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Sebastopol Is a Seller’s Market

Conventional wisdom says that a balanced real estate market has approximately six months of for sale inventory. The columns we see in this Sebastopol chart show between two and three months of for sale inventory vs homes sold for most months of the year, strongly favoring sellers. If a buyer is firmly set on living […]

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21st Century Home Prices in Sonoma County

Everybody knows that housing prices have gotten out of reach for many. The problem went from bad to terrible relatively recently as illustrated in the chart. In the Beginning Housing prices moderately increased during the first few years of the 2000’s. Beginning in 2003, prices rose rapidly until 2006 as buyers competed for homes using

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Average Sonoma Home Prices

Roller Coaster Pricing Rising home prices are a popular topic for established homeowners. Not so much for renters and others trying to enter 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

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Sonoma Housing Demand Pushes Prices Higher

Full price isn’t high enough. It’s strange to write those words after six months of free-falling home values in 2008 and four years of bumping along a fitful bottom since then. What we are seeing both nationally and locally is that owner occupants and investors have returned to the market in large numbers. We are

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