You probably haven’t noticed because of all the rain, but I’ve been keeping an eye on the calendar for you. Would you believe that we’re more than half way through the first quarter of 2017 already? Despite the torrential rains, flooding, land slides, and innumerable road closures, our local real estate market is slogging through […]
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Santa Cruz Real Estate Update December 2016
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – and it may not be white, but at least it’s wet! I heard that the Sierras have seen the most snow this fall than any time in the past 30 years – so is it time to hit the slopes? Not for me – not yet, […]
California 2017 Real Estate Market Forecast
Last week, I attended a presentation by Leslie Appleton-Young, who is the Chief Economist for the California Association of Realtors (CAR). She gave a very interesting presentation, most of which was actually about what’s happened so far in 2016, finishing up with a California 2017 real estate market forecast. Listening to what she has to […]
How to Make Sense of Bay Area Home Prices
If you’re like most people, you’re probably wondering how to make sense of Bay Area home prices? These are crazy times for the California real estate market, there’s no doubt about it. We just hit a new record median home price in Santa Cruz county – the median home price in May 2016 for single […]
Santa Cruz Real Estate Update May 2016
Did you see the newspaper headline from a couple of weeks back? Here it is, check it out: This is the basically the same news I’d brought you a week before, with my Santa Cruz Real Estate Market Update for April. But that’s yesterday’s news – so how is the market doing today, another month […]
Santa Cruz Real Estate Update April 2016
It wasn’t supposed to happen until 2022. That’s what they said after it all went south, anyway. We weren’t supposed to see home prices like we’d been seeing for 15, 16 years – well it just goes to show what “they” know, doesn’t it? The big news in the Santa Cruz Real Estate Update April […]
Santa Cruz Real Estate Update February 2016
February is the month in Santa Cruz when the real estate market starts to warm up. The darkest days of winter are behind us, and the sun is getting a little warmer – or, this year, perhaps a little too warm this early in the season! But is the real estate market feeling the heat? […]
Santa Cruz Real Estate Update January 2016
I can hardly believe it – another new year. Surprising I can’t believe it, as it’s something that happens, every year, pretty much like clockwork. This year though feels like it has a lot of promise – it’s been raining, the economy appears to be solidly on the mend, and it’s an election year, and […]