June home sales and prices exceeded May’s results in the Bay Area, but still remained below the level set last year. Buyers last month purchased 7,998 new and resale houses and condos last month in the nine-county Bay Area, according to San Diego-based DataQuick. That was up nearly 15 percent [...]
The Bay Area recorded the lowest number of homes sales for the month of May in three years - and the third-lowest in at least 23 years. Included is a link to a story on The Press Democrat’s monthly housing report for May.
April home sales fell to the lowest mark for Sonoma County in three years. Sales dropped 9 percent from last year to 349 single-family homes. The median home price rose almost 5 percent to $329,460.
Each week about 40 borrowers in the county lose their homes. When will it end?
The median price of houses and condos in the nine-county region hit $360,000 in March. That remains 24 percent better than its low point of $290,000 in February 2009.
Californians purchased homes with cash at a record pace last month, and even in Sonoma County the rate was nearly double the average for the last decade. Nearly 31 percent of all houses and condominiums bought in the Golden State in January were purchased without a mortgage, according to San [...]
Foreclosure activity slowed markedly in Sonoma County at the end of last year, but experts expressed skepticism that the decline signals a reduction in distressed properties. The county recorded 443 homes lost to foreclosure in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by DataQuick Information Systems [...]
Sales were down 8 percent in December from a year earlier. The median sales price declined to $375,000, down 1.3 percent from both a month and a year earlier.
Lenders have foreclosed on 1,500 Sonoma County homes thus far this year, a pace that shows few signs of abating. Foreclosures increased 11 percent in the third quarter from the previous three months, according to San Diego-based MDA DataQuick. The pace remains about the same as last year but is [...]
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