Buyers & Sellers

Comparing real estate metrics from one year to another can be challenging in a normal housing market. That’s due to possible variability in ...

Some Highlights While home prices vary by local area, they’ve already hit their low point nationally, and now they’re starting to rise ...

A follow up to my blog post five days ago - oh well.  I guess we could have seen this coming. Less than two weeks after its launch, a $300 ...

There are advantages to waiting, and there are advantages to buying now.  This video puts the advantages and disadvantages into a box with a ...

To show folks if the market is turning and by how much, I like to run the stats monthly, and this month I thought I would share.  First, a few ...

There have been a lot of shifts in the housing market recently. Mortgage rates rose dramatically last year, impacting many people’s ability to ...

The very expected Fed interest rate rise of 25 basis points (one-quarter point) materialized this week, but it the Fed also suggested that the peak ...

Here’s Why the Housing Market Isn’t Going To Crash Although prices are down between 14% and 24% in the Bay Area (depending upon county ...

Mortgage applications in the US went up 9% last week.  Increased mortgage applications is an indicator that more buyers will be entering the ...

Mortgage rates took a dip this week, dropping to 6.6% from 6.73% for a 30-year fixed mortgage.  This is likely temporary, however.  ...

HI, Oh Jerome, Jerome, Jerome.  Why have you forsaken ...

The State of California is serious as a heart attack about cities figuring out how to help build the target 2.5 million homes in California over the ...

As is typical every year, Super Bowl Sunday signals the beginning of the real estate spring season.  Inventory begins to flow in near ...

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index for single-family home values within the San Francisco Metropolitan Area – which includes the East ...

Sellers are beginning to test the waters of spring.  Super Bowl Sunday is our traditional beginning of the spring season and just looking at ...

In truth, this has been legal since 2021.  State law in California says that single family zoning no longer exists and that all single family ...