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Sonoma County Home Sales Report

I plead guilty to liking numbers. I don’t track the Giants batting averages, but I do know how much houses in Sonoma County are selling for. I also know which areas are hot and which could use more buyers. As a potential buyer or seller of a home in Sonoma County, watching these trends for [...]

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Sonoma County Real Estate Trends

Sonoma County Residential Sales

I’ve been diving into 2010 residential sale details trying to understand the Sonoma County real estate market for myself and my clients. The result that is clearest and a surprise to me was adding 2010 results to the chart of sales for the past four years. This chart shows clearly that we seem to be [...]

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Sonoma County Luxury Homes

Just for the sake of argument, let’s call a million bucks a luxury cut-off for Sonoma County homes. Sure there are less expensive homes that are luxurious and there are far more expensive estate properties with dated, badly designed older homes that fail any test of Sonoma County luxury. Still, this assumption is for the [...]

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Sonoma County Real Estate Sales Trends July 2008

REO sales continue to drive the Sonoma County residential housing market. In June 175 REO properties were snapped up by eager investors and home buyers. That represents 37% of the Sonoma County real estate sales activity for the month. REO sale values ranged from $110,000 to $1,065,000 with an average price of $317,000. The biggest [...]

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Sonoma County REO – To Overbid or not to Overbid…2008

REO’s Rule! How does three Sonoma County REO sales per day since January 1 sound? How about five per day since May 1? I last wrote about Sonoma County REO properties in January of this year. At that point fewer than 60 REO properties had been sold in the prior six months, or an average [...]

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REO

REO is the acronym for Real Estate Owned. Owned by banks, insurance companies, mortgage companies, and anyone else who ends up holding the deed when foreclosures are finished and there were no bidders (holders of ten or more of these properties are listed in the box on the left). These are the reluctant owners who [...]

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Has Sonoma County Real Estate Hit Bottom? (from early 2008)

I have worked my fingers to the bone assembling Sonoma County residential sales and activity records for the last four years to answer the question in the title. Are we at the bottom? In order to get the broadest view possible I chose all residential sales in the county which mixes condos, single family homes, [...]

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