The Market
Marin County & Bay Area Real Estate Markets
Home Values, Appreciation Trends, Market Conditions & Trends, Rents, and Selected Demographic Angles by County February 2017 Survey We have updated our median home price maps for the entire Bay Area by city, for San Francisco by neighborhood, and then specifically for the Marin, Lamorinda & Diablo Valley, and Wine Country markets. To access them, [ More ]
Sonoma County Home Prices and Trends by City
Sonoma County Home Values by City Paragon Real Estate Including 20+ custom charts Sonoma & Napa Median Home Prices Reflecting MLS Sales in 2016 Mouse over map for median price icons Median sales price is that price at which half the sales occurred for more and half for less. It is a very general statistic, [ More ]
The Marin County Real Estate Market at the Start of the New Year
Gold, Google, Soybeans & Marin Home Price Appreciation This first chart is a somewhat lighthearted, but we believe accurate look at how various 2011 investments would have played out through 2016. When calculating appreciation, purchase and sale dates are critical factors, and changing those can alter the results significantly: Using 2011, the last bottom of [ More ]
The Sonoma County Real Estate Market at the Start of the New Year
The Sonoma County Real Estate Market at the Start of the New Year January 2017 Report including 12 custom charts Gold, Google, Soybeans & Sonoma Home Price Appreciation This first chart is a somewhat lighthearted, but we believe accurate look at how various 2011 investments would have played out through 2016. When calculating appreciation, [ More ]
Real Estate Cycles, Interest Rates, Home Values & Appreciation Trends in Marin County
Bay Area Real Estate Cycles since 1984 per the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index The first chart below is a simplified graph based on the Case-Shiller Home Price Index illustrating percentage increases and decreases in prices for Bay Area houses in the higher-price tier. The markets in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo are generally [ More ]
The Marin County Real Estate Market – November 2016 Report
The Marin County real estate market continues to see moderate price increases year over year, driven by a general lack of supply and continued high buyer demand, especially in the more affordable, middle-price ranges. The market is definitely cooler in higher price segments, with increases in the number of luxury homes for sale amid somewhat [ More ]
The Sonoma County Real Estate Market – November 2016 Report
While much of the Bay Area has begun to see cooler real estate markets, the Sonoma market continues to maintain substantial heat, with strong buyer demand and low inventory still the general prevailing situation. Besides the other benefits of living in Sonoma, the relative affordability of homes here when compared to other Bay Area counties [ More ]
Marin County // The Luxury Home Market, Sales & Prices by City, and 6 Market-Heat Metrics
As illustrated above, the market for homes selling for $2 million and above has cooled somewhat over the past year, with the number of active listings climbing, the number of sales dropping, and a big jump in the quantity of listings expiring without selling. This is a general trend in markets around the Bay Area: [ More ]
Sonoma County’s Autumn Market Begins
Sonoma County Median Home Price Appreciation by Quarter and by Year Since 2011, the Sonoma County median house price has appreciated by 85% and its median condo price by 129%. One major factor in such large jumps is that the distressed property crisis plunged Sonoma home prices to unreasonable lows during the recession. For the [ More ]
Marin | Heading into the Autumn Selling Season
Autumn is typically the second busiest selling season of the year, though a relatively short one, running from after Labor Day until mid-November, when the real estate market begins its slide into the winter-holiday slowdown. September is one of the highest months of the year for the number of new listings hitting the market, as [ More ]