All Homes #Sold #Sold Pct. $Median Median Pct. 5/09 5/10 Chng May-09 May-10 Chng Alameda 1,477 1,596 8.1% $330,000 $390,000 18.2% Contra Costa 1,694 1,704 0.6% $234,500 $293,750 25.3% Marin 220 264 20.0% $620,000 $675,500 9.0% Napa 121 127 5.0% $370,000 $350,000 -5.4% Santa Clara 1,688 2,164 28.2% $445,000 $525,000 18.0% San [...]
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The National Association of Home Builders announced that houses are becoming smaller, a little less than 100 square feet from 2007. New houses are averaging about 2,438 square feet and probably will drop as builders compete with the cheap foreclosures already saturating the market. From the Wall Street Journal’s Developments blog: “We also saw a decline [...]
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What do you do when you’re in Las Vegas, the biggest real estate glut in the nation, and you need to drum up some kind of interest in thousands of homes? Use tween-dream Justin Bieber’s name. (That alone on Twitter will gain you 25 followers.) KB Homes is trying to cash in on ”Bieber Fever” by offering a chance [...]
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