Rising home prices are a popular topic for homeowners. Not so much for renters and others trying to buy property in a challenging market. This century witnessed prices plummet in 2008 after the financial crisis. Since the market bottom in 2011 prices have shown a steady rise year over year. Covid helped shape a new …
Last year, 31 people paid less than $300,000 to purchase a single family home in Sonoma County. Almost all were in lower Russian River or west county area. By contrast, the 10 lowest price homes that have come on the market since January 1, 2021 start at 479K and go to $685,000. Fortunately, for bargain …
Country living has a vivid place in the American imagination. You might be toiling in a cubicle today, but in your heart you are already planting the deep, rich beds of asparagus that you’ll be eating in your retirement. While you answer the next call stacked up in the queue, you can just feel the …
Sebastopol recorded 24 residential sales in June which helped bring the first half of 2011 to a close with 102 homes sold. That matches nearly exactly the figures from the first half of 2010, but without the First Time Home Buyers Tax Credit that drove many buyers into the market in 2010 in search of …
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 …