Single-family home prices in the San Francisco dropped 0.1% from July to August, but remain down 5.3% on year-over-year basis, the eighth consecutive month of year-over-year declines and down 38.1% from a peak in May 2006, according to the August 2011 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. “In the August data, the good news is continued improvement [...]
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San Francisco Bay Area foreclosures slowed down 7% in September, compared to a moth prior and 10% from this time last year, the Contra Costa Times reported. The article is based on the report released recently by RealtyTrac revealed these numbers, though how long the decline will last is uncertain. The numbers are the following: [...]
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The third quarter of 2011 seems to continue the previous quarter’s trend: Marin homeowners lost 131 properties to foreclosure, virtually unchanged from 130 of Q2. However, this is a slight drop of 5.1% from 138 foreclosures in the same period of 2010, according to figures released Tuesday. Even the number of notices of default — [...]
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San Francisco home sales volume dropped 9.7% on a year-over-year basis in September with 399 recorded sales versus 442 sales a year ago, down 17.6% as compared to August and versus an average August to September seasonal drop of 8.7% over the past seven years. The average number of homes have sold in September since [...]
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Robert Mondavi’s 56-acre Napa Valley is scheduled to be sold at auction on November 16. However, the bids will be sealed but fact is: bids start at $13.9 million. The real estate is located at the center of the huge Napa Valley Mondavi Estate at 5681 Silverado Trail and it features 11,500 square-feet of living [...]
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The 450-units of mixed-income housing near Transbay attracted four development teams, who submitted their proposal before the 3 p.m. deadline October 5. A series of city-owned parcels are going to private developers in the city’s effort to raise money for the Transbay terminal which being billed as the Grand Central Station of the West. This [...]
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Westcore Properties announced it has become the owner of the Greenville Business Center in Livermore for $23.3 million. This commercial real estate includes four buildings totaling 475,099 square-feet and it is rated Class A, The industrial center is located at Lawrence Drive and Las Positas Road, and the 24.81-acre site is about one mile south [...]
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