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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Price per square foot is a useful tool for the real estate industry. Real estate agents use it for informal appraisals and professional appraisers make use of it for formal valuations. For home buyers it’s one way to compare homes of different sizes but similar construction quality. Contractors and architects use it as a shorthand
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Knowing residential pricing trends makes you a smarter buyer. Period. Whether you’re chasing an REO investment or competing against multiple offers for your personal dream house, you need to know what other people are doing. Real estate brokers and agents are very good at protecting the confidentiality of their current offers, so the only way
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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
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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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