East Bay Area Real Estate

Q2 entry-level housing affordability up to 48% The percentage of households that could afford to buy an entry-level home in California stood at 48 percent in the second quarter of 2008 compared with 24 percent for the same period a year ago, according to a report Tuesday by the California Association of Realtors (eastbaybusinesstimes.com)
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SFGate : Trends in Home Prices in the Nine Bay Area Counties Search the database to see how home prices have changed in the nine Bay Area counties over the past one, four and eight years, and since each market’s respective peak. Ending period is March 2008. (Source: DataQuick Information Systems)

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Barbara Hendrickson and Cindy Wilson, REALTORS at Red Oak Realty have an interesting post on their new blog  JustSellMyHouseBlog.com about the Real Estate Market in 2008.
We have all heard the words “Change” and “Challenge” a lot lately, particularly in every political campaign out there … well, they are good ones to apply to this year’s [...]

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Brett Weinstein, of Realty Advocates, writes about how North Berkeley and Rockridge have defied all reports of doom and gloom … “Many neighborhoods have experienced near-zero sales in July and August, so the backlog of unsold houses will join the numerous new listings that are likely to come on the market in the next two [...]

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