are 104 as the year is winding down to a close. 2 properties went sale pending this last week with one that was listed over a million and the other under $550,000. YTD sales [...]
Monday Morning Market Update November 30, 2009 Wk#47
Buyers were out again this weekend and seriously looking with their agents. This will be the time that will be remembered as having some of the best real estate deals. Inventory is low due to homes taken off the market as the Holiday Season approaches. Still a Buyers Market – HALF MOON BAY through MONTARA,CALIFORNIA with [...]
Monday Morning Market Update November 9th Wk#45
This weekend the open houses were very well attended. Lots of new buyers looking to get in on the Tax Credit extention with an April 2010 deadline to enter into a purchase contract. Maybe we’ll see more buyer anxiety thou it is still looking like a buyers market in the Half Moon Bay communities. Pacifica [...]
It’s on the Table by Rick Turley, Coldwell Banker SF Bay Area President
Rick has given us the update on the possibility of extending the tax credit. Also check the market news from last week for the coast and San Mateo County. “There’s no question that the government’s first-time homebuyer tax credit has spurred a significant amount of sales this year. Latest estimates show that some 400,000 additional [...]
Monday Morning Market Update October 19, 2009 Wk#42
Still a Buyers Market – HALF MOON BAY through MONTARA,CALIFORNIA with just under half of the listings listed at over 1 Million. The Million plus price range is finally seeing activity. Active Listings-120 Single Family Homes. 52 listed over 1 Million, 15 listed at $900,000 to 1Million.Pending Sales-41 with 11 listed under $600,000 and 10 [...]
Tax Credit: Expand? Extend? Expire? Market Update by Rick Turley, President CB SF Bay Area
The question everyone is asking is, will the government expand, extend or simply let the $8,000 first time home buyer tax credit expire. With just over 50 days left until it is expires, the debate is on and everyone is anxiously awaiting the result. Whichever side you take on the debate, what you can’t deny [...]
Is the Patient-Buyers & Sellers-Finally out of Intensive Care?
We’re seeing signs that the Coast has hit the bottom of the Real Estate Market. We are getting some multiple offers on well priced homes in the lower price range. Investors are looking at the Coast for their second and third homes. Doesn’t everyone want a Cottage at the beach? So let’s look at what Rick Turley has [...]
