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Rohnert Park Real Estate

Sonoma County Home Affordability Index

Advice for Fence-Sitting Buyers in Sonoma County

If your cousin, brother,  or best friend’s dog was warning about the housing bubble in 2006, I would pay a lot of attention to them today. Unfortunately, almost everyone else missed the bubble  in spite of all sorts of warning signs that we were in an unsustainable market. It’s human nature to go with the [...]

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Florence St in Sebastopol

Santa Rosa Dominates Real Estate Sales

Santa Rosa rules the real estate market in Sonoma County. No city is close in population or number of housing units, so any chart either has to have an extended scale or leave Santa Rosa out of the figures. I made two charts to illustrate just how tough Santa Rosa makes it for the rest [...]

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Rohnert Park Back Yards

Rohnert Park Real Estate

The Rohnert Park real estate market has been dominated by bank owned properties. In 2008 over 50% of transactions were REO sales in Rohnert Park. Recent months have slowed the trend, but a tightness in supply still is a dominant characteristic of the market. It’s not a great time if you bought or refinanced between [...]

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